{"id":70452,"date":"2018-10-05T16:00:18","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T15:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/?p=70452"},"modified":"2018-10-05T15:17:38","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T14:17:38","slug":"review-monuments-phronesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/review-monuments-phronesis\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Monuments – Phronesis"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>It\u2019s easy to feel sorry for Monuments<\/b>. In the four years since their last album, they\u2019ve managed to burn through two drummers, and though they\u2019ve continued to plough ahead, they\u2019re ultimately in the same place they started, as a decent tech-metal band drowning in a sea of acts of similar or higher quality.<\/p>\n

With an album like \u2019Phronesis\u2019<\/i>, it becomes difficult to view it as much more than the product of a decent band, but lacking the necessities to take it beyond that stage. This isn\u2019t a problem exclusive to Monuments<\/b> either, but that only serves to make this album all the more faceless. The likes of \u2019Hollow King\u2019<\/i> and \u2019Celeste\u2019<\/i> really face the brunt of this more than most, comprised of yet more layers of collapsing, iron-tipped riffs that sound fine on their own, but in the context of the scene as a whole, they could come from an innumerable amount of other bands and it wouldn\u2019t make a difference.<\/p>\n