My personal surprise for the year 2004 has been TOWER OF ROME. I already heard of these guys, as they released a demo which made me turn into them, but their debut LP is something fantastic. “All is Lost, All is Lost, All is Yet To Be Found” is an 11 song album for less than 10 minutes, which means, it’s seriously fast !! The music of TOWER OF ROME is pure grind-core, made of super fast guitar riffs, screaming vocals and straight in your face lyrics. Songs like ” are genius, and even tough the band remind me of ENVY, but faster and more furious, these guys have got the talent to go on and keep on releasing quality music. On a side note, the artwork of the disc, made by Electricheat.org, is amazing.