All Shall Perish are actually doing this. The Bay Area deathcore institution has blown past the funding goal for its long-awaited new album and marked the occasion by unleashing a new single called "Led To Slaughter" — the clearest signal yet that one of the genre's most influential names is finished sitting on the sidelines.
What Happened
All Shall Perish put the fate of their next record in the hands of the people who never stopped asking for it. The band launched a crowdfunding campaign to bankroll a new full-length, and the target was cleared — a result that says plenty about how much goodwill this band still carries more than a decade after its last album cycle.
To mark hitting the goal, the band released "Led To Slaughter," the first taste of the new material. It's the kind of milestone-plus-payoff move that keeps a campaign's momentum alive, and in this case it doubles as proof of concept. A funding goal is a number. A new song is evidence.
Why The Crowdfunding Route Makes Sense Here
Direct-to-fan funding has become a standard play for veteran heavy bands who don't need a label to find their audience. All Shall Perish already have one of the most devoted listener bases in deathcore, built on records that a generation of bands openly borrowed from. Going straight to that audience removes the timeline pressure, the A&R input, and the compromises that come with someone else's release calendar.
It also functions as a referendum. Fans voted with their wallets, and the goal fell. That's a mandate, not a hope.
Why All Shall Perish Still Matter
For anyone who came to deathcore late, All Shall Perish are foundational. Formed in the Bay Area, the band built its reputation on a run of records that helped define what technical, genuinely mean deathcore could sound like in the 2000s.
- Hate.Malice.Revenge (2003) — raw, vicious, and an early blueprint for the genre's brutal end
- The Price of Existence (2006) — widely regarded as their defining statement and a deathcore benchmark
- Awaken the Dreamers (2008) — bigger, more melodic, and more ambitious without losing the teeth
- This Is Where It Ends (2011) — their most recent full-length before this campaign
That catalog is why the reaction to a new All Shall Perish song hits differently than a standard reunion drop. These records didn't just age well, they got adopted. You can hear their DNA in a huge slice of the modern deathcore underground, from the riff construction to the way breakdowns are staged.
The Long Gap
The band's activity since This Is Where It Ends has been sporadic, with lineup movement and members pursuing other projects — most visibly vocalist Hernan "Eddie" Hermida, who went on to front Suicide Silence. A stretch that long between albums usually means a band is effectively finished. A funded album and a new single say otherwise.
What "Led To Slaughter" Represents
Beyond being the first new music attached to this campaign, the single serves a practical purpose. It answers the question every dormant band faces when it announces a comeback: do they still have it? Releasing a track at the moment the funding goal broke is a deliberate show of confidence rather than a vague promise of material to come.
For the scene, it also raises the bar for how legacy deathcore acts handle returns. Announcing an album is easy. Funding it and putting a song in listeners' hands at the same time is a much harder thing to fake.
What To Watch Next
With the goal met, attention now shifts to the record itself — title, tracklist, release timing, and how the finished album stacks against a catalog that fans treat as untouchable. Live activity is the other obvious question, since a funded album from a band of this stature almost always invites festival and tour speculation.
Nothing beyond the funding milestone and the new single has been confirmed here, so treat anything about specific dates or a full lineup as unconfirmed until the band says it.
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All Shall Perish didn't need a label to greenlight their return — their own audience did it. The funding goal is broken, "Led To Slaughter" is out, and the pressure has officially shifted from whether this album happens to what it actually sounds like. For a band whose back catalog helped shape modern deathcore, that's the most interesting position they could be in. Keep an eye on the band's channels for album details as the campaign moves into delivery mode.