Inside the Torn Apart

Inside the Torn Apart was recorded at Framework Studios in Birmingham again, with Colin Richardson once more producing. Paul Siddens engineered the recording, and Andy Sneap mixed the album at Chapel Studios in Lincoln. Shane Embury wrote the music of five songs, Mitch Harris of four and Jesse Pintado of three. The sleeve credits the same five players as Diatribes, Mark "Barney" Greenway, Mitch Harris, Pintado, Embury and Danny Herrera. Embury explained in 2017 that the title points straight at the discord that had been growing inside the band since the days of Fear, Emptiness, Despair. The lyrics leave social subjects aside for the strain inside a band and the way people change over the years, and Embury calls it a very personal album for him. Earache Records released it in June 1997 on CD (MOSH 171 CD), double LP (MOSH 171) and cassette, along with a limited digipak (MOSH 171 CDL) that adds "Time Will Come" and "Bled Dry", two songs that also appear on the Breed to Breathe mini-CD of the same year. The album reached number eight on the UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart, with three weeks there, and it spent one week at number 100 on the Scottish Albums Chart.