''Suicide Notes and Butterfly Kisses'' is the debut studio album by American

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band

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. It was released on June 4, 2002, under

Victory Records Victory Records is a Chicago-based record label founded by Tony Brummel. It operates a music publishing company called "Another Victory, Inc." and is the distributor of several record labels. It has featured many prominent artists including Thu ...

. The album featured re-worked versions of the songs "Living Each Day Like You're Already Dead", "Someone's Standing on My Chest" and "Tulips Are Better", which originally appeared on the band's 2001 EP, '' Fractures in the Facade of Your Porcelain Beauty''. " Ain't Love Grand" and " Lip Gloss and Black" were released as singles and music videos were also made for these two songs. The latter video found significant airplay on ''

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'' and ''

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'' in the fall of 2003. The album has sold more than 240,000 copies worldwide (according to March 2006

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data) and continues to rise. It is the only album to feature bassist Chris Thomson. The album was originally to be released under the title of ''The Death Rock Diaries''. The album name change simply came from the band liking ''Suicide Notes and Butterfly Kisses'' more as a title.

Track listing

Limited edition re-release

On February 23, 2004, Victory Records re-released ''Suicide Notes and Butterfly Kisses'' as a "limited edition" with new

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from the band. The new version of the album shipped with a bonus

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. The DVD contains a live concert featuring six songs at the Showcase Theatre,

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held on December 27, 2003, two of the band's music videos, a documentary "Lairs" which takes a look at the homes of the band members, and biographies of the members of the band and crew, as follows: *"Deanne the Arsonist" (live video) *"Someone's Standing on My Chest" (live video) *"Ain't Love Grand" (live video) *"A Song for the Optimists" (live video) *"Dilated" (live video) *"Lip Gloss and Black" (live video) *"Ain't Love Grand" (music video) *"Lip Gloss and Black" (music video) *Documentary *Biographies Only 25,000 copies of the limited edition version of the album were pressed and each copy is numbered in accordance.

Personnel

Band line-up

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- unclean vocals, lyrics *Dan Jacobs - guitar *Travis Miguel - guitar *Chris Thomson - bass *

Brandon Saller Brandon Kyle Saller (born June 24, 1983) is an American musician, singer and multi-instrumentalist. He is best known as the vocalist, keyboardist and former drummer of the metalcore band Atreyu, of which he is also a founding member. He is the ...

- drums, clean vocals, additional guitar, keyboard

Additional credits

*Album artwork by Justin Borucki *Album layout by

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*DVD artwork (limited edition only) by Justin Borucki and Clifford Raines *DVD produced (limited edition only) by Maxx Padilla of Click Vision Productions *DVD concert footage (limited edition only) provided by Sean Stiegemeier *Guest vocals on "At Least I Know I'm a Sinner" performed by

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(

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) *Mastered by Alan Douches *Ryan Saller -

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*Piano on "Lip Gloss and Black" performed by Jaime Boepple *Recorded, mixed and produced by Eric Rachel

Charts

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(North America)

References

{{Authority control Atreyu (band) albums 2002 debut albums Victory Records albums