| Giant Squid Metridium Fields | 4.0 |
| Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky | 2.0 |
| Cursed II | 4.0 |
| Mustard Plug Evildoers Beware! | 4.0 |
| Damien Rice O | 5.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors_Live | 4.0 |
| Misery Signals Mirrors | 3.5 |
| Misery Signals Of Malice and the Magnum Heart | 3.5 |
| Misery Signals Controller | 3.5 |
| Cult of Luna Salvation | 4.5 |
| Neurosis Through Silver in Blood | 4.0 |
| Neurosis Times of Grace | 4.0 |
| Neurosis A Sun That Never Sets | 4.0 |
| Neurosis Given to the Rising | 4.0 |
| United Nations United Nations | 4.0 |
| The National Boxer | 3.5 |
| Radiohead Pablo Honey | 2.5 |
| Don Caballero For Respect | 3.0 |
| Don Caballero World Class Listening Problem | 3.0 |
| Don Caballero American Don | 3.5 |
| Don Caballero Don Caballero II | 3.5 |
| Century Black Ocean | 3.5 |
| Mouth Of The Architect Quietly | 4.0 |
| ISIS Celestial | 3.5 |
| ISIS The Red Sea | 3.5 |
| ISIS In the Absence of Truth | 4.0 |
| ISIS Oceanic | 4.5 |
| Rosetta The Galilean Satellites | 4.0 |
| Darkest Hour Hidden Hands of a Sadist Nation | 3.5 |
| Darkest Hour Undoing Ruin | 3.5 |
| Pig Destroyer Terrifyer | 4.0 |
| Weezer Pinkerton | 4.0 |
| Weezer Weezer | 4.0 |
| Zozobra Bird of Prey | 4.0 |
| Zozobra Harmonic Tremors | 3.5 |
| Ugly Casanova Sharpen Your Teeth | 3.0 |
| Darkest Hour Deliver Us | 4.5 |
| Intronaut Prehistoricisms | 4.5 |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain | 3.5 |
| 3OH!3 Want | 1.5 |
| Mad Caddies Duck and Cover | 3.5 |
| Mad Caddies Quality Soft Core | 3.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium | 3.0 |
| DangerDoom The Mouse And The Mask | 3.0 |
| The Fight Between Frames Birth of The Bull and The Labyrinth | 2.5 |
| Botch We Are the Romans | 4.0 |
| Botch American Nervoso | 3.0 |
| The Famine The Raven and the Reaping | 3.5 |
| The Mighty Mighty Bosstones Let's Face It | 3.5 |
| Baroness Red Album | 5.0 |
| Catch 22 Keasbey Nights | 3.5 |
| Muse Black Holes & Revelations | 3.5 |
| Muse Absolution | 4.0 |
| Emery The Weak's End | 4.0 |
Stunning musicmanship, superb lyrics and every song memorable
great indeed. |
| Torche Meanderthal | 4.0 |
I was walking through a celestial moonlight forest grove when i encountered a foe that claimed he loved stoner because it was low to mid tempo.
I socked him in the nuts and threw "Meanderthal" down at his body. |
| The End (CAN) Elementary | 4.0 |
| Meshuggah obZen | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral | 3.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails With Teeth | 3.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails Year Zero | 3.5 |
| Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West | 4.5 |
| Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica | 4.0 |
| Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News | 3.5 |
| Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank | 3.5 |
| The Devil Wears Prada Dear Love: A Beautiful Discord | 3.5 |
| The Devil Wears Prada Plagues | 3.5 |
| Pig Destroyer Phantom Limb | 4.0 |
| August Burns Red Thrill Seeker | 4.0 |
| August Burns Red Messengers | 4.0 |
| Kings of Convenience Riot on an Empty Street | 4.0 |
| In Flames A Sense of Purpose | 3.0 |
| In Flames Come Clarity | 3.5 |
| Burst Prey on Life | 3.5 |
| Burst Origo | 4.0 |
| Behold... The Arctopus Nano-Nucleonic Cyborg Summoning | 4.0 |
| Matisyahu Youth | 3.5 |
| Matisyahu Live At Stubb's | 4.0 |
| It Prevails The Inspiration | 3.0 |
| Kylesa Time Will Fuse Its Worth | 3.0 |
| Mastodon Leviathan | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Remission | 4.5 |
| The End (CAN) Transfer Trachea Reverberations from Point: False Omniscient | 4.0 |
| Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head | 3.5 |
| Coldplay Parachutes | 3.0 |
| Coldplay X&Y | 3.5 |
| Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends | 3.5 |
| Converge Jane Doe | 4.0 |
| Converge No Heroes | 4.0 |
| Don Caballero What Burns Never Returns | 4.0 |
| Don Caballero Punkgasm | 3.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine | 3.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works | 3.5 |
| Damien Rice 9 | 3.5 |
| Sky Eats Airplane Everything Perfect on the Wrong Day | 3.5 |
| Sky Eats Airplane Sky Eats Airplane | 3.5 |
| Genghis Tron Cloak of Love | 3.0 |
| Genghis Tron Dead Mountain Mouth | 3.0 |
| Genghis Tron Board Up the House | 4.5 |
| Armor For Sleep What To Do When You Are Dead | 3.5 |
| Radiohead The Bends | 3.5 |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 3.5 |
| Radiohead Kid A | 3.0 |
| Radiohead Amnesiac | 3.0 |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief | 3.5 |
| Radiohead Go to Sleep | 3.5 |
| The Flaming Lips At War with the Mystics | 3.5 |
| The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots | 3.5 |
| Every Time I Die The Big Dirty | 3.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Anatomy Of | 3.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska | 4.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors | 5.0 |
| Interpol Antics | 3.5 |
| Interpol Our Love to Admire | 3.5 |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights | 4.5 |
| Dethklok The Dethalbum | 4.0 |
| Suicide Silence The Cleansing | 3.5 |
| Alien Ant Farm TruANT | 3.0 |
| Alien Ant Farm ANThology | 4.0 |
| Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb | 4.0 |
| The Aquabats The Fury of the Aquabats! | 4.0 |
| ISIS Panopticon | 4.0 |
| This or the Apocalypse Monuments | 3.5 |
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. |
