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| 4.0 excellent | ThePalestMexican | January 10th 10 |
You know that girl in your class who's had sex with every guy, and nobody really wants her anymore. That girl, my friend is metalcore, but This or the Apocalypse is metalcore's twin sister while being attractive as she was once before, isn't a whore, and has a few surprises that intrigues men for miles on end.
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| 3.5 great | fruteefly | October 4th 08 |
Monuments, a debut album and highly impressive blast into the scene it is. This or the Apocalypse, or TOTA, offering up thiers sacrifice to the altar of consumer critisizim, of are fresh out of the slaughterhouse, and an impressive rack up for sale.
With ever apparent metalcore influences, TOTA proffers a fresh spice into a fully baked scene of impressive leads, heavy, mindblazingly energetic breakdowns and innovative chops to boot. The scene break-in holds true in the bands ability. Stunning, and equally inspirational riff-dances on the high strings are repeated to powerful effect to the blasting beats of off the wall, high voltage drumming. I hate to list through the instruments performance for every review, but es-ecially here, this bass is tasty. Too often in Metalcore genre burst-into bands, the bass on album tracks is hopelessly lost in the fervor of the of albums energetic leads and vocals, but here this bass has immeasuable groove, carrying the album overtone in a non-droning and fresh direction. The album is almost rivetign as it approaches tracks such as "Memento Mori" which hold their own in giving such more depth and workability to the purpose of the album as a whole, and then just as tracks like those hold still the tumult, in all of it's glory it is reinstated by the following track. An Up-and-down in holy fervor, Monuments delivers.
BOTTOM LINE- Metalcore fans rejoice, a splendid new work has entered the midst. While not being the freshest face of the century, it's definately the freshest face of the week. Been interested in this direction musically? A great place to start, for both the audience to get into it, and a strong foothold for TOTA to make thier names known. I'm excited for what's in store.
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| 2.5 average | Nitram916 | April 4th 25 |
The title track is amazing on this otherwise mediocre album, Architeuthis and Memento Mori are also pretty great.
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| 4.0 excellent | Brabiz | June 25th 24 |
| 3.0 good | haley | June 3rd 23 |
| 2.5 average | Sebe | February 24th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Loch | January 20th 18 |
| 3.5 great | 8genre | January 27th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | mEyck97 | September 29th 15 |
| 3.5 great | Aaron77 | September 25th 15 |
| 3.0 good | Kurazz | August 18th 13 |
| 3.5 great | chayka | February 14th 13 |
| 3.0 good | Andrew | November 1st 12 |
| 3.0 good | MTTS | February 9th 12 |
| 2.5 average | Dday | November 13th 11 |
| 2.5 average | kayu | July 26th 11 |
| 3.5 great | Durrzo | June 30th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | bgregab | June 23rd 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | CHUNK | June 21st 11 |
| 3.5 great | Metalz | October 15th 10 |
| 3.5 great | IN64 | September 25th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | ArchoN | August 30th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | Strider | August 20th 10 |
| 3.5 great | ABR157 | July 23rd 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | Rush22 | July 14th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | wachooo | June 29th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | TheJack | June 26th 10 |
| 3.5 great | Kulti | June 10th 10 |
| 3.5 great | ebay | May 30th 10 |
| 3.5 great | met65 | May 27th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | Pneuma | May 6th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | Curse. | May 3rd 10 |
| 3.5 great | musick | March 27th 10 |
| 3.5 great | Groink | September 29th 09 |
| 4.0 excellent | atrink | August 5th 09 |
| 3.0 good | asaf | November 15th 08 |
| 4.0 excellent | iDESTROY | November 11th 08 |
| 3.5 great | ikarus | October 16th 08 |
| 3.5 great | Saidir | October 12th 08 |
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