Of Mice & Men (album)

Of Mice & Men is the debut album by American metalcore band, Of Mice & Men. It was originally planned to be released on February 23, 2010, however was delayed until the 9th of March. The two songs "Second & Sebring" and "Those in Glass Houses" were released as singles.

1 Background
2 Track listing
3 Personnel
4 Chart performance
5 References

Background

Of Mice & Men began progress on their self-titled debut shortly after demo session recordings. The group were signed to Rise within Carlile's acknowledgment that the previous group he was a part of (Attack Attack!) were signed to label upon his membership. The album was officially announced by Austin Carlile on the band's YouTube channel on December 23, 2009,^[1] and is currently available on SmartPunk,^[2] MerchNOW,^[3] and InterPunk.^[4] Shortly after the album's release Carlile left the band and Jerry Roush took his position on lead vocals. After Warped Tour 2010, Jaxin Hall left the band to improve his home life and work on his clothing company, Love Before Glory. Jerry was with Of Mice & Men up to the This Is A Family Tour with label mates Attack Attack!. After this, Carlile was invited and returned to the band again with Roush fired. Alan Ashby was put on rhythm guitar and Shayley was moved to bass, but will still be doing clean vocals. Two videos were made for the singles "Those in Glass Houses" and "Second & Sebring".^[5]

Track listing

All lyrics written by Austin Carlile and Shayley Bourget, all music composed by Joey Sturgis and Phil Manansala.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"YDG!?"	3:17
2.	"They Don't Call It "The South" for Nothing"	3:07
3.	"Second & Sebring"	3:50
4.	"Westbound & Down"	3:38
5.	"John Deux Trois"	3:16
6.	"Those in Glass Houses"	2:42
7.	"Farewell to Shady Glade"	3:41
8.	"The Ballad of Tommy Clayton & the Rawdawg Millionaire"	3:50
9.	"Seven Thousand Miles for What?"	2:53
10.	"This One's for You"	3:27
Total length:		33:41

Personnel

Of Mice & Men

Austin Carlile - lead vocals
Shayley Bourget - rhythm guitar, clean vocals
Phil Manansala - lead guitar
Jaxin Hall - bass guitar, vocals
Valentino Arteaga - drums, percussion

Production

Joey Sturgis - production, engineering, mixing, mastering

Chart performance

Chart	Peak Position
Billboard 200	115^[6]
U.S. Billboard Independent Albums	7^[7]
U.S. Billboard Heatseekers Albums	3^[8]
U.S. Billboard Rock Albums	35
U.S. Billboard Hard Rock Albums	10

References

^ Carlile, Austin (23 December 2009). "YouTube - Of Mice & Men Video Update!". YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUNhgXnLSX4. Retrieved 7 January 2010.
^ "Of Mice And men". SmartPunk. http://www.smartpunk.com/catalog/product/view/id/31381/s/of-mice-and-men-of-mice-and-men/category/3/. Retrieved 7 January 2010.
^ "Of Mice & Men : MerchNOW". MerchNOW. http://new.merchnow.com/products/111676. Retrieved 2 March 2010.
^ "Interpunk.com - The Ultimate Punk Music Store!". Interpunk. http://interpunk.com/item.cfm?Item=176025&. Retrieved 2 March 2010.
^ Of Mice & Men premiere!
^ "Music Albums, Top 200 Albums & Music Albums Charts - Billboard.com". Billboard. http://www.billboard.com/#/charts/billboard-200?begin=101&order=position. Retrieved 19 March 2010.
^ "Independent Albums - Billboard.com". Billboard. http://www.billboard.com/#/charts/independent-albums?begin=11&order=position. Retrieved 19 March 2010.
^ "Heatseekers Albums - Billboard.com". Billboard. http://www.billboard.com/charts/heatseekers-albums?order=gainer#/charts/heatseekers-albums?order=gainer. Retrieved 19 March 2010.

Of Mice & Men

Shayley Bourget Austin Carlile Valentino Arteaga Phil Manansala Alan Ashby Jerry Roush Jon Kintz Jaxin Hall

Studio albums	Of Mice & Men The Flood

Singles	"Second & Sebring" "Those in Glass Houses" "Still YDG'N" "Purified" "O.G. Loko"

Demos	Demo