All That Remains reviewed by the Noise[views:2164][posts:5]______________________________________ [May 1,2004 7:53pm - Joe/NotCommon ""] ALL THAT REMAINS Prosthetic This Darkened Heart 10 songs Oh boy, here we go. Just the title of this band alone exhausts me. Can you imagine being at a party, and the only guy to talk to is in a metalcore band called All that Remains? What are you supposed to say? "Nice haircut, man, where'd ya get it, Supercuts?" I mean, I am not gonna argue for a second that this band is not good at what they do---the guitarist sounds like fuckin' Yngwie Malmsteen, for Chrissakes---it's all just so overwrought and humorless and unfun that I simply do not know what to with this album. If this was 15 years ago, I could at least melt it down into a potato chip bowl, but I can't even do that. And believe me, listening to it is outta the question. I tried that already and was almost in tears by the second song---and since it's called "The Deepest Gray," that's probably the whole idea. Anyway, in the interest of rock journalism, I will tell you that All That Remains vocalist Phil Labonte used to front Shadows Fall, that this is their second album, that was produced by metalcore superprodcuer Adam Dutkiewicz (Killswitch Engage, From Autumn to Ashes), and that I would rather get shot in the eye with an arrow than either listen to this again, or hang out at a party and talk haircuts with these tedious motherfuckers. How's that for a darkened heart? (Sleazegrinder) |
| ________________________________________________ [May 2,2004 10:53am - bane of existence 666 ""] i read that last nite they trashed my old band d'spayre back in 94 and 95 so i wasn't too shocked by that bad review the noise only like punk and alt pop bands and for the record i have the new atr cd and aside from 3 songs it not bad and there is nuthing on the cd that remotly sound like a yngewie solo |
| _______________________________________ [May 2,2004 11:00am - Joe/NotCommon ""] They gave Kevorkian's Angels a decent review. I think the tastes range from writer to writer. Sleazegrinder likes metal. |
| __________________________________ [May 2,2004 12:01pm - Sinistas ""] Good lord, that's a pretty nasty review. |
| _________________________________ [May 2,2004 1:24pm - succubus ""] wow, way to review a band based on hair cuts the person keeps refering to "metalcore" as if they don't like the genre...well then why review it when you are biased against the genre to begin with? |
| ______________________________________ [May 2,2004 5:07pm - Joe/NotCommon ""] All that Remains (or their label) sent the disc in to T Max, who then hands them down to his writers to review. So the guy had no choice. |