Damon Locks

Coming from a post-hardcore alternative rock background, Damon Locks turned to jazz with the Black Monument Ensemble and then solo. Born in Silver Spring, Maryland, he moved to New York at the age of eighteen to attend art school, before continuing his studies in Chicago. There, in 1988, he formed the alternative rock band Trenchmouth, which he fronted for ten years and four albums, until 1998. With multi-instrumentalist Wayne Montana, he went on to form The Eternals, whose five albums turned to electronica and dub. Now an exposed artist, Damon Locks embarked on a new project, bringing together singers and musicians including Angel Bat Dawid, Ben LaMar Gay and Dana Hall to form Black Monument Ensemble, a collective combining jazz, hip-hop and sound collage, of which the albums Where Future Unfolds (2019) and Now (2021) are representative. In 2023, Locks joined forces with a well-known player on the avant-garde scene, Rob Mazurek, to record the concept album New Future City Radio (2023). In 2025, he went solo on List of Demands, a mix of jazz, poetry and scratches.

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