Of One Blood (album)

Of One Blood is the second studio album by Shadows Fall, released on April 4, 2000. On this release, the band improved the sometimes muddy and ill-defined production of their debut, Somber Eyes to the Sky. This was the band's first release on Century Media Records, featuring Brian Fair on vocals (replacing Philip Labonte). This is also the last album featuring the drummer David Germain, and the last album of the melodic death metal era of Shadows Fall. The album was remixed by Zeuss and remastered by Alan Douches for a reissue, which was released April 15, 2008. The re-release also contains new and updated artwork.

"Root Bound Apollo" was originally an Overcast song (Brian Fair's former band), but it was not released on any recording made by the band until 2008, on the compilation Reborn to Kill Again.

Sound style

This is the last album in which the band shows melodic death metal elements, with long guitar solos, tremolo picking, acoustic interludes within the songs, keyboards and blast beats, including a more death growl-like vocal style of Brian Fair, more similar to Philip Labonte in Somber Eyes to the Sky. In the next albums, the band would compose shorter songs and screaming style vocals.

After this album, the band decided to leave the overall melodic death metal sound to find its own sound, "more inspired in hard rock and thrash metal", guitarist Matt Bachand states in an interview after releasing the band's next album, The Art of Balance.^[1]

Re-recordings

Three songs from this album — "Fleshold", "Revel in My Loss", and "To Ashes" — were re-recorded from Somber Eyes to the Sky. All three new versions still contain Phil Labonte's vocals on some parts of the songs.

Track listing

All music composed by Shadows Fall, except where noted.

No.	Title	Lyrics	Length
1.	"Pain Glass Vision" (music: Ray Michaud, Zeuss, Shadows Fall)	(instrumental)	0:48
2.	"Crushing Belial"	Brian Fair	5:25
3.	"Of One Blood"	Fair	4:45
4.	"The First Noble Truth"	Fair, Matt Bachand	4:14
5.	"Fleshold"	Bachand, Damien McPherson	3:37
6.	"Root Bound Apollo"	Fair	6:19
7.	"Revel in My Loss"	Philip Labonte, Bachand	5:27
8.	"Montauk"	Fair	4:22
9.	"To Ashes"	Labonte, Bachand	6:01
10.	"Serenity"	Fair	4:58

Personnel

Shadows Fall

Brian Fair – vocals
Jonathan Donais – lead guitar, backing vocals
Matt Bachand – guitar, backing vocals
Paul Romanko – bass
David Germain – drums

Additional performer

Ray Michaud – keyboards

Production

Produced, engineered, and mixed by Zeuss
Mastered by Keith Chirgwin and Morgan Walker
Art direction, design, and layout by Tom Bejgrowicz
A&R – Tom Bejgrowicz
Photography by Jason Hellmann

2008 reissue

Remixed by Zeuss
Remastered by Alan Douches
Reissue coordinating by Steve Joh
Photography by Jason Hellmann, Alex Solca, and Morgan Walker

References

↑ Sciarretto, Amy. "Shadows Fall Biography". shadowsfall.com. Archived from the original on April 30, 2003. Retrieved May 14, 2012.

Shadows Fall

Jonathan Donais Matt Bachand Paul Romanko Brian Fair Jason Bittner David Germain Damien McPherson Mark Laliberte Philip Labonte

Studio albums	Somber Eyes to the Sky (1998) Of One Blood (2000) The Art of Balance (2002) The War Within (2004) Threads of Life (2007) Retribution (2009) Fire from the Sky (2012)

Extended plays	To Ashes Deadworld

Compilations	Fear Will Drag You Down Fallout from the War Seeking the Way: The Greatest Hits

Videos	The Art of Touring Madness in Manila

Singles	"What Drives the Weak" "Inspiration on Demand" "Redemption" "Another Hero Lost"

Other songs	"The Light That Blinds"

Related articles	All That Remains Aftershock Killswitch Engage Overcast Anthrax

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