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"Monuments" CD by This Or The Apocalypse

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The budding Pennsylvania quartet present a perfect soundtrack for the Apocalypse. "Monuments" is a shattering and disturbing disc that sets new heights to brutality.
Item no. 437055
Title Monuments
Musical Genre Metalcore
Product topic Bands
Band This Or The Apocalypse
Release date 24/10/2008
Product type CD
Media - Format 1-3 CD

CD 1

  • 1.
    No horizons
  • 2.
    Monuments
  • 3.
    Two wars
  • 4.
    We are debt
  • 5.
    Geist
  • 6.
    Architeuthis
  • 7.
    The polymath
  • 8.
    Memento mori
  • 9.
    Mauna kea
  • 10.
    Elegiac

by Matthias Mader (22.10.2008) Popular evergreens on record covers: apocalyptic scenarios. In this case, it is a destroyed Statue of Liberty and some burnt down oil platforms in the background sending off black, billowing smoke into a dark sky... So much for modern Metalcore bands being not politically interested. These four very young men from Pennsylvania present us with the ultimate soundtrack for the apocalypse: "Monuments". Be it "No horizons", "Two wars", or "Geist", This Or The Apocalypse tear down walls, and turn monuments of suppression into ashes with their steamrollering sound collages: it is destruction time. The ten songs are more or less drenched in blackness - this is pure musical nihilism. One or the other tentative beginning of a Rock groove or some rare melodious interlude make for some desperately needed light in this threatening atmosphere. "Monuments" is an extremely upsetting and devastatingly brutal album - nothing for the weak and wimpy…