For Those Who Have Heart
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| Studio album by A Day to Remember | ||||
| Released | January 22, 2007 | |||
| Recorded | October–November 2006 | |||
| Studio | Zing Studios, Westfield, Massachusetts | |||
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| Length | 42:42 | |||
| Label | Victory | |||
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For Those Who Have Heart is the second studio album by American rock band A Day to Remember, and their first for Victory. It was released on January 22, 2007 by Victory. For the album, the band had a line-up change swapping drummer Bobby Scruggs for Alex Shelnutt. It charted at number 17 on the Heatseekers Album Chart in the U.S. The music video for "The Plot to Bomb the Panhandle" was released a month later. Several of the album's songs appeared on the band's MySpace profile before the release. Recorded and mixed at Zing Studios by producer Eric Arena, the album was re-released in February 2008, with additional tracks and a bonus DVD. The DVD featured a performance of the band live at the Capitol, in the band's hometown, Ocala, Florida. The music video for "The Danger in Starting a Fire" was released in the same month, and the music video for "Since U Been Gone", which had been streamed on the band's MySpace, was released in July. For Those Who Have Heart was generally well received by music critics.
After releasing their first album, And Their Name Was Treason (2005), A Day to Remember went on a tour of the U.S. in summer 2005. As rhythm guitarist Neil Westfall said, Indianola "didn't have money to support a band growing [...] so we wanted to find someone who could support us and willing to do video, like recording budget, working with a producer, studio we wanted to work with, whatever. Like Indianola couldn't do that."
Drummer Bobby Scruggs told the band he wasn't going to continue with the band, and on January 27, 2006 it was posted online that the band were looking for a new drummer, for the start of a tour in mid-February. Eventually, bassist Joshua Woodard and Westfall recruited drummer Alex Shelnutt only three days before going on tour. Upon being asked, Shelnutt's response was "Ask my mom", as he was 15 at the time. Upon Shelnutt joining, Westfall said the group "started sounding like a real professional band. He gave us something we never had before."
The whole record was about pretty much standing up for yourself and, a lot of people do really shitty things to you. That's what was happening to us, a lot, and that [...] you shouldn't back down from people.
Woodard was put in touch with a representative from record label Victory Records. Victory auditioned the band in June, and following a week-long worth of phone calls, the group were told of Victory's interest in signing them up.
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