The mid-1990s British Gothic scene was based around the world of the fanzine, All Living Fear were very prolific in this genre and gained a large underground following resulting in their debut single Jessica selling out of its first pressing in just a few weeks and becoming Kerrang! magazine's single of the week comparing Racher's vocals to Dave Vanian of The Damned. Jessica was the only release to have a drummer (John Macklin) and keyboards and to be produced by Steve Paine (Paine and Macklin both from the progressive rock band Legend)
All Living Fear toured all over the UK picking up support slots with all the major bands of the UK scene including Nosferatu, Inkubus Sukkubus, James Ray's Gangwar, Spear Of Destiny, Flipper, to name a few. All Living Fear played the first ever Whitby Gothic Weekend and have played it several times since.
Album releases followed. The Widow's Blame (which had a 2 page review in Sound on Sound magazine) and Minimum Resistance. Both sold out of their initial pressings and subsequent pressings were released through Resurrection Records. All Living Fear are described by many as the hardest working Goth band in the UK.
All Living Fear in 1995 were the first band in the UK south of Bristol to have an online presence and had much airplay on BBC Radio.
The band changed singers in 1998 new singer Paul Roe and took a more Rock oreantated direction. An album Into The Light was released before the band decided to form Corrosion. In 2001 All Living Fear reformed with Racher and North, released the much praised Home Too Soon and soon were supporting the likes of Wayne Hussey, The Damned and All About Eve.
All Living Fear have spent a long while shaking off the Goth tag and have successfully built up a following around the Classic Rock/Alternative Rock audience this is due in part to Guitarist Matthew North has had a major involvement with The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown that has over the past few years detracted from keeping things going with All Living Fear. After a successful show in London supporting a Heavy Metal band All Living Fear decided to start again from scratch and reworked a large amount of the bands live set and added some special guests creating the album 'Fifteen Years After' with Julianne Regan from All About Eve, Steve Bronski from Bronski Beat, Arthur Brown, Misty Woods, Christian Riou Claytown Troupe and others as guest artists.
In November 2007 the Dangernoise label released "15 Years After", a 'Best of / New + Rarities' 2CD collection for All Living Fear. "15 Years After" holds new versions of classic tracks, unreleased and new material plus remixes and special guests including Arthur Brown (The God Of Hell Fire), Julianne Regan (All About Eve), Nick Pynn, Christian Riou (Claytown Troupe) and Steve Bronski (Bronski Beat).
After almost 15 years involvement with the band, Andrew Racher announced he was leaving the band to spend more time with his family in August 2009. The band continued to tour however, having a revolving line-up of musicians playing live, while Matthew North has taken on vocal duties.
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