The Serpent

The Serpent arrived on 7 August 2007, again on Roadrunner. This is where T.J. Miller's singing changed: the screaming receded and melodic singing came clearly forward. The lead single "Stay Captive" was played heavily on the British channel Scuzz, and the follow-up, "Dancing with the Enemy," gave them their only UK chart placing. It was a minor one, but that single travelled further abroad than at home. And this was supposed to be the last album. They supported Aiden in the autumn of 2007 and Atreyu in Britain that November, then in January and February 2008 stepped in for 36 Crazyfists on a Bullet for My Valentine tour. After the Serpent Tour that spring, on 25 March, the band announced they were finished: it had been an amazing run, they said, but they were done for personal reasons — nobody hated anybody, nobody wanted to punch anybody, it was simply time to move on to other things. Their final performance came at the Cornerstone festival that July.