Last Night in Town by Every Time I Die

Last Night in Town is the debut studio album by American metalcore band Every Time I Die. After recording a demo, the band signed with independent label Goodfellow Records in 2000 and released The Burial Plot Bidding War EP. The band signed to Ferret Music in mid-2000 and were planning to record their debut album later in the year. After the writing process was done in December of that year, the band went on several US tours until March 2001. The band spent March and April recording Last Night in Town with Killswitch Engage guitarist Adam Dutkiewicz at Zing Studios in Westfield, Massachusetts. Following recording, the band went on tour with Killswitch Engage and Santa Sangre. Last Night in Town was released on August 14, 2001. Subsequent tours with Killswitch Engage and Martyr A.D. followed. The band then embarked on a winter tour with Bloodlet. During a show in early January 2002, the band performed as a four-piece with guitarist Jordan Buckley on bass. Shortly afterwards, they announced they were looking for a bassist due to their bass player Aaron Ratajczak leaving left to focus on Kid Gorgeous. Further tours followed, as well as appearances at festivals, before Steve Micciche became the group's new bassist in the summer. The group closed the year touring with Eighteen Visions, Converge and Misery Signals, among others. Last Night in Town received positive reviews with critics praising the band's chaotic sound showcased on the album. It was reissued in June 2004 with new artwork. It was pressed on vinyl in December 2006 as part of a box with Hot Damn! (2003) and Gutter Phenomenon (2005) through Suburban Home Records. In 2010, Buckley said the album was "hard to play, I don't know how I even wrote some of that stuff." He followed this up three years later, stating the record consisted of "50 riffs and none of them repeat and it's almost like, what were we thinking?"