The second studio album from All That Remains,
This Darkened Heart, was released on March 23, 2004 (Prosthetic / Razor & Tie). The band’s debut record,
Behind Silence and Solitude, as well as its third release,
The Fall of Ideals, are very good records in their own rights; but it is their sophomore release that stands in a category all its own.
So, All That Remains was first listed as a “Heavy Metal” band, with
This Darkened Heart listed in the genre of “Melodic Death Metal.” Later, the band would come to be known as one of the first bands of an evolving sub-genre known as Metal Core, while the vocal style of