McKinnon updated fans on album progress

Work on the album was still in progress when McKinnon updated fans in February 2013; rather than the band’s lawsuit against Victory Records, he attributed the delays to the large amount of material the band had created for the album and the difficulty of pooling what would be featured on the album. According to one interview, the group had recorded “three or four albums’ worth” of material. In addition to songwriting, Denney returned to the band as a session musician for the album, though he was not credited as a performer in the album’s credits. The group finished recording the project in March and began mixing, at which point the band began a headlining tour across North America from late March to early May. Titled the Right Back at It Again Tour, the band were joined by support acts Of Mice & Men , Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! and Issues . An Australian leg for July was later added to the tour alongside The Devil Wears Prada and Dream On, Dreamer , and the band played at Rock am Ring that June. The mixing process, in the meantime, took at least four months, but the final step of mastering was finished in September.