• Source: Madness (All That Remains album)

Madness is the eighth studio album by American metal band All That Remains. It was released on April 28, 2017, on Razor & Tie Records. Madness is the first studio album produced by Howard Benson, as well as the first album to feature bassist Aaron Patrick. While this is the band's next-to-last album with guitarist Oli Herbert, it is also their last album to be released in his lifetime.




Background


Vocalist Phil Labonte told Revolver magazine about band's approach on the new disc: "We wanted to mix it up a little bit and write from a vocal perspective this time. So I went to L.A. and came up with vocal ideas and melodies and then sent those chord progressions back to Oli Herbert and he wrote riffs in response to that. Doing it this way turned the record into a vocal album as opposed to a guitar album. And that affected some things. Like, there might be less intricacy in the riffs because they were written in response to my voice."




Musical style


Labonte added that the majority of the new songs features "significant programming and electronic sounds. And that's something we wanted to have flowing through the entire record. So you're gonna hear that kind of influence on most of the tracks."
Phil also stated: "On this record, there's five songs on the record that are exactly what you would expect from All That Remains. There's some songs where we kind of were, like, 'All right, let's push this and maybe change what we can do, or what All That Remains is allowed to do.' But it ain't like we're not heavy anymore. And if you're just, like, 'Oh, they're not heavy anymore,' then you're just not listening."




Reception



The album received mixed reviews. Aaron J. Marko of Exclaim! described the album as mediocre, generic and archaic. Christopher Di Carlo of Overdrive magazine, on the other hand, described the album as beautiful yet heavy.




Track listing


All lyrics written by Phil Labonte; all music composed by All That Remains, except "The Thunder Rolls," written by Garth Brooks and Pat Alger.




Personnel






= All That Remains

=
Philip Labonte – lead vocals, art direction, cover design
Oli Herbert – lead guitar
Mike Martin – rhythm guitar
Aaron Patrick – bass guitar, backing vocals
Jason Costa – drums




= Additional musicians

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Mark Sereikas – additional guitar on "Thunder Rolls"
Benny Goodman – piano/keyboards and additional engineering/production on Thunder Rolls at Speak EZ Studios, Randolph, MA
Cory Paza – bass and additional engineering/production on Thunder rolls at Speak EZ Studios, Randolph, MA



Freedom Chorus

Diamante (also does additional vocals on "Thunder Rolls")
Meron Ryan
Sidnie Tipton
Lenny Skolnik
Seann Bowe




= Production

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Howard Benson – production, mixing
Mike Plotnikoff – co-production, engineering
Hatsukazu "Hatch" Inagaki – engineering
Shaun Ezrol and Carl Stoodt – assistant engineering
Bob Ludwig – mastering
Lenny Skolnik, Seann Bowe, Howard Benson – keyboards and programming
Marc VanGool – guitar tech
Jon Nicholson at Drum Fetish – drum tech
Joe Rickard – pre-production, drum programming
Igor Khoroshev – string arrangement on "Back to You"
Paul DeCarli – digital editing
Nick Haussling – A&R
Tom Gnolfo – A&R administration
Diamante Azzura – backing vocals
Josh Strock – composition




Charts






References

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