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Shadows Are Security
Shadows Are Security is the third studio album by American metalcore band As I Lay Dying. The album was released on June 14, 2005, through Metal Blade Records, and was produced by lead vocalist Tim Lambesis, guitarist Phil Sgrosso and Steve Russell. It is the band's first album to feature new members Nick Hipa and Phil Sgrosso, who would appear on all of the band's following releases until their hiatus in 2014. It is also the band's first album to chart on the Billboard 200, debuting (and peaking) at #35 July 2, 2005, and spending 9 weeks on the chart.
The album's title is derived from a lyric in the song Control Is Dead.[1]
Musically, the album contains melodic death metal riffs.
In early January 2005, As I Lay Dying entered the studio to record a follow-up to their 2003 full-length Frail Words Collapse. Tracking would take place at Big Fish Studio in Encinitas, California, where the group recorded their last album. Mixing would occur in England with Andy Sneap. A release date was not provided, but the album was expected to be released later in the year.
The band toured extensively in the lead-up to, and following, the album's release: touring North America with Throwdown and All That Remains early 2005, performing on the "Hot Topic Second Stage" at Ozzfest 2005, heading to Europe as part of the "Hell On Earth European tour" alongside Evergreen Terrace, Heaven Shall Burn, Agents Of Man, Neaera, and End Of Days, and joining Slipknot and Unearth for "The Final Volume" tour. On June 24, 2005, the band played a CD Release Show in San Diego at Soma with Eighteen Visions, No Innocent Victim, and others.
Speaking on the recording process for the upcoming record in an interview to MTV.com, Lambesis said the band was less-rushed than when recording Frail Words Collapse. Lambesis praised Mancino's drumming, and noted that the guitar work on the upcoming album was more technical than prior releases. In an interview with the Great Falls Tribune, Lambesis said he hoped the album would be remembered as more of a "classic metal album" than a metalcore album, given the percise guitar work and lack of token breakdowns.
Lambesis has referred to the record as a concept album. Speaking on the meaning behind the album's title, Lambesis explained:
it just deals with the false sense of security we find in the things that we're taught and the way that most of us live, moreso instinctual and driven by our emotions and our feelings. To me, those things are like shadows. They're there one minute and gone the next. So one of the main themes of the record is how we need to change our entire sense of security and what it is that we've learned from our education systems and churches and all kinds of social norms and moral systems.
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Shadows Are Security
Shadows Are Security is the third studio album by American metalcore band As I Lay Dying. The album was released on June 14, 2005, through Metal Blade Records, and was produced by lead vocalist Tim Lambesis, guitarist Phil Sgrosso and Steve Russell. It is the band's first album to feature new members Nick Hipa and Phil Sgrosso, who would appear on all of the band's following releases until their hiatus in 2014. It is also the band's first album to chart on the Billboard 200, debuting (and peaking) at #35 July 2, 2005, and spending 9 weeks on the chart.
The album's title is derived from a lyric in the song Control Is Dead.[1]
Musically, the album contains melodic death metal riffs.
In early January 2005, As I Lay Dying entered the studio to record a follow-up to their 2003 full-length Frail Words Collapse. Tracking would take place at Big Fish Studio in Encinitas, California, where the group recorded their last album. Mixing would occur in England with Andy Sneap. A release date was not provided, but the album was expected to be released later in the year.
The band toured extensively in the lead-up to, and following, the album's release: touring North America with Throwdown and All That Remains early 2005, performing on the "Hot Topic Second Stage" at Ozzfest 2005, heading to Europe as part of the "Hell On Earth European tour" alongside Evergreen Terrace, Heaven Shall Burn, Agents Of Man, Neaera, and End Of Days, and joining Slipknot and Unearth for "The Final Volume" tour. On June 24, 2005, the band played a CD Release Show in San Diego at Soma with Eighteen Visions, No Innocent Victim, and others.
Speaking on the recording process for the upcoming record in an interview to MTV.com, Lambesis said the band was less-rushed than when recording Frail Words Collapse. Lambesis praised Mancino's drumming, and noted that the guitar work on the upcoming album was more technical than prior releases. In an interview with the Great Falls Tribune, Lambesis said he hoped the album would be remembered as more of a "classic metal album" than a metalcore album, given the percise guitar work and lack of token breakdowns.
Lambesis has referred to the record as a concept album. Speaking on the meaning behind the album's title, Lambesis explained:
it just deals with the false sense of security we find in the things that we're taught and the way that most of us live, moreso instinctual and driven by our emotions and our feelings. To me, those things are like shadows. They're there one minute and gone the next. So one of the main themes of the record is how we need to change our entire sense of security and what it is that we've learned from our education systems and churches and all kinds of social norms and moral systems.