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. |
