Product Description

The much-anticipated sophomore effort from Davison, Michigan's emo-metal-pop-punk heroes, Chiodos!

Recorded with up and coming producer Casey Bates (Portugal The Man, Fear Before The March of Flames) and mixed by award-winning engineer David Bendeth (Paramore, Breaking Benjamin, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus), Bone Palace Ballet is poised to break Chiodos into superstardom.

"It's great to go by the Smartpunk stage and see Chiodos' crowds growing with each stop of the tour. Word is defiantly out on these guys."
- Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman (July 2006)

Track Listing

1. Is It Progression If A Cannibal Uses A Fork?
2. Lexington (Joey Pea-Pot With A Monkey Face)
3. Bulls Make Money, Bears Make Money, Pigs Get Slaughtered
4. A Letter From Janelle
5. I Didn't Say I Was Powerful, I Said I Was A Wizard
6. Teeth The Size Of Piano Keys
7. Life Is A Perception Of Your Own Reality
8. If I Cut My Hair, Hawaii Will Sink
9. Intensity In Ten Cities
10. The Undertaker's Thirst For Revenge Is Unquenchable (The Final Battle)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #39536 in Music
• Released on: 2007-09-04
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Good Follow-Up Album
I've read the other reviews, and feel the need to defend this album. I'm a huge Chiodos fan and see them live any chance I get.

Bone Palace Ballet is a good 'sophmoric' album of sorts. I own "The Heartless Control Everything" and don't really consider that their first album since they seemed to still be discovering themselves. As everyone reading this knows "All's Well that Ends Well" was a sick album because of songs like 'Nereids', 'Best Friends' and 'No Penguins in Alaska' (sorry for the shortened titles, i'm at work). For the most part, fans don't listen to Chiodos for the 'Queen of Diamonds' or 'Lindsay Quit Lolligagging' which Bone Palace Ballet seemed to lack (for the most part). By further seperating Chiodos from these soft songs and pushing them into their side project, Cinematic Sunrise, Chiodos fans are getting a more refined, better defined Chiodos with every new album.

As for the structure of Bone Palace Ballet, every song follows the waltzy theme the album title suggests, which isn't a bad thing. This album is a bit different than their previous two, but shows the band's diversity. They went slighly softer, but held the tempo to a reasonable height throughout the album. Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge fan of their heavier tracks, but at least there weren't filler interludes and acoustic tracks like the previous album.

If you're a Chiodos fan, you can't not buy this album. It's not too far of a drop-off in intensity that you can claim they've sold out. The consistency of the theme throughout the album also sells me on their future albums. It shows me that the band has found their identity; understand that we, as fans, don't appreciate filler tracks; and will likely deliver another killer album in the future once they pick a more rockin' theme.

Interesting
Yeah, I grabbed this CD as a gamble. Hadn't heard any of their songs, hadn't heard of the band. The cover caught my eye and the song titles tickled me just so. So I took a gamble.

And you know, I should HATE this album but I don't. Not quite my particular style of music but you can't deny they're good at WHAT THEY DO. Can't say that for everyone. (I'm looking at you, Fred Durst!) Yeah, the singer really, really sounds like a girl. Yeah, the album is uneven at times. But it's richly textured and got some very beautiful moments. I like the use of keyboards and how well it intertwines with everything else.

One thing that totally buggered me though: IT'S SO BLOODY SHORT!! First off, I like to get my money's worth. But also I gotta say, this album when it started off gave me the impression it was going to be epic in length, something I like a lot. It ain't. Some short albums out there are good but this one left me unsatisfied. I like throwing in Colors by Between The Buried And Me and just letting the whole monstrous thing wash over me ... it's exhausting but great, I feel invested in the album. This on the other hand feels like it's missing a good 20 minutes at least.

Still, they're intriguing to me and I'll probably pick up their other album, whatever it's called.

Anyone who doesnt absolutely love or hate this cd is insane!
This is a cd which either you absolutely love or you absolutely detest...but if you are a fan of this genre or a previous fan of chiodos...then this is one of the most influential post hardcore albums to date. Anyone who bashes this album because of its keyboard melodies or guitar riffs obviously doesnt have any musical taste or talent. The keyboards are much more matured from their last cd Alls Well and blend perfectly with the harmonizing vocals from Craig especially in "lexington(joey pea-pot with a monkey face)". The guitar is equally as matured and amazing and people who dont like it should listen more carefully to the intricate sweep picking and the strutting chord melodies that make this cd amazing to the ear drums. Another great part of the cd that shows Chiodos maturity is that there is not an excessive use of the double bass pedal and when it was used it was apporapriate. I think this is an outstanding follow up and is my album of the year!