Monuments Megathread

[TimSE]

Hmm I like it but something about it is still the same for me. Iv always liked it before but never wow'ed me.
But then that is just after 1 listen of 1 song.

Im sure the album will rape my ears

[leftyguitarjoe]

Monuments is a band thats good enough that they dont need a singer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFSZqbXPTJY

[GTailly]

Originally Posted by leftyguitarjoe

Monuments is a band thats good enough that they dont need a singer.

How is music supposed to be good enough to be instrumental? Do singers help bad music?... -.-'

No offense here mate.

[Hallic]

so nobody post the link?:

ADMIT DEFEAT - Album Demo (Pre Prod) by THISISMONUMENTS on SoundCloud - Create, record and share your sounds for free

[JamesM]

^Was already posted...

[vampiregenocide]

Originally Posted by In(Di)visions

How is music supposed to be good enough to be instrumental? Do singers help bad music?... -.-'

No offense here mate.

Sometimes music needs vocals and feels empty without it. Sometimes the music is so interesting on it's own that vocals aren't necessarily needed to appreciate it.

[GTailly]

Originally Posted by vampiregenocide

Sometimes music needs vocals and feels empty without it. Sometimes the music is so interesting on it's own that vocals aren't necessarily needed to appreciate it.

Totally agree with your point.

I just believe that music is a free form of art and only the bands themselves should be the final judges on wether yes or no their music needs vocals on it.

But I understand your point.

[Angus Clark]

I'm gonna be straight up honest with this one.
I hate it. I hate it a lot.
If this is the new vocalist, or an example of him trying, I will be very sad.

[EDIT]

Actually, hate is a strong word. I very much dislike it.

[BlindingLight7]

I'm at a point where I'm ure it's a joke, but if it isn't I wwill listen to them anyway, even though the vocals suck

[vampiregenocide]

Originally Posted by In(Di)visions

Totally agree with your point.

I just believe that music is a free form of art and only the bands themselves should be the final judges on wether yes or no their music needs vocals on it.

But I understand your point.

And I agree with you.

[leftyguitarjoe]

Originally Posted by vampiregenocide

Sometimes music needs vocals and feels empty without it. Sometimes the music is so interesting on it's own that vocals aren't necessarily needed to appreciate it.

This is what I meant. He just worded it better than me.

[Hallic]

Guess i'm late, but my first impression: thad vocals bit after 1:20, that style of singing,.. THAT's GOLDEN.
The first technique, is much like neema's but got a slower feel to it, and also bit less pronouced than Neema's.
My first reactie, i like it. See potential for the other songs. luckely they didn't change to style of the vocals all that much, just small bit.
(OF COUrse just for this track)

Instruments: Sounds very defined, dat bass cut throught the mix, which is good.

[vampiregenocide]

I tell you what I do miss, that really pronounced Middle-Eastern sounding guitar part at the beginning of the original version. That part really made the song for me and it's a lot less obvious in this version. I still like it, just miss that part.

[0 Xero 0]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks that this was an April Fool's joke. As soon as I heard the vocals enter, I was thinking, "Really? Well, it is April 1..." Nothing has been released saying it isn't official, but the harsh vox just seem sarcastic and fake to me. It seems like something Olly would do, haha. He loves a good trolling.

[Hallic]

You what a realy good april fools day joke would have been?






Accidentally leaking the album with Greg & Neema's vocals on it. They would have fooled us!



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[goherpsNderp]

hmmm, indeed it is extremely rough. seems like most of the yelling stuff in the beginning was as if he wrote it down a few minutes before being asked to record vocals. also sounds like he isn't used to screaming at all.

hopefully this is just because this is pre-production and hasn't been tooled around with yet. for all i know every singer sounds a lot like this before the studio guys work their magic.

[Mwoit]

Hm, I hope those vocals are April Fools. I'm not convinced.

[jjfiegel]

So Monuments just confirmed in Facebook that this guy is the new vocalist. But they are going in the studio at the end of the month to rerecord or touch it up it seems. I would post the status but I'm on my phone.

[Mwoit]

Originally Posted by vampiregenocide

Am I the only one getting a serious SiKth vibe from the vocals? Like, it literally sounds just like them. I swear there's a part that sounds like Mikee. I'm not sure how I feel about it just yet, probably because I'm used to the last version, so I shall have a few more listens.

I do that vibe, it's when he does the kinda talking part that gives me Mikee thoughts.

Originally Posted by Monuments FB

We can confirm that a pre production version of 'Admit Defeat' unintentially leaked from our Soundcloud account. We are pleased to announce that this track does feature our new vocalist, and he will be entering the studio for final album vocals on April 30th with Dan Weller at Fortress Studio, London. Hold onto your lug nuts, its time for an overhaul.

[Tali]

notice the *pre-prod* next to the track... obviously not a final representation of the track.

I think the new vocalist will destroy if this is just a rough sampling of what we can expect

[anomynous]

Originally Posted by jjfiegel

So Monuments just confirmed in Facebook that this guy is the new vocalist. But they are going in the studio at the end of the month to rerecord or touch it up it seems. I would post the status but I'm on my phone.

NNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOO

[0 Xero 0]

After listening to this a couple more times, I don't mind everything past the beginning (and the other sections of the songs with that style of screaming/whining/whatever). The beginning sounds like vox from 'Jane Doe' that got raped or something terrible. I realize it's pre-production, but production magic can only do so much...

[leftyguitarjoe]

Originally Posted by jjfiegel

So Monuments just confirmed in Facebook that this guy is the new vocalist. But they are going in the studio at the end of the month to rerecord or touch it up it seems. I would post the status but I'm on my phone.

This vocalist will make the band unlistenable for me. I hope they release an instrumental version of the album or something.

Its Sol Niger Within all over again.

[Sikthness]

I'm surprised people actually thought this was an april fools joke. I mean its not like they had superb vocalists before, and then got this. He sounds similar enough to Neema n Greg for the most part, it shouldnt be at all surprising this is the real vocalist. I wasnt a huge fan of the vocals before, and aren't really now. Id be willing to bet they can clean this up quite a bit n it'll sound great, though. Just have a feeling.

[jjfiegel]

Originally Posted by leftyguitarjoe

This vocalist will make the band unlistenable for me. I hope they release an instrumental version of the album or something.

Its Sol Niger Within all over again.