Taking into consideration the fact that we're dealing with a relatively fresh Death Metal band, "Unearthly Monument" may be deemed a decent debut album. Nevertheless, it's nothing more than an average one on a global scale as it sounds like one excessively long song composed of eleven tracks; for the twelfth thankfully came to slightly break the prevailing pattern.

The scales are roughly the same to a point that makes you unaware of the ending of a track and the beginning of another, even though there are some tempo shifts from time to time best exploited in "Feeding Frenzy" where a low tempo bass drum pedal intro turns into a high tempo verse, then a guitar arpeggio cut between the bars precedes a lower tempo again with open chords followed by with sixteenth notes and a mini bass solo, as well as a few drum cuts and headbanging passages such as in "Infernal Gathering".  Let me also put emphasis on the weird recording quality that has made the drum snares sound like a kettle, especially that the instrumentation seems to rely mainly on drums to a point that the latter literally overwhelms the other instruments. However the drumming merits some attention as some varied splash, Chinese, bells, ride cymbals and toms were smoothly blended together, but weren't unfortunately able prevent unnecessary overloading of "The Triumph Of Death" with crushes which made the song a bit hard to assimilate. A good rewarding point was the bass drum pedaling in "Age Of Annihilation" however a bit altered by the same disrupting heavy snares.

Moving to the remaining instruments, it wasn't that big deal as 90% of the guitar play consisted either of tremolo or open chords (sometimes thrashy or palm-muted) added to that undefined slides, some overdriven or distorted arpeggios scattered in the verses -or better- mini effortless guitar -and sometimes bass- solos that were hardly of a plus to the album. Again, "simplicity creates beauty" one says but overtly simple may mean soulless, and the only exception is the last track "Antimortem Autopsy" (in which "antemortem" was misspelled) which begins with peculiar church organ and piano low tempo intro, where something is clearly different concerning the guitar play, then everything goes back to the same scheme with a small bass appearance, but this is by far the most consistent track with more complex chords followed by guitar arpeggio, before an isolated echoed fingering that fades out. Dealing with vocals, the tracks present growls often backed by screams as in "Age Of Annihilation" despite a general feeling that the lead singer is a bit struggling with growls, perhaps barely able to perform a growl common speech, something that made the lyrics a bit unclear to fathom.

To conclude, I'd say this album could have been a better work if the guitar play were a bit more challenging, all while avoiding the misuse of crushes and enhancing the quality sound of snares.