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CD/DVD Releases: Monuments To Release "The Amanuensis" June 23

Posted on Saturday, May 24 @ 14:00:00 UTC by nightowl

Back at the end of April Century Media issued the following press release: The Amanuensis, Monuments' sophomore album and follow up to 2012's critically acclaimed Gnosis is scheduled for a release on the following dates: Europe / Australia /NZ: June 23, 2014; USA / Canada: July 8, 2014.

The Amanuensis, at least the title, was inspired by author David Mitchell's novel, Cloud Atlas. The complex story lines are the perfect analog for Monuments. Musically, the group weave in and out of themes, motifs, and professor-like note calculations with graceful ease. But lyrically The Amanuensis comes from a very different place. "The album is about the Samsara cycle," reveals Browne (guitar). "The cyclical existence of life that we are all bound to."

The story of The Amanuensis is divided in 11 chapters whose titles read as follows:

1. I, The Creator
2. Origin Of Escape
3. Atlas
4. Horcrux
5. Garden Of Sankhara
6. The Alchemist
7. Quasimodo
8. Saga City
9. Jinn
10. I, The Destroyer
11. Samsara

Before touring Europe right around the release of The Amanuensis with Protest The Hero, Monuments will do a quick and exclusive run with support coming from Dioramic for a handful of intimate shows throughout Germany in May [which started May 10 at the Lower Tuned Festival and concluded May 16; the band played at the 6K Fest on May 17, and at the The Forum in Hatfield, UK. Below are the upcoming live dates around the release date of the album].

Monuments live:

6/15/14 - (UK) Donnington Park - Download Festival
6/22/14 - (ES) Bilbao - Kafe Antzokia **
6/24/14 - (IT) Pinarella di Cervia - RockPlanet **
6/25/14 - (DE) Stuttgart - Universum **
6/26/14 - (NL) Utrecht - Helling (Tivoli) **
6/27/14 - (DE) Bochum - Matrix **
6/30/14 - (DE) Munich - Backstage **
7/1/14 - (HU) Budapest - Budapest Park **
7/2/14 - (SK) Bratislava - Randal Club **
7/3/14 - (PL) Warschau - Progresja **
7/11/14 - (BE) Genk - Miner Fest
8/8/14 - (BE) Ieper - Ieperfest
* w/ Dioramic
** w/ Protest The Hero

Monuments are:

Chris Barretto - vocals, saxophone
John Browne - guitar
Olly Steele - guitar
Adam Swan - bass
Mike Malyan - drums, samples

[Source: Century Media]

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