Overcome by All That Remains

Overcome, the fourth All That Remains album, hit stores on September 16, 2008, through Prosthetic and Razor & Tie, and it meant a change of scenery for the Springfield, Massachusetts band. Adam Dutkiewicz, who had produced their earlier records, was too busy, so Jason Suecof took the job and the band headed down to Florida to cut it, straight off the road, which Mike Martin admitted was a grind. It was also Jason Costa's first album behind the kit, with Philip Labonte out front, Oli Herbert and Martin on guitars and Jeanne Sagan on bass.

Labonte promised a darker, more biting record than The Fall of Ideals, loaded with double bass drumming, hooks and something like twenty guitar solos. Screams, rapid-fire riffs and pummeling kick drums trade off against clean, soaring choruses, and the whole thing comes out glossier than before. "Forever In Your Hands" is the song that made the countdowns, and For We Are Many followed.

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