2005-07-13
All Shall Perish have been relatively unknown as of now, small wonder as their debut album was released only in Japan until recently being re-released by metal giants Nuclear Blast, hopefully, they will now receive the recognition they so righteously deserve.
The band created something of a new classic, meaning, an old-school album in an age bereft of such albums, though a few bands such as Bloodbath and Six Feet Under continue this blessed tradition, they are few and far-between.
The band creates a strong infusion of Old-school death metal with some melodic elements with a few metal-core elements thrown in for good measure, and it all sound good and brutal to me.
They're main power is in the sold riffs they write, the opener, Deconstruction has quite a few of these, most tend towards the more melodic aspect of brutal death metal, remise cent of riffs by such bands as Malevolent Creation,
Some of the riffs go though a more Sludge-like rhythm, and there are even some thrash sounding ones, like the middle section in Never Ending War, sounding very Slayer-like.
Vocals are a strong feature as well, fluctuating between a low-guttural growl, to a higher, more metal-core one,
Rhythm section is hard top fault, with Laid To Rest ending with a great bass-line, very Cannibal Corpse-like.
Lyrics are a definite metal-core aspect, dealing in gloomy relationships mostly, with some misanthropy and depression thrown in for the hell of it.
Though the album is not a going to revolutionize metal as we know it, it grows on you fast, as I said, an instant classic album, enjoyable to old-school aficionados like me, and immediately likable to young, more brutal-leaning metal heads as well.
Alon Miasnikov
