Out Of Ashes

Writing and Recording

After forming the band under the moniker Snow White Tan in 2005, Chester, Ryan, and Amir began recording full band versions of songs with other members of Julien-K (Brandon Belsky and Elias Andra). Chester would present an acoustic demo of a song he had written to them and then they'd turn it into a full track. In a May 2, 2010 interview with DevilBearRock Photography at the London Dead By Sunrise show, Ryan described the songwriting process for the album by saying, "The songs start with Chester usually on an acoustic guitar as a little vocal melody, but it’s really sparse. Occasionally they're more complete songs, but a lot of times he has an idea and a really good melody and we just sort of record that and he'll literally go work with Linkin Park then. And we'll build the song and write it, do the parts and everything, he'll come back and he'll get excited and then he'll sing more on it and then he'll go back and work with Linkin Park."

The album was completed in 2005, but was shelved due to Linkin Park working on music.

Chester chose Howard Benson to produce the album and began working with him by October 2008 at the latest. In the LPTV episode "Tracking "Too Late" with Howard Benson", Chester says, "I really liked a few of the records that he's worked on. He's done My Chemical Romance, Papa Roach, All American Rejects, Hoobastank. He's done TSOL records. He's very experienced."

Ryan said about the Dead By Sunrise live show, "It’s going to sound a lot bigger. On the album, the guitars were definitely heavier – there was a bit more grip to the record before and I think the label, when they heard the songs, were like "this could be all over the radio” and they wanted us to polish it up and make it shimmery."

Releases

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