Under Siege is a band from Hannover (Germany). The band started three years ago when a couple of young guys wanted to play metal-orientated hardcore, which is normally called metalcore.
The biography I got with this album states some strange things. It says for example that the scene is flooded with releases and bands trying to crank out some average metal-riffs to mix it up with mosh-parts and breakdowns you have heard a thousand times before. According to the biography 80% of the so called metalcore bands these days are completely dispensable. So there’s 20% left and these bands are done with playing boring riffs to attract as many kids as possible. Bands that focus on quality song writing and musical progression instead. The biography says that Under Siege is one of those 20%.

Okay; while putting this album in my CD-player I was very curious. The first thing I noticed is that Under Siege is just an average metalcore band not that special as the biography says.

So for the guy who wrote this biography “please stop saying that kind of things when the band isn’t special in any way”.
“Days Of Dying Monuments” is a nice mediocre metalcore album. As most metalcore albums this album also start with an intro. And after that the second song “Nightmare Engineer” brings us a lot of average metalcore. While listening this album there’s something I miss: the brutality that normally comes with a good metalcore album.

Best parts of the album are the guest vocals by Johannes Formella from Destiny. This guy sounds better and more brutal than Henning (vocalist from Under Siege).
This album contains 12 songs with 7 new songs and 5 songs from the sold out split CD they did with A Traitor Like Judas. This is really a good thing for the fans who didn’t have the split-album.
“Days Of Dying Monuments” is an average metalcore album with metal-riffs mixed up with mosh-parts and breakdowns; nothing more nothing less.