ALL THAT REMAINS Vocalist Not Worrying About SHADOWS FALL

Live-Metal.net conducted an interview with ALL THAT REMAINS vocalist Phil Labonte prior to the band's sold-out show at Jaxx in Springfield, Va. Excerpts follow.

Live-Metal.net: Aside from playing last and playing longer, what are the big differences between headlining and being a supporting band?

Phil Labonte: Well, it's your show. We make the rules. We decide how long the other bands play for. It's fairly standard. Most tours do about the same thing, but it's like if we need to take longer for soundcheck, we take longer, and no one really can say anything. Like, the other night they parked in front of Irving Plaza. It's New York City. We've got a bus. There's only one place we can park. So when we pulled up, we were like, "Hey. Move your vans. We've gotta park there." It's that kind of stuff. It makes it nice. It makes it way easier than doing a supporting band tour, I'll tell you that much.

Live-Metal.net: How long do you plan on touring in support of this album?

Phil Labonte: Definitely the rest of the year.

Live-Metal.net: When do you think you'll get to recording again?

Phil Labonte: We'll probably go in January, February next year. Something like that, depending on Adam's [producer/KILLWITCH ENGAGE guitarst Adam Dutkiewicz] schedule. We've already talked to him, and we want him to produce our next one, and we'll make adjustments in our schedule to make sure that we can work together. But depending on his schedule, really, it's probably gonna be January, maybe February. Something like that. We'll see.

Live-Metal.net: You were the original singer of SHADOWS FALL. I never really heard the story. Was it just time to make a change?

Phil Labonte: What happened was Brian [Fair], who is their current singer, the band that he was in broke up. When I tried out, they were like, "Oh, can you do stuff like Brian from OVERCAST?" And I was like, "OK, I'll try." I kind of had my own sound. I didn't sound like Brian, and when he became available, they were like, "Look, we want to get another singer. We want to get Brian." I was like, "OK, cool." There's no hard feelings or anything like that 'cause I knew it was the dude they had in mind in the first place and also I had already started writing stuff for ALL THAT REMAINS. We had probably three songs put together, so I was just like, "Alright, whatever." SHADOWS FALL wasn't — I mean, obviously SHADOWS FALL wasn't nearly as far along as they are now. They didn't even have a record deal at the time. So it's not like it was like, "Oh god, what could have been," you know? It was like, "Whatever." And last time we played here with SHADOWS FALL, it wasn't sold out. And they were headlining. We're headlining tonight and it's sold out, so I'm not sweating. I'm not sweating. I don't worry about what SHADOWS FALL does anymore, not even a little bit. I was never the dude that was like, "Oh my god." It never bothered me. We were always friends and stuff like that, but now, whatever. I don't care.

Read the entire interview at Live-Metal.net.