ALL THAT REMAINS Frontman Says New Album Will Have Much More Vocal Variety

March 17, 2006

ALL THAT REMAINS, the Massachusetts-based act featuring former SHADOWS FALL vocalist Philip Labonte, entered Zing Recording Studios in Westfield, Massachusetts, earlier this month to begin recording the yet-untitled follow-up to 2004's "This Darkened Heart". Labonte told MTV.com that the disc should be mixed and mastered come mid-April and prepped for release either the first or second week of July — to coincide with the group's second-stage slot at this year's Ozzfest.

"We've got 11 new tracks, and we're going to go ahead and redo a track from our first release [2002's 'Behind Silence and Solitude'] called 'Follow', " the singer told MTV.com. "We're going to take a fresh look at an old song. I'm not sure if that will be on the U.S. release — it could end up being an import track.

"We've got that blazing double-bass, that fast metal drumming and there will be a significant increase in vocal variety," Labonte said. "We're going to have more singing, but there's also going to be more of that death-metal, Cookie Monster growl — that old CANNIBAL CORPSE, 'Tomb of the Mutilated' stuff. There's going to be more of that shout, like THE HAUNTED.

"There's a bunch of different things I want to try on this record," he continued. "It won't be just more singing, because singing sells records. It's more variety — there's a bunch of stuff we like that I can do. I'm sort of a master of none — I don't have the highest highs or the cleanest cleans, and I'm not the best singer in the world, but I can cover a lot of bases and do it well. We're also just trying to solidify what the ALL THAT REMAINS sound is — it's just going to be more of what we did last time."

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