Monsters is the sixth studio album by American rock band the Meat Puppets, released in October 1989.

Kirkwood added that the album had been a response to acts like Bon Jovi and that with Monsters he wanted to show that the Meat Puppets could be a mainstream rock band.

[2] Monsters was described as a "heavy rock attack" by Stephen Thomas Erlewine in an AllMusic biography of the band,[1] while Roaul Hernandez of Austin Chronicle remarked that the record was "metal all the way".

[2] Greg Prato stated that the Monsters was best described as a "cross" of the two preceding Meat Puppets albums, Huevos and Mirage.

[3] AllMusic's Greg Prato gave a mixed review of Monsters, commenting that while songs were "hindered" by "synth textures" and individual instrument recording, the record had "several highlights" including a "vicious" album opener in "Attacked By Monsters", and the "tough rocker" "The Void".