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All That Remains formed in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1998, born from a side project that vocalist Philip Labonte started after leaving Shadows Fall, the fellow Springfield metalcore band he had originally fronted. Phil Labonte had been an original founding member as the singer of Shadows Fall, and after being asked to leave, Phil looked to start a new band and thus formed All That Remains. At first, the band started as a side project that Philip Labonte formed, but became a full-time project after witnessing the growing popularity they gained. The early lineup took shape around Labonte and guitarist Oli Herbert, who Labonte first recruited on his guitar teacher's recommendation, with Herbert auditioning for the band and ending up joining, rounded out by Chris Bartlett and Michael Bartlett on lead guitar and drums. The band's 2002 debut, Behind Silence and Solitude, released through Prosthetic Records, differed from their later metalcore sound and more prominently contained elements of melodic death metal. The band's true breakthrough arrived with their third album. This Darkened Heart was the first album with guitarist Mike Martin, while their third album, The Fall of Ideals, was released on July 11, 2006, through Prosthetic Records. That lineup, featuring vocalist Phil Labonte, late lead guitarist Oli Herbert, rhythm guitarist Mike Martin, bassist Jeanne Sagan and drummer Shannon Lucas, was produced by Killswitch Engage cohort Adam Dutkiewicz , and the record proved pivotal. The album is considered the band's breakthrough release, entering the Billboard 200 charts at number 75, selling almost 13,000 copies in its first week. Its momentum was amplified by the band's relentless touring and choice song placements in Guitar Hero II and the Saw III soundtrack, which catapulted All That Remains into the national spotlight and secured their position as one of the giants in the metalcore scene. The band also joined the road that year as part of Ozzfest 2006. The 2010s brought the band's greatest commercial heights. Their 2010 album For We Are Many sold 29,000 copies in its first week and peaked at number 10 on the U.S. Billboard 200, and was their first album to top the Hard Rock Albums Billboard chart. Two years later, "Stand Up," released from their sixth album, A War You Cannot Win, on August 13, 2012, reached number one on the Mainstream Rock chart in the U.S. , becoming, their most significant chart achievement and defining mainstream moment. Overall, the band earned three Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) certification awards for their songs and recorded six top-ten hits on the American Billboard Mainstream Rock chart. Tragedy struck in 2018 when founding lead guitarist Oli Herbert was found dead at the edge of a pond on his Stafford Springs, Connecticut, property, at just 44 years old , a loss that remains an open investigation to this day and that led the band, by Labonte's own account, to question whether All That Remains could continue at all.
The band pressed on, rebuilding around Labonte and longtime guitarist Mike Martin. Jason Richardson, formerly of Chelsea Grin and Born of Osiris, eventually stepped into Herbert's place, first as a touring member, then as full-time lead guitarist , though the COVID-19 pandemic soon halted whatever momentum All That Remains were restarting. After a long gap, the band returned in 2025 with their tenth studio album, Antifragile, released independently on January 31, 2025, marking their first album to not feature founding guitarist Oli Herbert and longtime drummer Jason Costa, who had been with the band since 2008 until his 2023 departure. Critics have generally received the record as a solid comeback that doesn't reinvent the wheel, heavy and punchy but sticking to familiar territory, with longtime fans enjoying the return to form. Nearly three decades since forming, All That Remains remains active and continues to tour, standing as one of the enduring names to emerge from the fertile Massachusetts metalcore scene of the late 1990s.
This archive holds a small but meaningful piece of that long history. Wayne Dennon photographed All That Remains on two occasions between 2006 and 2008, capturing the band right in the thick of the touring and momentum that followed their breakthrough with The Fall of Ideals. Those nights live on here in 68 photographs, images that visitors have returned to view more than 52,000 times, a quiet testament to both the band's staying power and to Wayne's eye for documenting metal's road-worn, sweat-soaked energy up close.
