Release Date: May 16, 2006
Label: Metal Blade
Genres: Heavy Metal, Grindcore
Number Of Tracks: 22
A Long March: The First Recordings sounds surprisingly clean, although the drum sounds are a bit muddy and sheeny in the cymbal end.
A Long March: The First Recordings
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94 hours, on june 29, 2006 4 of 6 people found this review helpful
Sound: This album is of course a remake of As I Lay Dyings first two albums (Beneath The Encasing Of Ashes, American Tragedy). These albums were meant as EPs so naturally the sound is a little raw, but it gives it a harder sound. If you listen to the guitars in the re-recorded soungs such as "Forever" you can hear a definite change in sound. The guitars are much "crunchier" sounding than the cleaner sounding last two albums. I also enjoyed hearing bass lines in "Behind Me Lies Another Fallen Soldier", seeing as how the album "Frail Words Collapse" was recorded without a bassist. Tim's vocals are also much deeper, and hoarse sounding. It reminds me of Extol's screamer. // 9
Lyrics and Singing: This album was written very quickly so most of the songs are very short and don't have very many lyrics. But the songs show a definite meaning behind them showing Tim and Jordan's struggle in the music industry, such as in songs like "A Long March". Tim defines most of the songs in the lyric sheet, which is written more like a biography. // 7
Impression: AILD has always and will always be my favorite band and when I heard they were coming out with a remake album I was very pleased and it has not dissapointed me one bit. While I did enjoy "Shadows Are Security" more than this album I would say that would only be because of the raw sound of the album. If this CD were stolen from me it would definitely be worth purchasing again and again. // 8
A Long March: The First Recordings
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gigson111, on may 11, 2007 2 of 4 people found this review helpful
Sound: This is, a really crappy CD. I like their new CD and whatnot, but this CD just sucks! The screaming is horrible. I can't stand it. When I bought, I thought it was one of there good albums. I was totally wrong. I only like the one song on it "Behind Me Lies Another Fallen Soldier," that is the only song I personally like from it. Some of the guitar riffs are good, but the singing just completely kills it.I know some people are die hard ASID fans, but you have to say this album is not very good. 27 songs, sure, it's got loads of songs but they are not all of good quality. Some people will agree, some wont, but that's what I say for the sound of it. // 3
Lyrics and Singing: O my god. The singing was mediocre but the screaming was just horrible. He has improved on his screaming since the first album by quite a bit, but the screaming was bad. It sometimes sounded like they were just throwing random words and screams with riffs. Horrible signing skills. // 5
Impression: This, compared to other albums, not comparable. Most of the time that means it goes, but this one sucks! But compared to their new album shadows are security, it is garbage. The best song from this is album is behind me lies another fallen soldier but that's it. The guitar intro for the beginning was pretyy good but that is it. If I lost thise peice of crap, I'm would probably choose britney spears over this. But I would get the newer album. // 4
A Long March: The First Recordings
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guitarslasher21, on august 03, 2006 1 of 1 people found this review helpful
Sound: The sound of this album does AILD there best impression with the throaty vocals and the speeding double bass drums you CD hear in every track and along with the 2 great guitarists you get an awesome metal band with a point. The CD includes revamped versions of songs off there earlier albums which are "Illusions," "Forever," "Reinvention," "The Begining," and "The Pain of Seperation." // 10
Lyrics and Singing: Lyrics relate to the band's struggle through the hardships. The following are the lyrics to the first five tracks which are the re-recorded tracks. // 10
Impression: I thought this was AILD best album yet and I hope to see much more like this from the band and I hope to see them get better just as they keep getting through there years together. Also I hope they stay as good live as they are now because in my opinion they are better live than on the CDs. // 10
Best song on the cd was the re-recorded Reinvention. When you listen to the original, then the re-recorded... It's ear-gasmic! Especially with the "solo" as i call it.
grind core? heavy metal? your ****in kidding me right
ya bro i put it in as hardcore, one of the mods must have changed it while it was being reviewed. i agree with you, there is really no screaming in heavy metal if you think about it, thats what makes hardcore what it is. as far as grindcore goes i dont even know what the heck thats supposed to be
didn't even mention Reinvention, probably the best part of the cd, and the song with the most change to show.
Forever just sounds like they remastered it if that.
AILD isnt the best band ever , nor is it really hardcore , and it for sure aint grindcore. its def. metalcore , but besides labels , theyre good to hear evrynow and then , and beggining metalcore guitarist should learn their songs , theyre perfect for practice IMO.
grind core? heavy metal? your ****in kidding me right
ya bro i put it in as hardcore, one of the mods must have changed it while it was being reviewed. i agree with you, there is really no screaming in heavy metal if you think about it, thats what makes hardcore what it is. as far as grindcore goes i dont even know what the heck thats supposed to be
The genre "hardcore" has already been taken for a while heard of a band called Suicidal Tendencies that is real hardcore. I like AILD but i hate it when people call music like this hardcore but w/e they kick ass. And Grindcore is Punk mixed with Black Metal
grind core? heavy metal? your ****in kidding me right
ya bro i put it in as hardcore, one of the mods must have changed it while it was being reviewed. i agree with you, there is really no screaming in heavy metal if you think about it, thats what makes hardcore what it is. as far as grindcore goes i dont even know what the heck thats supposed to be
The genre "hardcore" has already been taken for a while heard of a band called Suicidal Tendencies that is real hardcore. I like AILD but i hate it when people call music like this hardcore but w/e they kick ass. And Grindcore is Punk mixed with Black Metal
genres are all messed today
u can name it punk, rock, metal , death metal, screamo, emocore, screamocore, and theires way more
I don't see why so many people are so "Anti-Genre" nowadays. If people didn't have genres then it would be even more f**ked up then it is now.I agree every band should add there own flavour to th the music but no matter what It will always be classified under some genre. Whats wrong with being classified?
grind core? heavy metal? your ****in kidding me right
ya bro i put it in as hardcore, one of the mods must have changed it while it was being reviewed. i agree with you, there is really no screaming in heavy metal if you think about it, thats what makes hardcore what it is. as far as grindcore goes i dont even know what the heck thats supposed to be
The genre "hardcore" has already been taken for a while heard of a band called Suicidal Tendencies that is real hardcore. I like AILD but i hate it when people call music like this hardcore but w/e they kick ass. And Grindcore is Punk mixed with Black Metal
wtf are you talking about... thats like saying bathory and venom are grindcore
grindcore is "chaotic" death metal without much music theory in it
these are weird comments my friend is obsessed with AILD and he calls them hardcore. different ppl call their music different things. as for the person who said u cant classify AILD because they dont fit in any, everyone says that about their favorite band. my favorite band happens to be SOAD and i consider them Nu Metal. while the band itself doesnt label itself. ive never seen any other nu metal bands so they are kinda right but just shut up about what genre they are who cares what any 1 else thinks anyway
i dont think anyones gotten grindcore right yet. as much as i hate to be a genre-*****, i think it needs clearing up. grindcore started with napalm death's "scum" albumn. basically, grindcore is musicaly sludge. extremely fast (and perhaps extremely slow) tempos with highly distorted guitars. high use of dissonant chords and "vomited" vocals.
anyways, i think i might get this. looks interesting.
nope their quite unlike trivium but their still as good as trivium =)
Wayyyy better than trivium
noooo wayyy not at all, they are good, but the solos aren't as intense, and the singer may be a damn good screamer but his singing voice is really disappointing the few times he actually DOES sing.
Still AILD is a good band and this is a great album, me and my guitarist picked it up, I liked Shadows Are Security a little more than this one tho.
nope their quite unlike trivium but their still as good as trivium =)
Wayyyy better than trivium
noooo wayyy not at all, they are good, but the solos aren't as intense, and the singer may be a damn good screamer but his singing voice is really disappointing the few times he actually DOES sing.
Still AILD is a good band and this is a great album, me and my guitarist picked it up, I liked Shadows Are Security a little more than this one tho.
you do realize that the screamer doesnt sings its the bassists, check your info dude
dude who gives a shit about genres of diff metal, music is ****in music... triviums old stuff used to be good before the crusade, dont get me wrong i like the crusade but they sort of pussied out like slipknot
