In Mourning - Monolith (2010)^{Release ID: 6697}

This album could be described as melodic death metal with progressive metal & black metal influences. Although the musicians all show themselves to be quite capable I found this release to be fairly uninspiring & flat. There is just not enough balls here. All the tracks are well written & performed but it's all a bit too pretty for my taste. The progressive parts tend to be fairly high on the cheese factor & I also found the vocals to be pretty annoying at times. It's not all bad but you won't find many "Hell yeah!" moments here.