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artist: All Shall Perish
title: The Price of Existence
year: 2026
genre: Death Metal
type: Album
label: Arson Theory
language: English
rel. date: 2026-08-14
source: WEB/MP3
quality: CBR 320kbps / 44.1 kHz / Joint Stereo
runtime: 00:43:05
size: 98.8 MiB / 11 tracks
rip date: 2026-08-16
source url: https://open.qobuz.com/album/qkasoa6ybd7wb
tracklist:
01. Eradication 3:54
02. Wage Slaves 3:42
03. The Day of Justice 3:32
04. There Is No Business to Be Done on a Dead Planet 3:01
05. Better Living Through Catastrophe 4:59
06. Prisoner of War 4:43
07. Greyson 2:12
08. We Hold These Truths... 3:43
09. The True Beast 3:36
10. Promises 3:02
11. The Last Relapse 6:41
release notes:
"After 20 long years, hear this again for the first time REMASTERED,
glow'd up, balls, deep and getting headroom."
With their first album, Hate, Malice, Revenge, Oakland's All Shall Perish
walked something of a middle ground between America's two dominant
strains of metal in the early 2000s: the commercially minded metalcore
contingent led by Killswitch Engage and Shadows Fall and the more extreme
and hyper-technical strain represented by Mastodon and Dying Fetus, among
others. With their second effort, 2006's The Price of Existence, improved
financial support from new record company Nuclear Blast (who only
reissued the debut, put out by an obscure Japanese label) have made it
possible for the band to exacerbate those contrasts more effectively,
while simultaneously proving that this 'best of both worlds' mentality
was no thoughtless fluke. Certainly not where densely arranged new tracks
like "Eradication," "Better Living Through Catastrophe," "We Hold These
Truths," and "Promises" are concerned, since their bouts of labyrinthine
riffing are as frequently spiced with blue-collar hardcore gang shouts as
they are positively eye-popping flights of lead guitar heroics. By
comparison, the lonely cowbell that kicks off "Wage Slaves" seems almost
comical, but there's nothing funny about the lurching, tortured riffs
that follow, emphasizing the band's harshest and uncompromising
qualities; for these, see also the apocalyptic "There Is No Business to
Be Done on a Dead Planet," where most any signs of melody and beauty are
remorselessly crushed beneath the violent onslaught. The gently sweet
"Interlude" helps to heal a few wounds, but just enough so listeners
don't have to pay too big of an emotional cost for The Price of
Existence.