Monuments was playing at the Damage Festival 2014 at Le Cabaret Sauvage, Paris, France, on October 26th 2014.

Five-piece progressive metal band from London, UK:

• Chris Barretto – lead vocals, saxophone
• John Browne – guitars
• Olly Steele –  guitars
• Adam Swan – bass
• Mike Malyan – drums, samples

Thanks to Damien and Margaux from Only Talent Productions for the passes.

DevilDriver was headling at Le Trabendo, Paris, France on April 1st 2014.

The five-pieces band from California is playing a Groove / Melodic Death Metal, which alternates soft and heavy with fast and hard music and vocals. Their music is quite catching and usually good at moving crowds around, I remember seeing the biggest circle pit ever during their show in Download Festival years ago. Dez Fafara on vocals is the strong point of the show. As he claims during the show, he has ADD and is quite hyper. Love when he said “California is a great place, you can both snowboard and surf on the same day”, well this guy knows how to talk to me! That’s quite strange to see him with a beard though, I’m quite used to his tattooed shin! Jeff Kendrick on guitar and the new recruit Chris Towning on bass are the shave heads of the groupe, and they put a good display on stage, putting on faces and display there playing skills. Mike Spreitzer on the guitar and John Boecklin on drums are quite calms on stage.

The shows starts quite early nowdays during the week and ends even earlier, that probably explains why the venue was not fool, but the public really seemed to enjoy the show, singing along and getting hyper on the pit! A good show with good music, clearly the highlight of the evening even though I saw crazier shows from them.

Setlist:

1. Head on to Heartache (Let Them Rot)
2. Hold Back the Day
3. Not All Who Wander Are Lost
4. Before the Hangman’s Noose
5. Oath of the Abyss
6. I Could Care Less
7. The Appetite
8. Sail (AWOLNATION cover)
9. End of the Line
10. Dead to Rights
11. Clouds Over California
12. Ruthless
13. Meet the Wretched

Thanks to Mona from Napalm Records.