| 3.5 great |
| Armor For Sleep What To Do When You Are Dead |
| Burst Prey on Life |
| Catch 22 Keasbey Nights |
| Century Black Ocean |
| Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head |
| Coldplay X&Y |
| Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends |
| Damien Rice 9 |
| Darkest Hour Hidden Hands of a Sadist Nation |
| Darkest Hour Undoing Ruin |
| Don Caballero American Don |
| Don Caballero Don Caballero II |
| Don Caballero Punkgasm |
| Every Time I Die The Big Dirty |
| In Flames Come Clarity |
| Interpol Antics |
| Interpol Our Love to Admire |
| ISIS The Red Sea |
| ISIS Celestial |
| Mad Caddies Duck and Cover |
| Mad Caddies Quality Soft Core |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain |
| Matisyahu Youth |
| Misery Signals Of Malice and the Magnum Heart |
| Misery Signals Mirrors |
| Misery Signals Controller |
| Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News |
| Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank |
| Muse Black Holes & Revelations |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral |
| Nine Inch Nails With Teeth |
| Nine Inch Nails Year Zero |
| Radiohead The Bends |
| Radiohead Go to Sleep |
| Radiohead OK Computer |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief |
| Sky Eats Airplane Everything Perfect on the Wrong Day |
| Sky Eats Airplane Sky Eats Airplane |
| Suicide Silence The Cleansing |
| The Devil Wears Prada Dear Love: A Beautiful Discord |
| The Devil Wears Prada Plagues |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works |
| The Famine The Raven and the Reaping |
| The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots |
| The Flaming Lips At War with the Mystics |
| The Mighty Mighty Bosstones Let's Face It |
| The National Boxer |
| This or the Apocalypse Monuments |
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. |
| Zozobra Harmonic Tremors |
