Back Burner
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{{Infobox album
| name = Back Burner
| type = studio
| artist = For the Fallen Dreams
| cover = Back Burner.jpg
| alt =
| released = {{Start date|2011|05|24}}
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Metalcore
| length = 38:37
| label = Rise
| producer = Tom Denney
| prev_title = Relentless
| prev_year = 2009
| next_title = Wasted Youth
| next_year = 2012
| misc = {{Singles
| name = Back Burner
| type = studio
| single1 = My Anthem-Like Symphony
| single1date = April 13, 2011
| single2 = Strange Faces
| single2date = July 12, 2011
}}
}}
Back Burner is the third studio album by American metalcore band For the Fallen Dreams. It was released on May 24, 2011, through Rise Records and was produced by Tom Denney. Back Burner is the first album not to feature original drummer and primary songwriter Andrew Tkaczyk and final for Rise Records before their subsequent contractual release from the label.
Background
Following up from the band's previous record, Relentless, the group began writing for Back Burner by the ending months of 2010 and traveled out to Ocala, Florida to begin recording for it by the next year.{{cite web|url=http://interpunk.com/item.cfm?Item=192372 |title=The Ultimate Punk Music Store! |publisher=Interpunk |date=May 24, 2011 |accessdate=January 15, 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929142658/http://interpunk.com/item.cfm?Item=192372 |archivedate=September 29, 2011 }}
At the time of its recording, For the Fallen Dreams lacked a bassist, so the bass guitar parts were performed by the band's guitarists, Jim Hocking and Kalan Blehm.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avk_pGrSKAo |title=For The Fallen Dreams Studio VLOG #2 | publisher=YouTube |date= March 1, 2011 | accessdate=April 7, 2013}}
Back Burner is the first release by the band to feature more consistent use of clean vocal passages; on most verses there is clean singing, and only two songs on the album don't feature clean vocals in the choruses ("Let Go" and "Fist Fight").{{cite web|title=Album of the Month: For The Fallen Dreams – Back Burner|url=http://legendsarising.com/2011/06/05/album-of-the-month-for-the-fallen-dreams-back-burner/|publisher=Legends Arising|accessdate=June 7, 2012}}
Release
It was released on May 24, 2011 through Rise Records, and was produced by Tom Denney, the former guitarist of A Day to Remember. A few days later, the band made an appearance at Bled Fest.{{cite web|url=http://www.altpress.com/news/entry/bled_fest_releases_full_lineup|title=Bled Fest releases full lineup|work=Alternative Press|publisher=Alternative Press|date=March 2, 2011|accessdate=July 11, 2017}}
{{Music ratings
| noprose = yes
| rev1 = Alternative Reviews
| rev2 = Rockfreaks.net
| rev2Score = {{Rating|7|10}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.rockfreaks.net/albums/4294|title=For the Fallen Dreams Back Burner|work=Rockfreaks.net|accessdate=May 10, 2011}}
| rev3 = Under the Gun Review
| rev3Score = {{Rating|8.5|10}}{{Cite web|url=http://underthegunreview.net/2011/05/15/review-for-the-fallen-dreams-back-burner/|title=REVIEW: For The Fallen Dreams – Back Burner|work=Under the Gun Review|accessdate=May 15, 2011}}
}}
Track listing
{{track listing
| title1 = Say What You Will
| length1 = 3:10
| title2 = Deep Down Inside
| length2 = 3:06
| title3 = Complicate the Situation
| length3 = 3:50
| title4 = Only Unopened Arms
| length4 = 3:07
| title5 = My Anthem-Like Symphony
| length5 = 2:47
| title6 = The Big Empty
| length6 = 3:52
| title7 = Bottom Feeders
| length7 = 2:42
| title8 = Don't Give Up, Don't Give In
| length8 = 3:13
| title9 = The Human Collective
| length9 = 3:06
| title10 = Let Go
| length10 = 3:02
| title11 = Yellow
| note11 = featuring Mike Duce of Lower Than Atlantis
| length11 = 3:19
| title12 = Fist Fight
| length12 = 3:23
|total_length = 38:37
}}
{{track listing
|headline = iTunes bonus tracks
| title13 = Strange Faces
| length13 = 3:04
|total_length = 41:41}}
Personnel
;For the Fallen Dreams
- Dylan Richter – lead vocals
- Jim Hocking – lead guitar, backing vocals, bass
- Kalan Blehm – rhythm guitar, backing vocals, bass
- Will Weatherly – drums
;Additional musicians
- Mike Duce of Lower Than Atlantis – guest vocals on track 11, "Yellow"
;Additional personnel
- Tom Denney{{cite web|title=New For The Fallen Dreams Song|url=http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/off-topic-tavern/625705-new-fallen-dreams-song.html|work=Ultimate Metal|accessdate=January 26, 2012}} – production, engineering, mixing
- For the Fallen Dreams – engineering
- Landon Tewers of The Plot in You – production on bonus track "Strange Faces"
- Justin Reich – photography, layout