At All Cost is an American groove metal/metalcore band from Austin, Texas.
History
The band was formed in 2003. They self-released the EP "What is Left to Inspire?". Then released the EP "Shattered Dreams and Bourgeois Schemes" in 2004 on The Imprint which was a subsidiary of Fiddler Records. With plans to release a full-length with Fiddler the same year, it, however, fell threw as stated at a show in 2005 about how "people were arguing about how much money they were going to make.. We just want to make music." Therefore posting the album, entitled "The Streets Are Alive", to the internet and letting fans download it for free. A few months later the band signed to the label, Combat Records, in 2005 and released the album "It's Time to Decide". Releasing three music videos from the album, with the lead single "Death to Distraction" being played on Headbanger's Ball on MTV2. The two other videos were for the songs "Right Now" and "The Irony". The band then signed to Century Media in 2007 and released the album "Circle of Demons" with the title-track being the lead single. A video was done for it and was played on Headbanger's Ball as well. Throughout these years, the band embarked on national tours with bands such as Norma Jean, Still Remains, The Jonbenet, Dead to Fall, and more. Their music can be described as metalcore, groove metal, or as coined by their guitarist Trey Ramirez once at a show, "epic dance metal". They brought elements of hardcore, metal, and dance music to their songs. Plus, the use of an auto-tune microphone and keyboard by vocalist Andrew Collins at live shows.
Final show and reunion
The band played a final show on December 19, 2009 with The Jonbenet at Walters on Washington in Houston, Texas. On December 21, 2012 at Red 7 in Austin, Texas At All Cost played their first show back together for the Party, At the End of the World. In the summer of 2016, At All Cost embarked on a two-week tour throughout the Midwest in support of their EP release Circle of Demos which was self-released on Bandcamp.
