Rock House, sells a load of different instructional DVD with various artists. One of the new instructional sets is with Oli Herbert.

Metal Guitar Heavy Rhythms, Leads & Harmonies Levels 1 & 2 are jam-packed with the fundamental techniques that have propelled Oli into one of today’s most influential guitar players. In Level 1 Oli gives aspiring Metal guitarists insight into song writing and lead playing. He reveals the chords, inversions and voicing’s he uses to create rhythm progressions and write songs. Expanding on the techniques developed in Level 1, Level 2 explores Hungarian minor scales, scale runs and patterns, chromatic passing tone technique and many complete leads shown note by note. Oli shows students advanced lead guitar techniques and how to write a two-part harmony guitar section heard in many of his Metal compositions. Each level includes backing tracks from original All That Remains recordings to put users at the center of the band’s ground breaking sound.

The DVDs’s come iPod ready, with 32 page lesson booklet and backing tracks to play long to. You can pick up the DVD’s individually or together for a slight discount. There are other packs that includes the DVDs, the Overcome CD and some stickers. You can preorder it now but I don’t see a release date.

Visit Rockhouse.com for more information.

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Also today kicks off All That Remains tour with headliners In Flames and label-mates Gojira, with 36 Crazyfists opening the show. You can check out a tour poster after the fold. Overcome has sold more than 70,000 copies in less than two months since it’s release on September 16th.

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Tour poster courtesy of Prosthetic Records.

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All That Remains played a lot of the classic/typical songs from This Darkened Heart and The Fall Of Ideals as well as about 4 or 5 from Overcome. Any doubts about how the new songs will sound live can be put to rest. They all sounded great, even though I kind of think that they used a chorus type effect or someone doing backing vocals on the clean parts, but I could be wrong. I had a copy of Overcome that I was hoping to get signed by Phil, but that fell through when the interview fell through and I didn’t think to get it signed by Oli and Mike. I’ll still be giving that away though. Until then, enjoy the pictures.

I wish I got more good shots of Jeanne Sagan.

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Repost from ATR Myspace by Razor And Tie Media:

ALL THAT REMAINS’ NEW ALBUM “OVERCOME” DUE
OUT LATE SUMMER

WARPED TOUR NORTH AMERICAN DATES BEGIN IN LATE JULY

(New York, NY) – Road warriors All That Remains have been holed up in a studio for the past month recording their fourth release. The new album, entitled OVERCOME, is set for a late summer release and is being produced by Jason Suecof (Trivium, Chimaira, Black Dahlia Murder). ATR frontman Phil Labonte commented, “I’m really excited about this disc. It’s a pretty different sound than our last one. It’s shaping up to have a more biting tone. It’s got tons of double bass, like twenty guitar solos and more hooks. It’s a much darker record than THE FALL OF IDEALS and it’s gonna reshape what people think when they think of All That Remains.” Immediately following the completion of the album, All That Remains will join the Warped tour in progress for a three-week North American run. This will be the band’s first Warped tour. (Please see below for dates.)

Released in July, 2006, All That Remains’ last studio release, THE FALL OF IDEALS, has sold over 175,000 units to date.

Metal bible Kerrang said the album, “bears all the hallmarks of a classic…the musicianship is stunning… ruthlessly precise and powerful”, while Metal Hammer stated, “Track after track, the band leave you breathless…”

Since All That Remains’ first album was released in 2002, the band has grown in leaps and bounds in every arena. They’ve gone from playing opening slots to headlining and selling out their own tours and playing major rock festivals domestically and abroad – Ozzfest, Sounds of the Underground, Wacken: Open Air. The first single from THE FALL OF IDEALS, “This Calling” could be heard all over the country on hard rock stations and the corresponding video could be seen on MTV and Fuse. The song also appeared in the major motion picture, “Saw 3.” “Six,” another track from the album is featured in the hit video game, “Guitar Hero 2.

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ALL THAT REMAINS on Warped tour:

JULY
23 Mansfield, MA Tweeter Center
24 Darien Center, NY Darien Lake Performing Arts Center
25 Camden, NJ Susquehanna Bank Center
26 Uniondale, NY Nassau Coliseum
27 Scranton, PA Toyota Pavilion
28 Englishtown, NJ Raceway Park
29 Pittsburgh, PA Post-Gazette Pavilion at Star Lake
30 Cincinnati, OH Riverbend Music Center
31 Noblesville, IN Verizon Wireless Music Center

AUGUST
1 Milwaukee, MI Marcus Ampitheatre
2 Tinley Park, IL First Midwest Bank Ampitheatre
3 Shakopee, MN Canterbury Park
5 Saskatoon, SK Credit Union Center
6 Calgary, AB Race City Speedway
8 Napa, ID Idaho Center Ampitheater
9 George, WA Gorge Ampitheater
10 St.

Helens, OR Columbia Meadows
13 Fresno, CA Save Mart Center
14 Chula Vista Coors Ampitheater
15 Mountain View, CA Shoreline Ampitheatre
16 Marysville, CA Sleep Train Ampitheatre
17 Carson, CA The Home Depot Center

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ALL THAT REMAINS frontman Phil Labonte checks in from the studio, where the band is currently recording the follow-up to 2006’s The Fall of Ideals.

As yet untitled, the album, ALL THAT REMAINS’ fourth, is being recorded with producer Jason Suecof (The Black Dahlia Murder, Chimaira, Cannae).

“We’re in Florida workin on a new RECORD!!!” Labonte says. “The guys got here on Wednesday and we started pre-production. It didn’t take long for the stuff to come together. Jason is a great producer and he has had some really great ideas that we tried out and all most every time they worked out wonderfully.

“It’s lookin’ like it’s gonna be 11 new songs. We have a cover in the works but I’m not gonna let the cat out of the bag yet. Don’t worry, it’s a pretty sweet song and it’s not some song from the 80’s like every other band does. It’s a great song that never really got the attention it deserved.

“So yeah, 11 new ATR originals. Lots of em are kinda short. Which I like cause I have ADD so bad it’s crazy. Some stuff is very different from anything we’ve done before. That makes me pretty happy. We don’t wanna be the band that puts out the same disc two or three times in a row. There’s some pretty rockin stuff, some heavy stuff, LOTS of solos, and LOTS and LOTS of double bass. We like to keep Jason [Costa, drums] feeling like he’s more of a marathon runner than playing the drums. So yeah, the long and the short of it: the disc is coming together. Late August or early September it should be in stores n on iTunes.

Get into it!”

ALL THAT REMAINS on tour
(Warped Tour 2008)
7/23 Mansfield, MA – Tweeter Center
7/24 Darien Center, NY – Darien Lake Performing Arts Center
7/25 Camden, NJ – Susquehanna Bank Center
7/26 Uniondale, NY – Nassau Coliseum Parking Lots
7/27 Scranton, PA – Toyota Pavilion at Montage Mountain
7/28 Englishtown, NJ – Raceway Park
7/29 Pittsburgh, PA – Post Gazette Pavilion at Star Lake
7/30 Cincinnati, OH – Riverbend Music Center
7/31 Noblesville, IN – Verizon Wireless Music Center
8/01 Milwaukee, WI – Marcus Amphitheatre Summerfest
8/02 Tinley Park, IL – First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre
8/05 Saskatoon, SK – Credit Union Centre
8/06 Calgary, AB – Race City Speedway
8/09 George, WA – Gorge Amphitheatre
8/10 St. elens, OR – Columbia Meadows
8/13 Fresno, CA – Save Mart Center
8/14 Chula Vista, CA – Cricket Wireless Theatre
8/15 Mountain View, CA – Shoreline Amphitheatre
8/17 Carson, CA – Home Depot Center

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We have 10 songs done, probly gonna have more on the disc. There are a few that are very similar to stuff on TFOI but there are a few that we really took a different approach to. Most of the songs are pretty short, I have ADD. Sue me. Oli had TONS of material and I had a couple things kickin around. Once we got together and started pounding stuff out things move pretty quickly. We don’t go to Audio Hammer Studios in sunny Florida to record for a week n a half so we may have 12 or so. They may not all make it on the disc but… Yeah, so we are workin hard. NO RELEASE DATE YET. Late August or Early September. Oh yeah, I did say Audio Hammer so that means Jason Suecof will be doing the next ATR disc. We’re really pumped to be working with Jason. I’ve known him since like 97 or 96 when I was in Shad. He’s a great guy and he’s a great producer so we can’t wait to see what he’s gonna do to the songs we are bangin around with.

We don’t have a name for it and I’m not sure the release date yet but the songs have come together pretty nicely. I’m excited. We’ve never worked with Jason and I can’t wait to see what he’s gonna do to our sound. It’ll be ATR, but we are trying a few different things cause that’s how we roll. I mean, TFOI was quite a bit different than TDH and TDH was night and day different that BSAS. So the new one will have a character and flavor all it’s own. Or at least that’s what we are hoping.

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ALL THAT REMAINS schedules studio time for forthcoming album, gear up for Warped Tour

Massachusetts’ ALL THAT REMAINS has confirmed May 1 as the first day of recording at Audiohammer studio in Florida with producer Jason Suecof (Bury Your Dead, Chimaira, Devildriver) for the band’s follow-up to 2006’s ‘The Fall of Ideals.’ More details, including a release date, artwork and tracklisting, will be available shortly.

“ATR are going to florida!” says frontman Phil Labonte. “We are wicked pumped to be working with Jason. He’s been a friend for a long time and we are super excited to hear how he will bend ATR’s sound and help squeeze new and badass metal out of our collective brains. He’s a great producer and we can’t wait to see what happens after two months at Audio Hammer Insanitown Studios! Get into it.”

Meanwhile, the band is continuing to write for the yet-untitled effort at home in Massachusetts. ALL THAT REMAINS most recently completed a winter headlining across North America with support from Chimaira, Black Tide, Divine Heresy and labelmates Light This City. Due up next is a nearly-month long stint on the mainstage of Warped Tour 2008, and dates are available below.

ALL THAT REMAINS most recently released the band’s first ever DVD, ‘All That Remains Live,’ in October and two clips, “Six,” and “Not Alone,” from the live portion can be viewed online here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McpTE4dcRg8 and http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=29700661). The DVD also features behind the scenes footage, fan and band interviews, two live performances and all the band’s music videos.

ALL THAT REMAINS

(Warped Tour 2008)
7/23 Mansfield, MA – Tweeter Center
7/24 Darien Center, NY – Darien Lake – Performing Arts Center
7/25 Camden, NJ – Susquehanna Bank Center
7/26 Uniondale, NY – Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum
7/27 Scranton, PA – Toyota Pavilion
7/28 Englishtown, NJ – Raceway Park
7/29 Pittsburgh, PA – Post Gazette Pavilion at Star Lake
7/30 Cincinnati, OH – Riverbend Music Center
7/31 Noblesville, IN – Verizon Wireless Music Center
8/01 Milwaukee, WI – Marcus Amphitheatre
8/02 Tinley Park, IL – First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre
8/03 Minneapolis, MN – TBA
8/05 Saskatoon, SK – Credit Union Centre
8/06 Calgary, AB – Race City Speedway
8/08 Nampa, ID – Idaho Center
8/09 George, WA – Gorge Amphitheatre
8/10 St. Helens, OR – Columbia Meadows
8/13 Fresno, CA – Save Mart Center
8/14 Chula Vista, CA – Coors Amphitheatre
8/15 Mountain View, CA – Shoreline Amphitheatre
8/16 Marysville, CA – Sleep Train Amphitheatre
8/17 Carson, CA – Home Depot Center

Image Used with permission from Prosthetic Records

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ATR Myspace Pics

All That Remains Myspace

Photo source’ ATR Myspace. Photographer: Jeremy Saffer

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A new feature called “Coverflow” allows you to flip through your library by viewing the album cover. This is all great just as long as you have an album cover for most of your music, otherwise you’ll be working hard to add it later to stuff that perhaps you didn’t download legally or ripped without album info.

The scrolling wheel is awesome and very responsive. Right now I have about 5700 songs, two full length movies, the first season of Metalocalypse, the first season of Robot Chicken, ATR live DVD, the Pantera DVD thats from the best of cd set, a few various internet videos and some photos and I still have about 50gb left. If you want to rip DVD or even convert videos files to iPod you will need a converting program. They are easy to find on Cnet.com and most are freeware.

The video screen you would think is not big enough to enjoy a movie or video on but its plenty big enough to enjoy that and more. I’ve waited for so long to get a GOOD mp3 player and when I won the iPod Shuffle from work it just made me want a better one. I thought about a Zune but I heard too many undesirable things about it like the fact that it doesn’t run off of Windows Media Player like you would think.

There are other iPods like the iPod Touch but it is much more expensive and only has 8 gb. Sure you can sit there and play, molesting it all days putting grubby fingerprints all over it but in the end you can only put so much on it.

Drawbacks? The shiny chrome backing (although looks really nice) and screen are terrible for attracting fingerprints. I would suggest a nice rubber or plastic cover for it. You can pick up some pretty rugged ones that will help prevent damage and keep it in good shape. One last thing, the more stuff you put on it like any computer or hard drive based electronics, the slower response you get.

Overall I love it! If you’ve got the means…I highly suggest!

For the record, No thats not MY iPod in the picture and I don’t have any Nelly Furtado on my iPod.

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The live performance of the DVD which was filmed in Philadelphia, PA and Baltimore, Maryland is good quality and the people that went to see them got a great show. Covering mostly songs from The Fall Of Ideals and a few from This Darkened Heart, Phil Labonte and his crew put on a good show. Oli Herbert is a phenomenal guitar player and Jeanne Sagan does a great job with back up vocals as well as bass. Jason Costa is an exceptional drummer and fits great in the band. Oh yeah, and Mike Martin’s pretty good too.

The extra behind the scenes footage is pretty cool, however a bit short. I like to see what the band is like when they aren’t tearing up the stage and I would have liked to see more of that. The videos are awesome as usual. Simple yet well worth watching. You don’t have to go overboard to make a good video. The DVD is fairly well priced even at expensive record stores like FYE. It is actually cheaper than most CDs. If your a ATR fan or if you even have slight interest in the band check out the All That Remains Live DVD.

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