ALL THAT REMAINS Completes Recording New Album

Massachusetts metallers ALL THAT REMAINS have accomplished the recording course of for his or her long-awaited follow-up to 2018’s “Sufferer Of The New Illness” album.

Earlier right this moment (Monday, April 15),ALL THAT REMAINS vocalist Phil Labonte took to his account on X, the platform previously often known as Twitter, to put in writing: “we simply completed monitoring the file.”

Two months in the past, Labonte spoke concerning the progress of the recording classes for ALL THAT REMAINS‘ new album throughout an interview with Rock Feed. He mentioned on the time: “I am actual decided to get music out — I need it to be out by April. I need it to be out on the finish of quarter one. So if I can get it out within the final week of March, first week of April, to have our first single from the file come out… We’re fairly positive we chosen it.

“Proper now I am sitting in one of many dressing rooms at Henson [Recording Studios] in Los Angeles. It is a historiful place [being the former headquarters for A&M Records and the location of A&M Recording Studios]. I imply, Charlie Chaplin‘s lot is right here. Studio A, they did ‘We Are The World’ in. They blended [METALLICA‘s] Black File right here. They blended [Dr. Dre‘s] ‘The Continual’ right here. So I am on this superior place with all this historical past.

“That is our second journey right here doing drums,” he continued. “We did 4 songs the primary journey and that was in June [of 2023]. And now we’re doing 4 extra, after which we have got one other session booked in March to complete up the drums. And that ought to be the final of precise monitoring. Every part ought to be achieved. We would have some odds and ends, like possibly some solo stuff and noodley stuff. However we ought to be achieved monitoring by the center of March, and that may imply the discharge of the primary tune finish of March, starting of April can be no drawback. Then we’ll have the file most likely out in June. We’re taking a look at a tour in Might into June, as a result of we have got some festivals that we lined up, and we’re placing another stuff collectively. So we’re gonna be busy this yr. We’re gonna do some touring. We’re gonna have new music.”

Concerning why it has taken six years for ALL THAT REMAINS to finish a brand new album, Phil mentioned: “It has been a very long time coming as a result of — effectively, I imply one million causes: due to COVID, as a result of we had some authorized actions with our label. We’re now not on a label. We’re self-releasing it. So we’re self-financing. We’re gonna personal it, which is a big milestone. We had an awesome settlement with our label. We have been imagined to have one other file, however they allow us to go and so they allow us to enterprise out on our personal, which was superior. I’ve bought tons of affection for Fearless and Harmony Music Group and stuff, ‘trigger they allow us to do our factor. In order that’s superior. And we’re gonna get it out as quickly as we will. We do not need to rush it.”

Labonte added: “We began the classes [for the new album] — actually, the primary time that I bought along with Josh Wilbur, who’s producing it. Josh Wilbur, you guys know him from TRIVIUM, from LAMB OF GOD, from a ton of [other bands]. He is labored with us [before]. He did [2015’s] ‘The Order Of Issues’, he produced that one, he blended ‘Sufferer Of The New Illness’, so we have got numerous historical past with him. However he is right here [in Los Angeles], and we began with him — I feel it was 2021, is definitely once we began with him. He got here out the primary time and began engaged on some riffs and a few concepts. After which we bought our first like actual tune collectively in February of final yr, the place I bought with Josh and wrote lyrics for a tune. It was really a tune that Jason [Richardson, ALL THAT REMAINS guitarist] wrote the entire thing and form of gave it to us. And in order that’s gonna be — that’ll most likely be the primary one. I am not gonna give out the title but. But it surely’s gonna be an awesome debut for Jason Richardson.”

Talking concerning the addition of Richardson, who changed late ALL THAT REMAINS guitarist Oli Herbert greater than 5 years in the past, Phil mentioned: “He is tremendous inventive, so it is a ton of enjoyable. And this being his debut with us, we needed it to be proper. Not solely is it the primary file that we have put out with out Oli Herbert, which took us a very long time to form of get used to the thought and determine what meaning and what it seems to be like and every kind of issues that needed to occur since Oli handed away. However this being the primary file that comes out with Jason, we would like it to be proper. There’s not gonna be any half-assed [songs] on this in any respect. There’s not any deep cuts — nothing in any respect. Proper now we’re eight songs in and there is zero deep cuts. Each single tune that we have got, if another person was, like, ‘Oh, let’s put this one out as the primary single,’ it might be superb. That will work as a primary single. And that is a giant, huge deal. Often you may hear three or 4 songs or 5 and also you’re, like, ‘Yeah, we have got some killer songs on this file. We have six nice songs.’ And there is 10 or 11 songs on the file and also you’re, like, ‘Yeah, these different ones are cool, however we did not have the time to do with them what we needed. They did not fairly come out the best way we would like, and the file label needs to have this many songs on the file, so we do not have time to…’ blah, blah, blah. ‘We have a deadline.’ So you find yourself making compromises, and since we’re doing it ourselves, placing it out ourselves and we have got a profession and we’re tremendous lucky that folks nonetheless take heed to our music and we have nonetheless bought individuals on the market that help us, so we will take the time to ship the file that the followers deserve.”

Final July, longtime ALL THAT REMAINS drummer Jason Costa introduced his departure from the group, citing “deeply private” causes that “don’t have anything to do with any drama or something throughout the band.”

Jason was the featured drummer on the final six ALL THAT REMAINS albums: “Overcome” (2008),“For We Are Many” (2010),”A Struggle You Can’t Win” (2012),“The Order Of Issues” (2015),“Insanity” (2017) and “Sufferer Of The New Illness” (2018). He’s notable for being one of many few heavy metallic drummers to play solely with the “conventional grip.”

Again in March 2022, Costa left ALL THAT REMAINS‘ U.S. tour so as to “take care of some private issues.” He was quickly changed by Anthony Barone, who had beforehand performed with BENEATH THE MASSACRE and SHADOW OF INTENT.

Earlier final yr, ALL THAT REMAINS‘s breakthrough album “The Fall Of Beliefs”, was licensed gold by the Recording Business Affiliation Of America (RIAA) for gross sales in extra of 500,000 copies in the USA.

In 2022, ALL THAT REMAINS launched into “The Fall Of Beliefs” Fifteenth-anniversary tour.

“The Fall Of Beliefs” was reissued in November 2021. The very best-selling title options such fan favorites as “This Calling”, “Six” and “The Air That I Breathe”.

Oli was discovered lifeless on October 16, 2018 on the fringe of the pond on his Stafford Springs, Connecticut property. He was reported lacking by his spouse about 3 p.m., and his physique was discovered by police face down on the fringe of the pond the place the water was only some inches deep. The medical expert’s workplace performed an post-mortem exhibiting that Oli had three prescribed drugs in his system — the antipsychotic olanzapine, the antidepressant citalopram, and Ambien. It additionally mentioned: “Mr. Herbert‘s previous medical historical past is reportedly important for marijuana use.”