Monuments Confirm ex-Periphery’s Chris Barretto as New Vocalist

by Ryan Minic | Jun 29, 2013

Monuments have confirmed Chris Barretto (ex-Periphery, Ever Forthright) as their new vocalist.

The band said, “Chris is a very well known face within the music industry, most recently for his saxophone solos on the new TesseracT album Altered State and his performance duties with The Haarp Machine on their latest espionage around Europe. We were so impressed with his performance for the haarp machine that we asked him to take over vocal duties for Monuments!”

“We’re very excited to have Chris as a part of our ever evolving sound, the new songs are sounding vocally fantastic.”

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