★★★★★
Tweet Hardly a Copy of Anything British prog metal goliaths Monuments have released their highly anticipated second full length album The Amanuensis. Started by Fellsilent guitarist John Brown in 2010, he quickly added Chris Baretto (formerly of Periphery and Ever Forthright) to handle vocal duties, Olly Steele on second guitar and bassist Adam Swan. Since then, Monuments have been on the road constantly in support of their critically acclaimed debut Gnosis...
- www.mxdwn.com
2014-08-03
★★★★★
Usually people associate pop-punk with summer and relationships and life in the suburbs, not with frustration and hopelessness. Australia's Monuments want to change that with the debut album Existence. Monuments' faster, rougher brand of pop-punk calls less to mind man Overboard and Real Friends, and more the likes of Title Fight's Last Thing You Forget. The most notable aspect of the band is the vocalist, whose voice sounds remarkably like that of Vinnie Caruana (I Am the Avalanche)...
- absolutepunk.net
2013-08-23
★★★★★
Sound: After a very long two year wait fraught with problems, lineup changes and even lawsuits, UK Tech-prog metallers Monuments have released the debut album many thought would never arrive, "Gnosis". After the disbandment of Fellsilent, guitarist John Browne and (now ex) vocalist Neema Askari started working on assembling the embryonic version of monuments, creating a distinct yet similar sound to the now defuntct Fellsilent...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-08-30
★★★★★
The band emailed through a package and one of the items in this package, apart from the music, was a little biography introducing the band, and it said,"...Monuments, an up beat, modern run of Pop Punk/Punk Rock music which mixes, balls and determination with catchy melodies, resembling bands such as No Trigger, Lifetime and Living With Lions to name a few, which Monuments refer to as influences." and I couldn't have said it better myself...
- absolutepunk.net
2012-04-05