All That Remains Should Have Broken Up Years Ago. They Didn't.

Most bands don't come back from what All That Remains has been through. One suspicious, unsolved death of a founding member. A bass chair that never really stops turning over. A lead guitarist who lasted seven years and then walked. By any reasonable accounting, All That Remains should be a past-tense band, a name you'd spot on a nostalgia festival flyer if you spotted it at all. Instead, they put out their tenth studio album in 2025 and booked a spring 2026 headline tour. The Springfield, Massachusetts crew has quietly turned endurance into a personality trait.

From a Springfield side project to Ozzfest

All That Remains started in 1998 as a side thing. Phil Labonte had just sung on Shadows Fall's debut, Somber Eyes to the Sky, before "musical differences" pushed him toward a project of his own. The early material leaned toward melodic death metal, a different animal from the sound they would become known for. Their 2002 debut, Behind Silence and Solitude, came out on Prosthetic Records and remains the only album to feature original members Chris Bartlett and Dan Egan.

Then Adam Dutkiewicz of Killswitch Engage got involved. He produced 2004's This Darkened Heart and 2006's The Fall of Ideals, and somewhere in there All That Remains found the formula that stuck: soaring clean choruses bolted onto metalcore aggression, twin-guitar harmonies, breakdowns that actually landed. The Fall of Ideals was the breakthrough. It hit number 75 on the Billboard 200, moved close to 13,000 copies in its first week, and put the band on Ozzfest 2006. Its single "This Calling" even borrowed footage from Saw III for the video. If you want a blueprint for mid-2000s American melodic metalcore, that record belongs on the short list.

The song that paid the bills

2008's Overcome gave them "Two Weeks," still their most-streamed song by a comfortable margin and the track that pushed a respected metalcore band onto active rock radio. ...For We Are Many (2010) and A War You Cannot Win (2012, home to "What If I Was Nothing") kept the momentum going. This was the stable stretch. From Overcome through 2015's The Order of Things, the lineup barely moved: four albums with the same core, a rare run of calm for a band that would soon have very little of it.

Then it started to come apart.

The Madness years and a country cover nobody asked for

2015 saw longtime bassist Jeanne Sagan leave after nearly a decade, replaced by Aaron Patrick. Two years later, Madness (2017) leaned hard into radio rock and big hard-rock hooks, and included a straight cover of Garth Brooks' "The Thunder Rolls." Fans split over it, to put it gently. It was the sound of a band chasing something and not quite closing its hand around it.

Whatever you make of that stretch, it set up the album that is impossible to talk about without heartbreak.

Losing Oli Herbert

On October 16, 2018, founding lead guitarist Oli Herbert was found dead on his Connecticut property. He was 44. State police ruled the death suspicious, and years later it remains unsolved. Herbert was not a hired hand. He co-founded the band with Labonte in 1998 and played on every record they ever made. His harmonies with Mike Martin were the melodic in melodic metalcore.

The timing made it worse. Victim of the New Disease arrived less than a month after his death, on November 9, 2018, the last album Herbert played on. The record reached number 8 on Billboard's Hard Rock chart and featured a guest turn from Danny Worsnop on "Just Tell Me Something." Under any other circumstances it would have read as a comeback. Instead it became a goodbye nobody was ready to write.

A revolving door that never stopped

Here is where most bands quietly disappear. All That Remains instead hired Jason Richardson, one of the most technically gifted guitarists in modern metal, to fill an unfillable chair in 2019. The bass seat kept cycling. Patrick left in 2021, and Matt Deis, who had played bass in the band back in the early 2000s, returned in 2022. Jason Costa, who had manned the drums since 2007, eventually stepped away, and Anthony Barone took the permanent drum seat in 2024. Through all of it, Labonte and Martin held the center.

Then, in July 2025, Richardson exited after nearly seven years. For a lot of fans that felt like the last straw. A founding guitarist gone, a technical prodigy gone, and a frontman who is now the only original member still standing.

Antifragile, and the name says the rest

The band's answer landed on January 31, 2025: Antifragile, their tenth studio album and first new full-length in more than six years. The rollout stretched across 2024 with four singles, "Divine" in May, "Let You Go" in June, "No Tomorrow" in August, and "Forever Cold" in November. It was the only album to feature Richardson, which gives it the same bittersweet fingerprint as Victim of the New Disease: a record that documents a chapter as the chapter is closing.

The title is not subtle, and it is not supposed to be. Antifragile names the idea that some things grow stronger under stress rather than merely surviving it. For a band that has buried a founder and reshuffled its roster more times than most fans can list from memory, the word works as a mission statement.

In January 2026 they filled the guitar vacancy with Ken Susi, best known from Unearth and a stint in As I Lay Dying. It is a smart, almost full-circle hire. Susi knew Martin, Herbert, and Labonte from the same Western Massachusetts underground scene the band crawled out of in the late '90s, and there is already talk of him shaping the next record.

Why they still matter

There is a version of the All That Remains story that reads as nothing but a timeline of lineup changes. That version misses the point. What TBI's data shows is a band with a deep, durable catalog, "Two Weeks," "This Calling," "What If I Was Nothing," "The Air That I Breathe," songs that still pull listeners a decade and more after release, and a fanbase that has stayed put through every gut punch.

This spring they headline a U.S. tour with Born of Osiris and Dead Eyes, running from late April into late May. Twenty-seven years in, with one original member and a brand-new guitarist, All That Remains is doing the least glamorous and most impressive thing a band can do. They keep showing up.

Explore the full discography, lineup history, and community on the All That Remains page, and dig into the scenes that shaped them: melodic metalcore and metalcore.