''The Fall of Ideals'' is the third studio album by the American heavy metal band All That Remains, released on July 11, 2006. Three music videos were created for the songs "This Calling", "Not Alone" and "The Air That I Breathe". It is the only All That Remains release with drummer

Shannon Lucas Shannon Lucas (born September 27, 1983) is an American heavy metal drummer from Staunton, Virginia. He is best known as the former drummer for melodic death metal band the Black Dahlia Murder and metalcore band All That Remains. Career Lu ...

and the band's first album to feature bassist

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. Musically, the album features a more

melodic metalcore Melodic metalcore is a fusion genre, incorporating elements of melodic death metal and metalcore; it has a heavy emphasis on melodic instrumentation, distorted guitar tones, palm mute, palm muting, double bass drumming, blast beats, metalcore-sty ...

sound the band would be known for. Considered a landmark in the metalcore genre, the album has been said to have "set the template" for future metalcore bands that would follow.

Style

According to ''

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'', "''The Fall of Ideals'' represents the pinnacle of ll That Remains'focused headbanging metalcore era." Phillip Labonte's screams on the album have been described as "deep," and Oli Herbert's guitar riffs are described as "intense". The album's

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makes use of

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guitar work, as well as what Greg Prato of ''

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'' describes as "chug-a-lug riffs," drawing comparison to

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and

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Overview

''The Fall of Ideals'' was produced by the

Killswitch Engage Killswitch Engage is an American metalcore band from Westfield, Massachusetts, formed in 1999. The band's current lineup consists of vocalist Jesse Leach, guitarists Joel Stroetzel and Adam Dutkiewicz, bassist Mike D'Antonio, and drummer Justin ...

guitarist,

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, and engineered by the

Soilwork Soilwork is a Swedish melodic death metal band from Helsingborg. They have released twelve studio albums. Formed in late 1995 by Björn Strid and Peter Wichers, the band was originally known as ''Inferior Breed''. In late 1996, they changed t ...

guitarist Peter Wichers. The album was the band's first to enter the ''Billboard'' 200 charts, at number 75, with just under 13,000 copies sold. On May 23, 2008, it was announced that the album had sold in excess of 175,000 copies worldwide. The song "Six" is featured in ''

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''. "This Calling" is available as downloadable content for ''

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'' and is also used as the lead track for the ''Saw III'' soundtrack and on the ''Masters of Horror II'' soundtrack.

Reception

Greg Prato of ''

'' gave the album an average review, saying: "There's just not a lot differentiating All That Remains from the oodles of other metal bands vying for

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spots circa 2006."

Track listing

Personnel

;All That Remains *

Philip Labonte Philip Steven Labonte (born April 15, 1975) is an American singer, best known as the lead singer of the metalcore band All That Remains. He is the former lead vocalist for Shadows Fall, was the touring vocalist for Killswitch Engage in early ...

– vocals * Oli Herbert – lead guitar * Mike Martin – rhythm guitar *

– bass guitar *

– drums ;Production * Produced and mixed by

* Engineered by

Peter Wichers Peter Wichers (born 8 February 1979) is a Swedish guitarist, songwriter and record producer best known as one of the founding members of melodic death metal band Soilwork. From 1995 until late 2005, when he announced his departure from the ban ...

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by Alan Douches * A&R by EJ Johantgen and Dan Fitzgerald

Charts

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Fall Of Ideals, The 2006 albums All That Remains (band) albums Prosthetic Records albums Razor & Tie albums Albums produced by Adam Dutkiewicz Albums with cover art by Travis Smith (artist)