A War You Cannot Win by All That Remains

A War You Cannot Win, the sixth album from Springfield, Massachusetts metal crew All That Remains, arrived through Razor & Tie on November 6, 2012, with Adam Dutkiewicz producing. The lineup was a settled one: founder Philip Labonte out front, Oli Herbert and Mike Martin on guitars, Jeanne Sagan on bass and backing vocals, and Jason Costa on drums.

It's a record split down the middle. Some of it still runs on melodic metalcore's usual fuel, twin-guitar harmonies and Labonte lurching between a roar and a croon; the rest drops the screaming entirely for straight, clean-sung heavy metal with arena-sized hooks. It sold more than 25,000 copies in its first week in the US to land at number 13 on the Billboard 200, and it had moved 123,000 there by early 2015.

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