Defunct Local Band Profile Series: For All That Is Lost

Wrapping up our eighth straight week of daily posts at the SMS, here's this month's Defunct Local Band Profile, focusing on another spotlight of a past local metal, hard rock, or punk band in our inactive band links! This month's randomly chosen band will need no introduction for local extreme metal diehards from eight or nine years back, so here's what you should know!
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

For All That Is Lost

Genre: Death Metal

Hometown: Desbarats/Bruce Mines/Thessalon/Laird, Ontario (later in their run, we labelled them as being from Central Algoma, Ontario for sake of convenience)

Members: (Members not in their last full lineup in italics)

Tyler Sperry, vocals
Brook Moreau, guitar
Ben Deslauriers, bass
Kameron Nicholson (My Dear Malice), drums
Graeme Caughill, guitar
Allen Piche, guitar 

Audio/Video: For All That Is Lost (commonly abbreviated as F.A.T.I.L.) never released a studio album, but they did write a number of original songs to go along with select live covers. A number of videos from their run circulate publically online, including on their own YouTube channel and the SMS' channel, among other sources. As well, an unmastered demo recording of their song "Northern Metal" can be heard on their Reverbnation page, plus two original guitar tracks from Brook. Here's For All That Is Lost live at The Rosie during their white mask era playing their song "Blood Law"!

Info/Analysis: Debuting on stage by the spring of 2010, F.A.T.I.L. cut their teeth at Central Algoma Secondary School's popular CASS Cafe concert series that year, while also playing Thessalon-area house parties & community events. After Brook replaced Graeme on guitar that fall, the band began actively integrating into the Sault Ste. Marie scene, debuting here at the former Roosevelt Hotel in March 2011 during the heyday of their Thursday metal nights. Despite Allen's departure that summer, the band achieved their biggest heights as a quartet, opening for bands like Biipiigwan, Fuck The Facts, and Abriosis, placing in two battles of the bands in 2012 (including a second place run at that July's Battle For The Blood), and hosting well received F.A.T.I.L. gatherings in Laird that summer. For All That Is Lost played their last public concert at The Canadian Nightclub in November 2012, and despite songwriting plans, they abruptly announced their breakup in April 2013, though occasional reunion teases followed through 2015.

Arguably the biggest metal band to come out of the early 2010s crop of CASS Cafe artists, For All That Is Lost left their mark in the region with a brutal and well composed slate of original material, and it's a shame they didn't last for more than 3 years! Tyler's brutal growling suited originals like "The Return of Dionysus", Brook & Ben were underrated players, and Kameron's drum skills presaged his well recieved future band work in Southern Ontario. Masks or no masks, F.A.T.I.L. helped put towns outside of the Soo on the local metal map, and hopefully the guys are staying active in music!
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I hope you guys liked this month's Defunct Local Band Profile! This series will return on or around June 10th for another randomly selected band spotlight, this time focusing on inactive local pop punk project Anthems Vs. Oceans (formerly For July), so look for that then, and for more news and notes on the site tomorrow! Thanks everyone!