Track Listing

1. Century II
2. Empty Shell
3. Dead Before I Stray
4. Guardian
5. The Inexorable
6. Fortitudine
7. Beyond Treachery
8. None Shall Pass
9. Prolouge The To Campaign

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #68158 in Music
• Released on: 2005-03-08
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

About the Artist
Conceived in May 2001 in Ft. Lauderdale, FL by drummer Matthew Gossman, Into the Moat started as a one-man project. Matthew recorded all the instruments for several demo tracks and showed them to friends to complete the band. Once the line up was set, Into The Moat started playing countless shows working on their live performances, which can only be described as intense and powerful, taking full command of the unsuspecting audience. Their style was refined in January of 2002 as then bassist, Kit Wray, moved onto guitar and assumed the main song writing responsibilities

Constantly working on live shows and fine-tuning their sound, Into The Moat have unquestionably proven themselves to be a necessity to a scene lusting for something new, bringing a redefined sense of creativity and talent to the forefronts of metal. From neck snapping blast beats and time changes to catchy and brutal break downs, Into The Moat is sure to stand out among the masses of bands in the same genre.

Customer Reviews

More blistering tech-metal
As is so often the case, the truth about Into the Moat lies somewhere in between what the varying factions claim. In short, they do sound quite a lot like The Dillinger Escape Plan, but they should hardly be slagged off as nothing but mere pretenders. What it comes down to is this: Into the Moat are a tech-metalcore band, and The Dillinger Escape Plan's 'Calculating Infinity' is pretty much the definitive and best known tech-metalcore album. Complaining about them as DEP knockoffs makes about as much sense as saying that every thrash band is just a Metallica ripoff. (Still, that whole it's like comparing Megadeth to Morbid Angel thing that other guy said is way over selling the point. They're pretty damn similar, and occupy the same basic niche, unlike those two bands.)

That said, this is definitely metalcore, not death metal. Honestly, the division between tech-core and tech-death is usually pretty damn superficial, but in these superficial ways, (vox, guitar tone etc.) they lean more towards the core stuff. Still, it's got some death metal flavor to it, and it's more serious and straight forward than lots of tech-core. The jazz influence is massive, with quite a few softer jazz interludes and tons of sharp, jazz licks throughout the heavier parts (In this way, they remind me a lot of Psyopus. I'd say this comparison is more relevant than the DEP one, as they tend to come across as a slightly conventionalized, more bruising Psyopus.) Tempo and time changes abound, naturally, though they actually like to slow it down a bit more than most bands of this sort. This doesn't cut down on the technicality, however, they just make the slow parts all the more ridiculous and nasty, and particularly love the whole sudden alternation between ultra slow grooves and blast beats. Overall, this is some very, very complicated stuff, even by the standards of the genre. The guitar tone is somewhat bassier, more deathy than your usual metalcore band, though it's not at all messy, particularly in the higher parts which are extremely sharp and clear. And, overall, the feel and songwriting of the band are just a bit more, well, rockin' than you'd here from Psyopus or DEP, which tend to be more of a blur. The vocals, ehh, they might as well not be there. Two voices, one which is total metalcore, the other could pass itself of as either core or death. (Though I'd say it leans slightly towards metalcore, overall.) There are no particularly interesting vocal lines, nor is anything catchy, but this is pretty much par the course for this kind of music.

The tracks do tend to blend together a bit, but it's all exciting enough while you're listening to it that this isn't too much of a caveat. Suffice to say, I can't imagine any reason why tech-metal fans wouldn't like this.

Calculating their own Infinty.
INTO THE MOAT - The Design
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This album is basically taking off where Dillinger's, Calculating Infinity left off. For fans of DEP that may have been disappoint with Miss Machine, this album should be what you are looking for. Despite their obvious influence of DEP they truly have put the right foot forward in developing a sound of their own. Into the Moat seems to be a band that knows their limits... Any time they get close to pushing the limit to obscurity they will add in some jazzy fusion riff. Musically they are very tight. The drum work is initially what caught my attention. Guitars and Bass seem pretty standard for start/stop tech metal. Vocally it is well driven. Definite older hardcore feel... Perfectly suited for the genre... However I would like to hear some more "talking" Spoken word style vocals.
All in all this album is really quite good for the over-saturation of Tech/Math-Metal which is beginning to plague the scene.
Favorite Songs: Empty Shell, Guardian.
4.0 - Stars

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This is an incredible Tech metal release.
If you are a fan of uncontrollable, fast, but intelligent music this album is what you are looking for. This is The Dillinger Escape Plan meets From A Second Story Window. They combine DEP's over the top, complex, technical, and unpredictable song writting formula and merge it with FASSW's brutality. This album has incredible diversity and will impress almost anyone, who likes off beat music. These guys are not perfect though. They sometimes feel a little flat. This album is like a slightly old coke. Semi flat, but still refreshing and fizzy enough. Before you buy it I advise you to listen to some of the full songs. Check out thier Myspace & Purevolume. If you like what you hear, I highly advise you buy this.