Hail Mary posted and album recording

On June 25, a new song titled Hail Mary was posted on the group’s Myspace. In September 2007, Clint posted on Dark New Day’s MySpace page saying that the band returned to the studio to record their next album with producer Dave Bendeth. Mixing began in November and the album was completed by December with the band confirming some of the songs titles to appear on the album such as Simple , Hail Mary , Fiend , Outside and Vicious Thinking . In March 2008, the group posted one of the tracks set to appear on the new album on Myspace titled Goodbye however a few days later it was announced that Clint had rejoined previous band Sevendust although he still hoped the new album would be released soon. In April, drummer Hunt issued an update stating that Warner Bros. had decided to release the album however no release date was set. In May, guitarist Troy McLawhorn became the second member to leave the group. The group announced the addition of Switched guitarist B.C. Kochmit, who Hunt described as “the perfect combination of Troy and Clint”, with frontman Brett Hestla also taking up guitar duties for the group. They also announced they would be releasing a series of Demo Tracks as downloadable “releases” in anticipation for their new album. Two songs from these were posted to the band’s MySpace page, Fiend (Version 1) and I Don’t Need You . On July 28, three new songs were added to their MySpace page, Anywhere , Simple and Vicious Thinking , as well as another version of Fiend , Goodbye and Hail Mary . They also announced a one-off show at the Three Bears Café in Marietta, Georgia on September 6 where, during the show, guitarist Clint joined them on stage, after Sevendust’s show was cancelled due to tropical storm Hannah.