Hawthorne Heights und Emery

Hawthorne Heights broke through with a song called “Ohio is for Lovers”, as it started to get airplay on MTV, and national radio. Signed to Victory Records at the time, they became their highest selling debut act. Their debut album, “The Silence in Black and White” released on June 1st 2004, peaked at number 56 on the Billboard Charts, to date it has sold upwards of 816,000 units. It also featured the song “Niki FM” and “Silver Bullet”.

“If Only You Were Lonely” burst onto the scene on February 28th 2006, and it is the second and final album to feature guitarist, Casey Calvert before his tragic death. The album debuted at number 3 on the Billboard 200 charts and spent 17 weeks in the chart. Their following album “Fragile Future” which was released on August 5th 2008 was the last record that they would release through Victory Records. It debuted at number 23 on the Billboard 200 and spent 5 weeks on the chart.

After departing with Victory Records, the band moved to Wind-up Records and released their fourth full-length studio album on June 1st 2010. It peaked at number 50 on the Billboard 200 Charts. Victory Records released a greatest hits record without the band being involved entitled “Midwesterners: The Hits” on November 9th 2010. Following a couple of EP releases after the greatest hits record, Hawthorne Heights released their album “Zero” on June 25th 2013, which was released through Red Entertainment. “Golden Parachutes” was the leading song released prior to the album on May 18th 2013 and then the single “Taken By the Dark” was also released before “Zero”.

They made Emerald City their new hometown and signed a record deal with Tooth & Nail Records and wasted no time in heading for the studio to work on their debut album which would later be called “The Weak’s End”. It was produced at the Black Lodge Studio in Eudora, Kansas. It was later released on January 27th 2004. Shortly after, touring extensively, the band headed back into the studio, to work on their following album “The Question”. The project took five weeks to record. It was released on August 2nd 2005, and made it into the US Billboard 200, charting at #45. It became the band’s highest charting album of their career. They re-released the album adding a DVD, which was a documentary film with bonus footage and exerts of Emery performing live songs.

It was whilst the band were on tour in Australia with their contemporaries, Underoath, that Emery announced that they would be releasing a new album. The album “I’m Only A Man” was unfortunately leaked on the Internet before it’s official release on October 2nd 2007. It received mixed reviews. They released a deluxe edition of the album as well, which featured four acoustic songs that were recorded while on the Take Action Tour.

They maintained a certain level of chart success throughout their career with songs such as “…In Shallow Seas We Sail” released on June 2nd 2009, making it into the Christian, Rock, Alternative and Digital Charts as well as the Billboard 200 Chart too. It gave the band their first number one in the Christian Chart. Their subsequent album “What Do What We Want” released on March 29th 2011 followed suit.

The band has made other appearances on compilation albums, most notably a version of “Holding Out for a Hero” originally by Bonnie Tyler featuring on the “Punk Goes 80’s” album.