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All That Remains

this Darkened Heart

Prosthetic Records

Line-up changes are inevitable in any band. As times change, so do individual band members? tastes and musical visions. So, when Phil Labonte left Shadow?s Fall to concentrate full-time on his other outlet, All That Remains, it probably didn?t raise as many eyebrows as it should have.

Since then, Shadow?s Fall has become one of the top acts this country has produced, perhaps this era?s answer to the Bay Area thrash movement that gave the world Metallica.

What has remained from the split is two technically proficient bands that inject the genre with passion, urgency, and charm. On its sophomore album, this Darkened Heart, ATR delivers an album that combines light and shade with hardcore;...

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