"Monster" is the third UK single by Cardiff-based Welsh band the Automatic, taken from their debut album, Not Accepted Anywhere.

The chorus was planned to have a fairytale-esque theme to it, with keyboardist and vocalist Alex Pennie penning the idea which would become the track's famous lyric "What's that coming over the hill?

In addition, a new section was added to the bridge of "Monster", featuring a riff from Paul Mullen's band Yourcodenameis:milo track "All Roads to Fault".

The single was released on 5 June 2006[7] as vinyl, CD, and digital formats featuring various remixes of "Monster" and the B-side from recording Not Accepted Anywhere, "Night Drive", which has rarely been performed live.

The band have not had a bigger hit from either Not Accepted Anywhere or This Is A Fix, the closest to reaching "Monster" was 2008 single "Steve McQueen" which charted at No.

16 on the UK charts, considerably lower than predicted; however, this was due to several mistakes made by the band's label, who took an extra week to digitally release the track "Steve McQueen".

Half of the band in 2005 believed that Not Accepted Anywhere track "Rats" would end up being a bigger hit than "Monster".

"[11] MusicOHM's Ryan Thomas reacted to the track far more positively, saying "Monster is an electrifying 3 minutes and 44 seconds of pop music at its finest"[12] NME also praised the track "it's the catchiest indie hit of the summer, boasting a hook that could disembowel a whale"[13] Gigwise.com however was not as positive, referring to previous singles "Recover" and "Raoul" saying "The Automatic's releases are getting progressively worse each time.

[15] The music video was produced and directed by Dominic Thompson-Talbot[16] of production company Up the Resolution, who would go on to work with the band on their next singles "Raoul" and "Recover".