Koch Records
2005
It's Time To Decide (Explicit)
About This Album
At All Cost's debut for the revitalized Combat imprint (now distributed through Koch) is one of the more inventive metalcore releases of the past couple of years, blending hard-charging guitar blare with lengthy and varied instrumental passages and alternating Andrew Collins' hoarse scream with some pretty significant vocal manipulations. That's right -- It's Time to Decide might be the first metalcore record to ever feature a vocoder. At first, it's crazy. "Death to Distraction" begins with Collins' my-world-is-ending scream of the title, and the music is already galloping at manic speed -- it's like you opened a soundproof door into At All Cost's very loud, very angry world. But then, just as quickly, there are these pitch-modified vocals, and it just sounds so impossibly strange and wrong over the churning, gritty, swirling instrumentation. But it grows on you -- Collins' ranting scream is as one-dimensional as any vocalist's would be, so the change of pace is nice. By the time you get to "Death to Distraction"'s breakdown and it sounds like a Texas metal take on Daft Punk's "One More Time," you know It's Time to Decide isn't going to be typical.
Track List (try tracks 1,2,6 and 8)

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