Following the end of recording, Bayside performed at
The Bamboozle festival, and toured the East Coast with
the Junior Varsity and
Just Surrender in May 2005. Following this, they performed at a handful of dates as part of the
Zumiez Couch Tour. Between July and September, the band toured with
Vendetta Red, A Fall Farewell and
Nightmare of You. "Devotion and Desire" was released to radio on July 26, 2005. After initially being scheduled for July 2005,
Bayside was released on August 23 through
Victory Records. Following this, they went on a cross-country US tour with
I Am the Avalanche,
June, and
the Forecast, running into October 2005. That same month, Bayside toured the UK with labelmates
Hawthorne Heights,
Silverstein and
Spitalfield; it led into a two-month tour of the US with those same acts, plus
Aiden, dubbed the Never Sleep Again Tour. On October 31, 2005, while the band was travelling to Cheyenne, Wyoming, they were involved in a van accident. The vehicle flipped over when it ran over a patch of ice, killing drummer John "Beatz" Holohan, and hospitalizing bassist Nick Ghanbarian in the process. Ghanbarian said in a statement that he had broken his
L4 vertebrae, which required surgery. Frontman
Anthony Raneri and guitarist Jack O'Shea re-joined the tour from the St. Petersburg, Florida, performing acoustically until its conclusion. In January and February 2006, they band went on the Western Migration tour, which included
the Junior Varsity,
Punchline and
Sullivan. Holohan and Ghanbarian's roles were temporarily filled by Gavin Miller of Staring Back and Nick Testa of
A Day in the Life, respectively. Following this, the group supported
Smoking Popes on their tour of the US until March 2006. In April, the band supported
Protest the Hero on their Canadian tour, dubbed Tour and Loathing. Following this, they appeared at
The Bamboozle festival. In May and June, the band went on the Lions Tigers and Bears Tour, with
the Sleeping, I Am the Avalanche,
Hit the Lights,
Halifax, and
the Loved Ones. For this trek, Ghanbarian re-joined the band. In between dates on this tour, the band played a number of in-store performances at music stores. In August, the band went on a brief tour alongside Spitalfield,
Valencia, and
This Is Hell. ==Reception==