A Life Once Lost

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A Life Once Lost is a five-piece band from Philadelphia. They started as a metalcore band before the scene became huge and after their first album, Open Your Mouth for the Speechless, came out on the indie label Robotic Empire. They then signed to Deathwish Records, (Converge’s lead singer Jacob Bannon’s label). When A Great Artist came out, they had evolved into a Meshuggah influenced band, still featuring a hardcore bite but with plenty of tempo changes. From there, their influence started to drift more towards metal than hardcore and their 2005 record, Hunter, on Ferret Records (their current label), showed a more a metallic sound with influences from bands such as Pantera and Lamb of God. In fact, Randy Blythe, Lamb of God’s singer, taught Bob Meadows how to control his scream. He also did guest vocals on the song “Vulture” from the same album. Since then they have toured with Cephalic Carnage, among others, and were on the second stage of the 2006 Ozzfest. Currently they are finishing work on their forthcoming album, IRON GAG, and preparing for a tour with Norma Jean, The Chariot, and The Handshake Murders

1	Vulture full track	162
2	Firewater Joyride	139
3	Rehashed full track	88
4	Detest	80
5	All Teeth	73
6	The Wanderer	72
7	Pain & Panic full track	71
8	Needleman full track	67
9	Hunter full track	65
10	Meth Mouth full track	62
11	Worship	61
12	Grotesque full track	59
13	Others Die full track	58
14	Ghosting full track	57
15	Silence full track	56

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gigi665 wrote:
19 days ago

I thought they had more plays.

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Apathindolence wrote:
23 days ago

So ridiculously heavy live. Such a good time.

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IndieTickets wrote:
last month

Tickets for Robot Mosh Fest 2008 featuring Poison the Well, A Life Once Lost, Darkest Hour, Misery Signals, Veil of Maya, Parkway Drive and MORE are available now! http://countryskate.indietickets.com

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graaaaaaaagh wrote:
last month

Open Your Mouth... was their best record imo.

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RedEyedMonster8 wrote:
last month

They were influenced by groove metal bands like Pantera, not Meshuggah.

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alytee123 wrote:
June 2008

Ditto DavelAm. A Great Artist is ok but the blatant Meshuggah ripoff riffs and melodies all over the place is annoying. Iron Gag is great.

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RedEyedMonster8 wrote:
June 2008

Crazy riffs

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M_R_B wrote:
June 2008

A grat artsist all the way! so many groovey riffs and chuggy bass lines, vox are groggy as fuck aswell!

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DaveIAm wrote:
May 2008

I honestly think Iron Gag is their most musical album so far. I love the dirty-redneck feel of it.

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spacehxc wrote:
April 2008

i liked them better when they were bendy

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KMFCM wrote:
April 2008

opn your mouth>>>>>a great artist>fourth plague>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>last two records. Christ what a downgrade.

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GothicFoom wrote:
March 2008

nice sound

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SargeantD wrote:
March 2008

PAIN & PANIC!

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cpoirier wrote:
March 2008

seconded PEiPHatesYou

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jetpackjotto wrote:
March 2008

i wish i could play squealies as perfect...

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RyanNinja wrote:
March 2008

The Fourth Plague: Flies > ALL

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nervous_brkdown wrote:
February 2008

Iron Gag > Great Artist > Hunter, IMO>

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PEiPHatesYou wrote:
February 2008

the vocals on iron gag are so much better than on the old albums.

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stogaman wrote:
February 2008

My local band!

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MODULATEmexXx wrote:
February 2008

Their last 3 albums for me = A Great Artist > Iron Gag > Hunter just my opinion.

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