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Last month my man Vince posted a video of Rusty Cooley shredding like no one has ever shredded before; then, yesterday, the dudes in All Shall Perish said in their interview with Sammy that Rusty “is, hands down, one of the best guitarists on earth.”

Well, I didn’t really know that much about Cooley, so I decided to do some homework and check out his band, Outworld, to see what he was like in a band situation where he’d have to play an actual song rather than just scales (at an admittedly super human speed). As it turns out, Outworld are pretty good – although I’m not over the moon about their vocalist, who I think borders on a parody of a good power metal glass-breaker. Still, I leave it to our beloved peanut gallery to have the last word…

Here’s Outworld’s “Warcry.”

-AR

Standing out in metal is difficult, considering that even the subgenres that splinter off from metal’s whole don’t take long to feel overcrowded. So in an era where bands increasingly have to earn their keep, All Shall Perish worked hard to definitively (and rightfully) make their mark in 2008 amidst the deluge of death metal. The band’s mesh of breakdowns and technical death metal forcefulness wowed many on their latest full length (Awaken the Dreamers) and during their copious touring (including one sponsored by us).

It was before their Providence show on that tour that vocalist Hernan “Eddie” Hermida and bassist Mike Tiner were kind enough to grant us an interview. They seemed to be guys with a good sense of humor about everything, not taking themselves (or anything, really) too seriously during the whole interview. With a dry, absurd wit later blown to bits by their fierce set that evening, the band didn’t seem to typify in person what their music may imply. They’re seemingly just dudes, albeit dudes that play in one of the chief death metal/ hardcore (but certainly not deathcore) bands out there. Eddie and Mike discussed their thoughts on deathcore and their insights into how they compose breakdowns, among other things.

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