All Shall Perish

Infobox Musical artist
Name = All Shall Perish


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Alias = ASP
Origin = Oakland, California, USA
Genre = Deathcore, technical death metalFact|date=September 2008
Years_active = 2002–present
Label = Nuclear Blast
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URL = [http://www.allshallperish.com/ www.allshallperish.com]
Current_members = Hernan Hermida Chris Storey Ben Orum Mike Tiner Matt Kuykendall
Past_members = Caysen Russo
Craig Betit

All Shall Perish is a deathcore quintet from Oakland, California formed in 2002. All Shall Perish combines various genres, including death metal, deathgrind, metalcore, and sludge metal. Since 2005, All Shall Perish have delivered two records off of Nuclear Blast. The debut album, "Hate, Malice, Revenge", was originally released by Japanese record label Amputated Vein Records in 2003. In 2005, it was re-released by Nuclear Blast and since then has received mostly underground acclaim. In 2006, "The Price of Existence" was released to largely positive critical reaction. The first single, "Eradication", was made into a video and is played on MTV2's Headbanger's Ball.

Guitarist Caysen Russo and vocalist Craig Betit only appear on the band's first studio album, they were both replaced, respectively, with Chris Storey and Hernan "Eddie" Hermida by the time of their second release.

The group released their third studio album, "Awaken the Dreamers", on September 16, 2008 through Nuclear Blast. It debuted at number 126 on the "Billboard" 200 and number 1 on the Top Heatseekers charts, with 5,000 copies sold in its first week.cite web|url=http://www.mtvu.com/news/articles/1595509/20080924/metallica.jhtml|title=Metallica's "Death Magnetic" Tops Ne-Yo to Spend Second Straight Week at #1|last=Harris|first=Chris|date=2008-09-24|work=MTV News Headlines|publisher=mtvu.com|accessdate=2008-09-28]

Band members

Current members

*Hernan "Eddie" Hermida − lead vocals
*Chris Storey − lead guitar
*Ben Orum − rhythm guitar
*Mike Tiner − bass guitar
*Matt Kuykendall − drums, percussion

Former members

*Caysen Russo − lead guitar (On "Hate, Malice, Revenge")
*Craig Betit − vocals (On "Hate, Malice, Revenge")

Touring/Session members

*Luke Jaeger (World Under Blood, Sleep Terror) − rhythm guitar, tour support
*Bray Almini (Suffokate, ex-Antagony) – bass guitar, tour support
*Ian Webb − rhythm guitar, tour support

Touring

All Shall Perish have completed several successful tours across America in the past year, sharing the stage with a variety of fellow deathcore groups, including acts such as Suicide Silence, Through the Eyes of the Dead, The Red Chord, The Acacia Strain, Misery Index, Job for a Cowboy, Antagony, among many others. The band maintained a blog during their early 2006 tour, known as the "Spreading Disease" tour. It can be read on the band's official web page, as well as on their MySpace page. All Shall Perish has recently had a tour with Stick to Your Guns, War of Ages, The Warriors, and Terror. They were also on The Darkness Over Europe 2007 tour with Bleeding Through, I Killed the Prom Queen and Caliban. They often add a cover of the song "Breaking the Law" by Judas Priest to their setlist. They are currently headlining a tour with support from Emmure and From a Second Story Window. Bray Almini occasionally fills in for Mike Tiner on bass during tours.

While touring in Australia on December 19, 2007, a van carrying people associated with the tour crashed north of the town of Coffs Harbour. The members of All Shall Perish were uninjured, but the lead singer and merchandiser of death metal band The Red Shore were killed. [ [http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22947896-5001021,00.html] ] [ [http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=338262] ]

In September 2008, they toured parts of Russia and became the first all-American metal band to tour Siberia, playing shows in Irkutsch, Novosibirsk, Tomsk, and Omsk. [http://www.allshallperish.com] ]

The band were also part of the European leg of the Hell On Earth Tour 2008, with such other bands as Walls of Jericho, The Red Chord, Animosity, and Cataract.

Etymology

Matt Kuykendall has commented on the origin of the band's name, how he came up with it: "Sitting in my room in Berkeley, California, reading news websites and thinking about the fucked up shit going on in the world and my own life at the time. The name itself is a simple truism, but it's something that we all too easily forget."cite web|title = In Music We Trust - INTERVIEW: All Shall Perish? A pulverizing new death metal band|author=Mike SOS|publisher=In Music We Trust|url=http://www.inmusicwetrust.com/articles/71h02.html|accessdate=2007-06-27|year=2005]

Discography

tudio albums

Music videos

References

External links

* [http://www.allshallperish.com All Shall Perish official site]
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* [http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/interviews/interviews/all_shall_perish_its_exciting_to_see_metal_finally_gaining_recognition.html Interview with Evan Greenblo for Ultimate-Guitar.com]