Singer
Vic Fuentes and bassist
Jaime Preciado announced in a video on December 23, 2013, that the group would be producing and releasing a new album in 2014. In an article by the
Oakland Press, the band stated they had started writing new material together with
Tom Denney whilst on tour with
Mayday Parade,
You Me at Six and
All Time Low. The band finished writing new music after the winter European tour with
Bring Me the Horizon in December 2013. In an interview with Poppy Reid of The Music Network during the band's appearance at
Soundwave Festival in Australia, the band spoke on collaborating with Jenna McDougall of
Tonight Alive on a track from their fourth record. In May 2014, Pierce the Veil started pre-production for the new record. On June 5, 2014, Tony Perry and Vic Fuentes announced they would be flying to New Jersey in order to start recording their new album with producer
Dan Korneff. In an interview with
Alternative Press Vic Fuentes stated that the band was aiming for an early 2015 release date, pushed back from a 2014 release date. The reason for the pushed back release date was due to the band being several weeks behind due to two songs which the band wrote whilst they were recording the new album in the studio with producer Dan Korneff. In an interview with the merchandising mail order company
Impericon, it was said that the group moved into the studio immediately after
the 2013 Europe tour with
Bring Me the Horizon, and started writing the first new tracks. The musicians wanted to take as much time as possible when writing the pieces and not rush into anything. In an interview with the British music magazine
Rock Sound, the band revealed that writing the new album took almost five months. The group began writing in a small rented house in
San Diego, later relocating to
Big Bear Lake in the
San Bernardino Mountains, where they had previously written songs for their 2012 album,
Collide with the Sky. In mid-May 2014, the musicians began their songwriting efforts at the studio in
South Park, San Diego. There, the first riffs for "Sambuka" and "Song for Isabelle" were created. On June 5, 2014, Tony Perry and
Vic Fuentes announced that they would be flying to
New Jersey to begin recording their new album with producer
Dan Korneff. The album was recorded at Sonic Debris Recording Studio on
Long Island,
New York, and was produced by Korneff, who previously worked with the band on
Collide with the Sky. Fuentes stated that “It was exciting to do another record with Dan [Korneff], we had gotten to know him really well on [our previous album], so there wasn’t that initial period where you’re trying to get to know each other. We just dove in and started to make music right away.” On August 4, 2014, the recordings of drums and electric bass were finished. ==Album title==