I love bands like All That Remains, who fuse elements from many metal subgenres into their mainly metalcore sound.
This song has strong thrash (the verse guitar riffs), death metal (the drums for the whole song), and melodic death metal (the breakdown guitar riffs and solo) influences.
Singer Phil Labonte takes cues from his contemporaries Jesse Leach and Brian Fair of Killswitch Engage and Shadows Fall respectively. He mixes those hardcore shouts with sublime clean vocals, that match this song's progression wonderfully - and this is what cements this song as having your typical metalcore sound.
The instrumentation is predictably tight and precise - listen to how locked in the drums, guitars and bass are during the intro/verse passages. It has everything to make you want to circle headbang and mosh.
Give the album this song comes from a listen, The Fall Of Ideals, is a fantastic melodic metalcore release, produced by none other than the legendary Adam D from Killswitch Engage.
This Calling
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