Performer Magazine (Live Review) “Because their music is faster, more intricate, and overwhelmingly more complex than almost anything else in Atlanta, it’s not difficult to see why these guys are drawing such huge crowds…. Although From Exile is firmly rooted in metal, they manage to be so progressive in their approach that they transcend the genre…. [They] are architects of something uniform, whole, and massive.”

Creative Loafing Cribnotes“From Exile isn’t really a metal band per se. Metal is certainly an influence, and “prog” applies, but both terms walk all over the subtle intricacies of the music. It’s fast and complex, but the music’s many working parts don’t draw attention to themselves — the music has more in common with Fugazi than Rush, and it’s more on akin to Kylesa than King Crimson.This dynamic really stood out in a bleak, but expansive cover of Nine Inch Nail’s “Ruiner.”

METALSUCKS.NET“The band makes seemingly effortless shifts from Gothenburgian dual-guitar shred to Megadethian thrash-gallop to soaring blues metal to druggy, proggy post-rock to Crowbarian molasses… and that’s all within the first four songs.”

Deaf Sparrow “4/5. The music is hyper technical, polished, impeccable and progressive. There is a shine to it, no roughness in sight.”

Cerebral Metalhead Review “Listen here for prog-metal without pretense, a huge album that packs a two-disc Dream Theater album’s worth of musical fireworks and superior writing into its meager 32 minutes.”

No Clean Singing Review “Monolith is quite evidently the product of a shitload of thought, work, and attention to detail…..  The album threads together arena-rock riffs, sublimely beautiful meditations, heavy-as-shit headbanging chuggery, blistering solos, and soaring anthems”

The Number of the Blog Review “From Exile exhibit a keen sense of melody while keeping things impressively heavy…. creating a strong sense of continuity”

From Exile – Monolith on metalunderground.com“‘Monolith’ is not only for instrumental/progressive-obsessed music nerds, but those that value substance over monotonous metal clichés.”

Ohmpark.com – Best New Atlanta Music “Monolith perfectly manages to extract everything great about prog and metal without retaining any of the bullshit.”

Mark Lee’s Blog (Russia) “….. amazing because they are not taken up by just one genre.”

Munson’s Metal Madness “Crushing blows followed by majestic and glorious guitar solos, this is most definitely an album that fans of quality shred must hear. For those who are fans of brilliant songwriting, this is also a must hear. When you put this album on, be sure that you have set aside time to listen to it in its entirety, both to do it justice, and because you won’t be able to stop listening until the album is over.”

SUNYATA – Mindful of Metal “This is reassuring, empowering, raise your fist to the sky and bang your head kind of stuff. If I heard this back in the day I would have played it until the cassette wore out…. What is surprising is the caliber of songwriting skill From Exile have to go along with the chops”

SkullsNBones.com – Metal Mark’s Review of From Exile – Monolith “You won’t want this CD to end”