| Monotony Fields | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Shape of Despair |
| Cover: | Monotony Fields.jpg |
| Released: | June 15, 2015 |
| Recorded: | 2013–2014 at City Lights Studio & S/Mental Studio |
| Genre: | Funeral doom metal |
| Length: | 74:25 |
| Label: | Season of Mist |
| Producer: | Max Kostermaa Shape of Despair |
| Prev Title: | Shape of Despair |
| Prev Year: | 2005 |
| Next Title: | Alone in the Mist |
| Next Year: | 2016 |
Monotony Fields is the fourth studio album by Finnish funeral doom metal band Shape of Despair, released on June 15, 2015 by Season of Mist as CD digipak and LP.[1] It is the first album to feature Henri Koivula on lead vocals. The song "Written in My Scars" was first released on the EP Written in My Scars, but was re-recorded for this album.
The album continues the atmospheric funeral doom the band has been playing since their first album Shades of.... It is described as "melancholic and atmospheric", with "morose guitar lines" and "tragic ambient keyboards". The death grunts are "masterfully delivered", the female vocals are "gelid" and "angelic".