{"id":491176,"date":"2026-06-09T19:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T19:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/491176\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T19:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T19:34:12","slug":"of-monsters-and-men-reissue-beneath-the-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/491176\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Monsters And Men Reissue \u2018Beneath The Skin\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2025 marked the 10th anniversary of Icelandic indie folk band <a href=\"https:\/\/www.udiscovermusic.com\/genre\/of-monster-and-men\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Of Monster and Men<\/a>\u2019s sophomore album, Beneath The Skin. Now, they\u2019re releasing a special anniversary edition of the record on colorful 2LP vinyl with remastered sound and a reimagined cover.<\/p>\n<p>The new cover, designed by the band, features the original\u2019s logo over a shiny new background. The original cover, designed by artistic director Leif Podhajsky, was nominated for Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package at the 58th Grammy Awards.\n<\/p>\n<p>Beneath The Skin debuted at number three on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 61,000 copies in its first week and becoming the band\u2019s highest-charting U.S. album. The album spawned five singles, with three of them\u2014\u201dCrystals,\u201d \u201cEmpire,\u201d and \u201cWolves Without Teeth\u201d\u2014receiving music videos. The record\u2019s title comes from a lyric in \u201cHuman:\u201d \u201cPlants awoke and they slowly grow beneath the skin.\u201d As part of the vinyl release, 100% of Of Monsters and Men artist\u2019s proceeds will be donated to War Child until June 8, 2027. Proceeds will be distributed by December 31, 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Following the success of their debut album, My Head Is an Animal, the band sought to produce a more intimate follow-up record. \u201cFor the first album, being from Iceland, you could feel in the lyrics that we wanted to go out and explore,\u201d singer Ragnar \u00de\u00f3rhallsson shared with Billboard. \u201cBecause we\u2019ve toured for two years, I think you can hear in this album that we\u2019re going more inwards. We\u2019re writing more about us instead of what\u2019s out there. It\u2019s much more personal.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>Touring also fostered a deeper connection between the members. \u00de\u00f3rhallsson continued, \u201cLast time around, [the band members] were really good friends but getting to know each other \u2014 now we really know each other very well. For us to open up to each other and talk about things that are personal was definitely hard, but I think it also makes us write better lyrics if we\u2019re honest.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.udiscovermusic.com\/collections\/of-monsters-and-men?utm_campaign=products&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=udiscovermusic.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Buy Of Monsters And Men\u2019s Beneath The Skin on vinyl here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2025 marked the 10th anniversary of Icelandic indie folk band Of Monster and Men\u2019s sophomore album, Beneath The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[210992,93,21632,14140,61,60,278,210993,640,210994],"class_list":["post-491176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-beneath-the-skin","tag-entertainment","tag-homepage-featured","tag-human","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music","tag-of-monsters-and-men","tag-rock","tag-wolves-without-teeth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}