  
The whole Djent scene has really blown up over
the last 12 months, when it first emerged I wasn’t
really aware it even existed to be honest, to
the point where last year I was listening to some
new acts that fall under this category thinking
they were knew to discover they’d been kicking
around for a long time! I must say its one of
my favourite movements in recent years as it’s
one I actually actively enjoy that is a perfect
display of skill and technical ability; bands
like Periphery, Tesseract, Veil of Maya and Animals
as Leaders are some of my favourites to the game
as they all bring their own distinctive edge that
really gives them a hook. Monuments are a brand
new British band from Milton Keynes that wants
to join the party, “Gnosis” is their
debut album and has had been promoted to death
as everywhere I’ve looked to do with metal
music online and in magazines there is adverts
for it everywhere.
Alright then, so I’ve given it a few listens
through (so far as whilst I write my reviews it’s
played on a loop) and I can safely say that this
band is going on my list as this material is absolutely
fantastic! It would be easy to sit here and point
out similarities to all of the artists that I
listed earlier but that’s because Djent
has a distinctive structures and techniques so
there will always be similarities I mean I can
see a lot of Periphery similarities in there except
it’s not quite as high octane or complex
it’s a lot heavier and thicker in tone,
the vocals are that bit deeper and due to this
the growls are heavier and the melodies and much
more fitting and atmospheric.
It’s great to see British acts getting involved
with such a technical and prestigious modern style,
I can also say it’s great to see this particular
act burst onto the scene with such an impressive
debut album! That can’t be said for many
bands on the whole spanning across a wide variety
of genres, so overall this is a win all around!
3.5/5
Review By James Webb
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