All That Remains, Born of Osiris, e Snafu

ATR formed in 2000 and quickly wrote their debut album "Behind Silence and Solitude", which was later released on March 26th 2002 through Prosthetic Records. Featuring on the album were re-recordings of three demos from 1999, “Follow”, “Shading” and “Erase”. “This Darkened Heart” is the second studio album by the band and it was released on March 23rd 2004. It was produced by Adam Dutkiewicz, of Killswitch Engage.

All That Remains hit their stride on their third album, “The Fall of Ideals”, released on July 11th 2006, and was again produced by Adam Dutkiewicz. The album gave the band their first chart success, reaching number 75 in the Billboard 200 charts. Two years later, the album had sold upwards of 175,000 units. The song “Six” which was featured the video game Guitar Hero II, and “This Calling” was available as downloadable content for Rockband. It’s also used as the lead track on the original soundtrack of Saw III.

On September 16th 2008, the band released their fourth studio album “Overcome”, which is the only album of theirs not produced by Adam Dutkiewicz. Two of the album's tracks “Two Weeks” and “Chiron” became available content for Rock Band on September 9th 2008. The album did even better than it’s prequel, reaching #16 on the Billboard 200, selling over 200,000 copies. They released three singles from the album, “Forever In Your Hands”, “Frozen” and “Days Without”. Following a couple of international tours, and heading back into the studio, the band released their fourth studio album “For We Are Many” on October 12th 2010. It went on to peak at number 10 on the Billboard 200, and number 7 in the Canadian Albums Chart.

Their following release, “A War You Cannot Win”, the sixth studio instalment, continued the success that they were already experiencing with the album going to #13 in the Billboard 200 Chart. It has sold upwards of 115,000 units to date.

Born of Osiris, who take their name from the Egyptian deity Osiris and the tale of his son Horus, became a part of the Northland Chicago metalcore scene alongside Veil of Maya, Monsters, Oceano and For All I Am, all of which are now signed bands. The band successfully signed to Sumerian Records and released three full-length studio albums and two EPs on this label to date. They are made up of Ronnie Canizaro on lead vocals, Joe Buras on vocals, keyboards, synthesizer and programming, Lee McKinney on guitar, David Darocha on bass guitar and Cameron Losch on drums and percussion.

They have had considerable chart success across their career, with their first full-length album, “A Higher Place” released on July 7th 2009, which reached #73 on the US Billboard 200 Chart and #8 on the US Top Independent Albums Chart, selling over 6,000 copies. Their second full-length album, “The Discovery, was released on March 22nd 2011, and debuted at #87 on the Billboard 200. They released two singles from this album, “Recreate” and “Follow the Signs”. This album also made it to #6 on the US Billboard Hard Rock Albums.

Born of Osiris is one of those bands that tour relentlessly having played an array of festivals including the Summer Slaughter Tour in 2008 and 2009 and the Music as a Weapon Tour. They embarked on a co-headline tour dubbed The Night of the Living Shred tour with All Shall Perish, After the Burial, Caliban and Suffokate. They have supported bands such as Cannibal Corpse, Unearth and Hate Eternal.

The was a video posted of the guitarist Lee McKinney rehearsing over a riff which is rumoured to be a driving component in a song that will feature on a future release. He also had an 8-string guitar custom made for him by the UK guitar company Invictus, suggesting a change in musical direction, and it did in the form of an album called “Tomorrow We Die ∆live” which was their most successful album yet making it to number 27 on the Billboard 200, selling 13,052 copies in the first week.