Fuuuuuck yeah! this shit is bipolar!

Pretty sick indeed

If only they started playing metal I might have actually loved it. These guys are too skilled to be fucking around in metalcore.

Fucking epiiiic

Instrumental madness... Love it.

Wow, this is most definitely impressive. Although I usually have the propensity to avoid most metalcore, I, ironically, am drawn to this album. The progressive intricacies found in this album are probably the reason.

Fortress is most definitely a testament to metalcore done correctly.

They won best metal album of the year in Canada with this one for a reason! Don't let the metalcore genre make you instantly hate it. IMO this is not metalcore at all. it's something of a whole new breed. never ending solo metal maybe lol

GODLY ALBUM.


this is the best metalcore album i've ever heard.

These guys are fucking great ! :O

Written by Boxcar Willy on 05.01.2012 at 17:55

GODLY ALBUM.


this is the best metalcore album i've ever heard.

Sure is....Never understood the metalcore tag

Written by JÄY on 14.10.2012 at 23:06

Sure is....Never understood the metalcore tag

Because it's metalcore. Just because it's metalcore doesn't mean it's bad

Written by Alex F on 16.11.2012 at 19:32

Written by JÄY on 14.10.2012 at 23:06

Sure is....Never understood the metalcore tag

Because it's metalcore. Just because it's metalcore doesn't mean it's bad

for sure... i just don't hear and hardcore in it

Amazing.

Holy Crap

Can't understand why I didn't give this band a try back when I heard 'Sequioa throne' a few years ago, but this album is leaving me speechless and simply awed. Overstated as that may be, there really isn't anything that the band don't do effectively here. Instrumentation is virtually perfected to bring in new styles that invoke melodic passages (The piano outros on various songs), furiously frantic guitar riffs and mezmerizing drum rhythms. The vocal range here is so varied that I couldn't even believe there was merely one vocalist-his transition between dull, harsh roars and luscious cleans on 'The dissentience' and 'Palms read' really makes for a unqiue collaboration with the other instruments. And at the risk of coming across as an absolute fanboy (This album has now made me one after having listened to it 5 times in a row on the same day), it fits the MS rating I gave-a perfect '10'.

Written by musicalkaratekid on 13.10.2013 at 22:06

Can't understand why I didn't give this band a try back when I heard 'Sequioa throne' a few years ago, but this album is leaving me speechless and simply awed. Overstated as that may be, there really isn't anything that the band don't do effectively here. Instrumentation is virtually perfected to bring in new styles that invoke melodic passages (The piano outros on various songs), furiously frantic guitar riffs and mezmerizing drum rhythms. The vocal range here is so varied that I couldn't even believe there was merely one vocalist-his transition between dull, harsh roars and luscious cleans on 'The dissentience' and 'Palms read' really makes for a unqiue collaboration with the other instruments. And at the risk of coming across as an absolute fanboy (This album has now made me one after having listened to it 5 times in a row on the same day), it fits the MS rating I gave-a perfect '10'.

Glad to see you get it

Also a lot of the low growls are done by the bassist, Arif.

I know that sheer repeat listening to music and gradual familiarity can start to win an album over with you, but even that can't cut it if the music isn't inherently capable of inspiring enthusiasm with you. I've found that repeated exposure over time to this album, along with The Hunter by Mastodon, have gradually made me become a fan of more and more of the songs almost with each listen. Despite owning and semi-regularly listening to the album since 2010, it's only within the last year that I've started appreciating it on the same level as their other albums, which I used to be much fonder towards. Over pretty much the last year, I've gone from being fond of only a couple of songs to the same level as pretty much most of Kezia and Volition (Blood Meat, Spoils), to then learning the live regulars in anticipation of seeing the band (Bone Marrow, Sequoia Throne), and then listening more to the album and discovering more personal favourites (Palms Read, Wretch, and eventually The Dissentience), leaving only a few slightly questionable tracks to hold me back from giving it a 10. I'm still not totally won over by Limb By Limb (I like quite a bit but it's still the weakest track IMO), but I've finally had a full-on breakthrough from reservedly liking to full-on loving the Goddess songs, and within the space of a year, Fortress may have gone from my least favourite PTH album to perhaps my favourite, and one of my all-time favourite albums. It might've been the complexity, and (for the band) relative extremity which held me back for the first years, but just every song is rammed full of multiple awesome moments, and the mix of aggression, technicality, creativity and distinctiveness, hookiness and lyrical intelligence is incredible - I can't believe just a year or so ago I would've ranked Scurrilous as my top album by the band whilst dismissing this. Oh, and both the album and band in general are perfect workout music. /raving over

Damn this was a pleasant surprise and the user & reviewer rating actually lived to the actual music. Bone Marrow is amazing!
One of the best albums I've ever heard.

PTH are the only band I can think of that have two, and back to back, "10" albums. The instrumentals, Rody's vocal range and the production are all perfect in both Fortress and Kezia.

This album is great and really special to me, the first time a listened to a progressive metal music was being told by a friend to give "Sequoia throne" a try. I didn't understand the music at all in the first 10 plays, all instrumental lines crashing at once made me confuse about the shape of the song, but aplying some patience i started to conect with the music, lyrics, and understand each technical piece of it, and once i started to love this shit i devoured all the discography.

This album never ceases to amaze me listen after listen.

Very unimpressive album from an overrated band. This is basically just sugary power metal with core vox, with so much wankery its practically a bukkake.

I just listened to The Human Abstract the other day and it does this genre so much better.

Written by A Real Mönkey on 03.09.2022 at 17:03

Very unimpressive album from an overrated band. This is basically just sugary power metal with core vox, with so much wankery its practically a bukkake.

I just listened to The Human Abstract the other day and it does this genre so much better.

Pffft, the two bands are so sonically similar it’s unjust to call one wankery and not the other. Rody’s vocal work is immensely superior too.

Written by Boxcar Willy on 03.09.2022 at 17:46

Pffft, the two bands are so sonically similar it’s unjust to call one wankery and not the other.

Ehhhhh, not really. That's just generalization of the genre, in that case you might as well say the same thing about groups like BTBAM or Burst, when that isn't the case (or at least it isn't for BTBAM's earlier works). One's got overuse of wankage, the other doesn't. One sounds more like technical metalcore, the other sounds more like heavy pop punk spiked with Monster Energy.

Written by A Real Mönkey on 03.09.2022 at 19:29

Written by Boxcar Willy on 03.09.2022 at 17:46

Pffft, the two bands are so sonically similar it’s unjust to call one wankery and not the other.

Ehhhhh, not really. That's just generalization of the genre, in that case you might as well say the same thing about groups like BTBAM or Burst, when that isn't the case (or at least it isn't for BTBAM's earlier works). One's got overuse of wankage, the other doesn't. One sounds more like technical metalcore, the other sounds more like heavy pop punk spiked with Monster Energy.

Oh please don't bring up BTBAM when talking to Boxcar on a Protest The Hero thread, I don't miss the Boxcar vs. Lit. Metalhead war about those two bands

Written by musclassia on 03.09.2022 at 19:47

Oh please don't bring up BTBAM when talking to Boxcar on a Protest The Hero thread, I don't miss the Boxcar vs. Lit. Metalhead war about those two bands

The truth certainly stings, I'm sure.

Written by musclassia on 03.09.2022 at 19:47

Oh please don't bring up BTBAM when talking to Boxcar on a Protest The Hero thread, I don't miss the Boxcar vs. Lit. Metalhead war about those two bands

I will hold my tongue for the sake of peace in the forum