This Is Where It Ends

All Shall Perish | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 26, 2011)
• Original Release Date: 2011
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Nuclear Blast Americ
• ASIN: B0051ERGZ2
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #13,802 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. All Over the Road 2:54

2. Young Love 3:00

3. Pressure and Time 3:19

4. Only One 3:14

5. Get Mine 2:23

6. Burn Down Los Angeles 2:28

7. Save Me 2:32

8. Gypsy Heart 3:29

9. White Noise 3:04

10. Face of Light 4:28

Editorial Reviews

2011 album from the Bay Area Metal monsters. ASP have been redefining the Death and Grind genres with vibrant ideas and unrelenting delivery and reaching new heights with 2008's Awaken The Dreamers, the band's first release to make the Billboard Top 200 charts at #126. This Is Where It Ends conveys more of the raw energy, groove and technicality that put them on the map. Add even stronger hooks and melodies than before and you have All Shall Perish's best work to date. This Is Where It Ends is a truly an experience for the senses. Without a doubt, the future of Metal has arrived and if you aren't paying attention, you might get left by the wayside with your car on bricks.

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best albums I've ever heard, August 5, 2011

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N30N_d34TH - See all my reviews

This review is from: This Is Where It Ends (Audio CD)

It's July 23rd and I come home to see that my pre-order of This Is Where It Ends by All Shall Perish has arrived at my doorstep three days before its release. It feels like Christmas day since I'm a huge All Shall Perish fan and I also got the limited red vinyl edition with a shirt and an autographed poster. And yes, I do listen to vinyl LPs and I own my own turntable. This isn't my first purchase of a Nuclear Blast LP; I bought Entity by Origin on vinyl. I've been following these guys ever since I heard about the release of Awaken the Dreamers. I also ended up seeing them on the 2010 Summer Slaughter Tour, and I think that they did the best performance of the event besides Decrepit Birth. So after putting it through my dad's record cleaner to get off the crap from the factory, I place the bright red disc on my turntable.

Like most of the albums I end up loving, the first song on the album usually has a longish intro that builds up and then explodes into the song. But instead of an intro, all of the instruments instantly leaped out of the speakers at full speed like all mayhem had broke loose. The distortion of the guitars is very similar to Awaken the Dreamers. But the whole instrumentation is tighter than ever, this is especially expressed in the breakdowns. This is one of the most technical and best albums I have ever heard. This album has the classic All Shall Perish sound. Half of the time it's pure technicality and volume, and half the time the sound of the music is very ambient and atmospheric. The atmospheric parts on this album kind of remind me of the title song off of Depths by Oceano. One point that I noticed that I would like to add is that Eddie has stopped using pig squeals and inhaled growls. Another thing that I notice is that Adam Pierce gets better and better with each album; I can't see how he could possibly get any better than this. And that's the same with all of the musicians in this astonishing quintet.

All Shall Perish is another one of the metal bands out there that have politically themed/anti-government lyrics. Some other bands that have those lyrics are Dying Fetus, Dope, Despised Icon, The Red Chord, Havok, and Testament. You can see on the album cover that the guy in the center that's all tied up and bloody has his eyes covered with a bandana with the American flag, and that there is a catholic priest pointing at him, possibly accusing him for something.

Like I said before, the music instantly leaps out of the speakers with full power on Divine Illusion. This is definitely where all of the members are tighter than ever. The drumming is astonishingly fast and technical as are the guitars. The bass has an interesting part in this song, rather than following along pretty closely to the guitars, the bass part is actually not that fast, but it is very technical and complex. My favorite song on this album so far (I've only played the record twice so far) is There Is Nothing Left. The first six chords that the guitarists play sound pretty ambient, but then it instantly drops down to a lower, darker key, but then goes back to being all ambient, and that pattern repeats all throughout the song. One thing that I'm noticing about deathcore bands is that the difference in tempo speed in the main part of the song and the breakdowns is not as extreme as it used to be. I'm not saying this is bad at all, but I don't LOVE it. It does sound cooler that the bands are making the changes in speed more smoothly, but I do like to have an epic tempo drop (an example of my opinion of a perfect breakdown would be in Stabbing to Purge Dissimulation from Awaken the Dreamers). Otherwise, I can't really find any faults at all in this album! This gets a perfect score for being one of the best albums of 2011.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars incredible skill and writing makes one f'in metal masterpiece, July 30, 2011

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Obadiah Crowley (Seattle) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: This Is Where It Ends (MP3 Download)

I have been listening to metal for 25 years and it is gems like this record that keep me invested in the genre. I understand lots of people don't like the evolution of ASP and there is also the camp that is crazy for Storey which makes sense cuz the dude can rip. Hopefully, Storey will eventually release something with his new band but they really should get moving.

There is not a weak track on this record. Composing wise, it blows me away that a bunch of kids (yes, I'm old) can put together such a smooth flowing river of molten hot riffs. The singer howls and roars with the kind of virtuosity that I would expect since I really liked Awaken the Dreamers. The new guitarist (Artusato) is brilliant. His solo technique should be admired by any lead guitarist. I'm not a drummer but the work on the drum kit is exemplary to my ears. I guess the bass is good since their is a nice wall of sound coming through but it is certainly not upfront in the mix. I'm not really into the image of a dude swigging from a JD bottle like it's water. I'm biased since alcohol is not my drug of choice (Listen to Bob Marley).

For me the highlight is "A Pure Evil" and I wish they had made a video of that tune instead of "There is Nothing Left". I actually think that there about 6 tracks on the record that are better than the video single. However, I know it is subjective. I've always liked bands that put out tracks in Spanish (sé un poco de español, Vatos) and the Spanish version of "Royalty into Exile" is killer.

Enjoy this superlative effort.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Musical crack, July 29, 2011

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Disco Devil "gramcrackler.blogspot.com" (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: This Is Where It Ends (Audio CD)

A new A.S.P. album is a major event in the metal world. A couple years ago I listened to these guys and thought, "wow, a catchy new metal band that doesn't have god-awful singing in it, where have you been all my life?" This is a shocking new school assault: check out the lyrics, which incite violent and righteous revolution. Francesco Artusato is a worthy successor to Chris Storey, and new drummer Adam Pierce nails it.