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Read More »Leprous – European Tour – Review at the O2 Ritz, Manchester – 9/2/23
On paper, this is a dream line-up but things are not working out as perhaps they should. I am hugely excited to see Kalandra, their Nordic folk infused with grinding guitar sounds has been my melancholic earworm for a while. As an opener, they are not as loud as they …
Read More »After the Burial / Monuments / Circles – 18/10/2014
Tonight’s show marked the first night in the UK of this monolithic tour. With After the Burial headlining the show, supported by Circles and Monuments; you know it’s going to be a night of pure, unrelenting energy and sauna rooms. It’s fair to say that, ‘The Joiners’, is one of Southampton’s …
Read More »Download Festival 2014 – Interview with Monuments
I caught up with the boys from UK upstarts Monuments to discuss playing Download, the next 6-12 months and get the name of their new album horrifically wrong.
Read More »Monuments’ JOHN BROWNE releases new solo song to fund music education website
John Browne from the progressive metal band Monuments has released the following statement to promote a project he is working on. “I, The Creator of Monuments will be releasing a brand new solo song on the 17th March at 7pm GMT. This song is a solo piece of writing that …
Read More »MONUMENTS – “Gnosis”
If you think back to bands such as SixTh then this genre of ultra tech/ djent has been around for some time, however, with bands such as TesseracT, Periphery and Meshuggah perhaps bringing it more to the public eye and out of the groove Metal shadows, it can be no …
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