Shallow Believer EP released

On May 19, 2008, they released Shallow Believer , an EP containing the band’s B-sides. It was only released on digital music stores and it has charted No. 14 on iTunes ‘ Top 100 albums. They worked on Artwork , their fourth studio album, throughout 2008. They took several breaks while working on the album to headline the inaugural Get a Life Tour and the Spare the Air Festival in California . The album was produced by Panic! at the Disco ‘s producer Matt Squire , making this their first studio album not produced by John Feldmann. It was also their first studio album to feature Whitesides as the drummer. In Alternative Press , McCracken stated “In the past, we’ve always kind of brought pop sensibility into heavy rock, but this is going to be all that much more tantalizing and brutal. Our songs are ten times messier and noisier than they’ve ever been.” McCracken explained the meaning of the album, saying, “This record is about coming to grips with how much you really hate yourself and knowing you can never hate yourself to the full extent, so you’re free to hate yourself as much as you want to”. McCracken went on to say “we [have not] been this excited about an album since our self titled back in 2002.” The album released along with a DVD for the pre-order and first run of the album in stores. A cover version of ” Burning Down the House ” by Talking Heads was released on the cover compilation album Covered, A Revolution in Sound , and was also featured in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen – The Album . They played at The Bamboozle in May 2009. The single ” Blood on My Hands ” was released on iTunes in June, and was streamable for one day on the band’s website. On July 21, the pre-order was available. Artwork became available worldwide on August 31, 2009. The band played a major U.S. tour in October and November 2009 with supporting bands The Almost and Drive A, and another in early 2010 with Atreyu and Drive A. They later joined an arena tour supporting Three Days Grace in Canada. The band premiered the music video for the song “Empty with You” on December 9, 2009, via Twitter . In April 2010, they began another US tour along with Chiodos and New Medicine .