''Identity on Fire'' is the third studio album by American

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band

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, released on February 15, 2011.

Production and recording

On his Formspring account, Jagmin predicted that A Skylit Drive would begin writing and recording a follow-up to ''Adelphia'' during Summer 2010. He also suggested that the album would see an early 2011 release. In February 2010,

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published on their web site, "We have new recruits to the Hassle Records family, please welcome A Skylit Drive with open arms... Fresh out of California, A Skylit Drive have been together in their current line-up since 2007 and have been touring their unique brand of metalcore across the US. We released their second album ''Adelphia'' in October and the UK joined the ever growing A Skylit Drive bandwagon. Catch the band on the rapidly selling out UK / Europe tour with

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in April." The band announced via

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that on May 29, 2010, the band Desires of Sires will debut on their ''Adelphia'' tour. Recently, Michael Jagmin hinted on

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that A Skylit Drive is currently writing new material. A Skylit Drive is recording new demos. The band's MySpace layout changed in July 2010 with a new message saying that A Skylit Drive was in the studio recording a new album with Cameron Webb for early 2011. According to the band's Twitter account, they finished recording the new album. According to Nick Miller's Twitter, a twitpic of a promotional poster confirmed the album's name ''Identity On Fire'', which was set to be released sometime in February 2011. On November 15, 2010, the band revealed cover art from the album and confirmed the production for Cameron Webb ( Silverstein, Flyleaf,

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). The first song revealed from the album was "Ex Marks the Spot". Michael Jagmin considered it his favorite song off the album. On December 7, 2010, the band announced the track listing for the album and a date set on February 15, 2011. On January 5, 2011 via Twitter, Michael Jagmin announced a new song coming out on January 11. "XO Skeleton" was released online January 11 on the band's

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page. The second single and music video for "Too Little Too Late" premiered on January 24 on

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. The third official single "Ex Marks the Spot" was released the same day as the album, February 15. The song was made available for download in the

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for 160

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. It features vocal harmonies and pro keys. On February 10 the album began streaming on PureVolume.com. The album debuted at number 98 on the

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. It's the last album to feature original lead guitarist Joey Wilson, who left the band in 2012.

Track listing

All lyrics written by Michael Jagmin and Nick Miller.

Charts

Personnel

;A Skylit Drive * Michael "Jag" Jagmin -

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* Brian White -

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* Joey Wilson -

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* Nick Miller -

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* Kyle Simmons - keyboards,

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*Cory La Quay -

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, backing unclean vocals ;Production * Produced & mixed by Cameron Webb, @ Maple Studios, Orange County, California *Engineered by Cameron Webb & Sergio Chavez *Mastered by Alan Douches, @ West West Side Music, New Windsor, New York *A&R by Shervon Esfahani *Management by Eric Rushing & Shawn Carrano (The Artery Foundation) *Artwork by Phill Mamula *Symbol designed by Skull With Hair *Band photo by Brook Pifer

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Identity On Fire 2011 albums A Skylit Drive albums Fearless Records albums Hassle Records albums