A Long March: The First Recordings

As I Lay Dying | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 16, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Metal Blade
• ASIN: B000F9T6IS
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #73,416 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Long out of print, AS I LAY DYING's earliest recordings have become harder and harder to find as the bands' popularity continues to skyrocket. Now, available for the first time, Metal Blade Records and AS I LAY DYING have teamed up to bring A LONG MARCH: THE FIRST RECORDINGS to the metal masses. This single disc collection contains the original Pluto Records recordings of Beneath The Encasing Of Ashes and AILD's much sought after EP , while offering something entirely new! Long out of print, AS I LAY DYING's earliest recordings have become harder and harder to find as the bands' popularity continues to skyrocket. Now, available for the first time, Metal Blade Records and AS I LAY DYING have teamed up to bring A LONG MARCH: THE FIRST RECORDINGS to the metal masses. This single disc collection contains the original Pluto Records recordings of Beneath The Encasing Of Ashes and AILD's much sought after EP , while offering something entirely new!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beneath the encasing of ashes replacement, June 8, 2006

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Michelle (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Long March: The First Recordings (Audio CD)

This CD was a great purchase for me. For months now I have been trying desperately to get a hold of the original Beneath the Encasing of Ashes CD, however, I found nothing under $40. This CD was a great alternative for people like me, who just wanted a copy of their earlier stuff, for collection reasons.

If you're looking for the great As I Lay Dying sound that's in Frail Words Collapse, or Shadows Are Security, you won't find it here. And if you're buying this trying to find good quality songs from them, you'll be dissapointed. The main reason they released this CD is to keep their older releases on the market, so fans like me can purchase them without having the hassle of paying 40$ for a discontinued album.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good but misleading., June 7, 2006

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Alex is Metal. (England, UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Long March: The First Recordings (Audio CD)

As I Lay Dying are a prime example of how Metallic Hardcore should be done, and needless to say the material on both the 2002 EP and 2001s Beneath The.. are full of the amazing metalcore youd expect to hear from a band that near invented the genre.

The confusion arrising from this release was the re-recording aspect. Some seemed to believe that this would be both a re-recording on the EP and on Beneath The.. but sadly it is not. The cd is just a repackaging of the 2 cds put together, with a "re-recorded" version of the EP which (other than Reinvention) seems to have been simply lifted and reordered from Frail Words Collapse. This was personally a great disappointment for me because i thought itd be great to hear if theyd done anything different with the songs, but sadly they have not.

Needless to say, if i didnt have the EP and album already, this wouldve been a complete waste other than getting to hear a better version of Reinvention. I wouldnt recommend it to anyone looking for something new.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars AS I LAY DYING, THE BEST, June 21, 2006

A Kid's Review

This review is from: A Long March: The First Recordings (Audio CD)

AS I LAY DYING are the best metalcore band around and this cd proves just that, all the songs are straight out raw and brutal. This cd is a reprint of their early albums as they went out of print, and anyone that thought this cd was a dissapointment is a idiot and possiblly likes Hip Hop or Rap music, like the couple of reviews above this. How could you think this was new stuff (apart from the last 4 songs that have been re-recorded), maybe your mentally challangened. This album was made for people that DID NOT have Beneth The Encasing OF Ashes as it went out of print. Of course its gonna suck if you allready have it. But if you dont this is possibly the best AS I LAY DYING album out. I believe this is better that Frail or Shadows.