Fortress - Protest The Hero

So here's the second album from Protest The Hero, this band is a very big influence of mine along with a lot of other bands from this genre and awaiting this album, I was expecting something amazing. I was a bit disappointed with this album, not in a sense that it is a bad album or badly written, the songs aren't bad at all, but I feel that not enough thought went into the album and it could have been made a lot better. The standard of the guitars,bass and drums is still brilliant, but i feel that each song has a lack of structure and although they manage to make the riffs fit with each other, the songs do not flow as well as they should do. Don't ...  Read the complete review

Protest the Hero have returned with their album Fortress. And it's just as good as their previous album Kezia, although I think the technical mathcore influences really come through even more in Fortress. But that just goes to show that Protest the Hero are actually progressing and evolving. The standard of the instrumentalists continues to be ridiculously and inhumanly high. The guitarists just can't get any better, and the same goes for the drummer and bassist. The singer's voice is still the same as in Kezia - not quite what you would expect at first, and so it takes a while to get used to before you can actually enjoy listening to it, but eventually you'll ...  Read the complete review

Fortress is Protest the Hero's second full album, and the evolution that has taken place since Kezia is very noticeable. Kezia itself was quite a groundbreaking and unique album but since then, Protest the Hero have come on leaps and bounds. The music style on this album has progressive song structures however for those who don't like 10 and 20 minute epics that can often be found with progressive songs, these are still of average song length. What this means is that the songs slowly build to a very powerful and usually very catchy climax, which I think is a great touch and a refreshing change from generic song structures - Intro, Verse, Chorus, Verse, ...  Read the complete review