recorded second album Aftershock

Despite the loss of another record label, Yates decided to push forward with the Forty Foot Echo, albeit without any of the original members returning. Schraeder in particular moved on to being the guitarist of The Veer Union to record their debut album Time to Break the Spell . Yates continued to work with Kurzwreiter in a short-lived side-project band called “Caught Crimson”, but eventually assembled an entirely new band to record their second album on his own, independent label “Echoman Records in 2007, titled Aftershock . With failing to leave a mark with their second release, the band entered an extended hiatus until 2012, when Yates decided to re-release Aftershock with a revised track list featuring four substitute songs, and a completely re-recorded version of “Brand New Day”. For a variety of artistic and political reasons, Yates felt the song had to be redone so that he could truly reclaim it as his own, with his own vision for the song finally realized. Building on that momentum, Yates recorded a third album under the name, Returning , released in 2013. The album introduced more elements of electronic music while keeping within the constraints of the band’s traditional modern rock sound.