Monno was formed in 1999 in Lausanne where the 4 original members met in the experimental music scene.

After working together in different projects and recording a demo tape, they started to play live as a quartet. The music in that time was a mix of heavy rock, free jazz & electronic textures. They played their first concert as Monno in 2002 in Berlin, the city they relocated to.

In 2003 Subdeviant Recordings (a subdivision of Conspiracy Records) picked them up and released their debut CD Candlelight Technology. Joined by Canadian bass player Derek Shirley, Monno left on tour for the first time, shattering audiences and sharing stages with Melt Banana and Suicide's Martin Rev.

In 2004, the were invited by LIGHTNING BOLT to join them on tour throughout Europe. Monno starts to write new material for ERROR and brings it on tour with ISIS and JESU, resulting in a live recording of a memorable concert in Ljubljana - fists in the air - The shear inertia of these songs made most self-styled hardcore kids recoil in terror, but the energy coming of that stage warned us Error was not gonna go unnoticed.

ERROR marked a change towards a heavier sound in the music: the sax is played through two guitar amps and fires heavy riffs which don't sound like saxophone any more, the laptop provides dense walls of noise while bass and drums keep massive beats.

In 2007, they did a three-weeks european tour with KNUT and developed new material. They went back in the studio in april 2008 to record GHOSTS, their third full length.

GHOSTS feature ethereal drones, haunted doom-riffs and poisonous beats, creating a dark undertow between nightmarish paranoia and mysterious transcendence.

MONNO´s music is in constant mutation, like a reflection of the times we live in.