It lasts for an exhausting, exhilarating hour and a quarter. I was glad of the earplugs. But there is no doubt that this brilliantly forged partnership of music, dance and art, reworked from its brief outing 10 years ago, is indeed monumental.

A collaboration between dance company the Holy Body Tattoo (newly resurrected for this tour) and their fellow Canadians, the visionary band Godspeed You! Black Emperor, the show holds you in a thunderously dark, dystopian embrace. It exposes the energies, both literal (wind turbines and cars are featured) and psychological, that drive our expansionist, industrialised, switched-on world.

There are five guitars, two drum kits, a violin and nine dancers in black and white. Performing on plinths, as if dressed for the office, they work flat out. We are hauled along on their internalised trip, as symphonic waves of sound propel panic – they thrust and scratch, tugging hair and fighting, until they fall off their pedestals and regroup. Layered into this are words of wisdom courtesy of the New York-based feminist artist Jenny Holzer’s Living Series, which appear in the deep space above.

The band, barely visible upstage on a raised platform, define the action below. Almost motionless, the power and charisma of their collective spirit is great – as is their fanbase in Scotland. An apocalyptic whirlpool of flesh and chest-penetrating bass, punctuated with yearning, looping notes, Monumental’s bleak message is insistent.