Disguises is the fifth studio album by American post-hardcore band Aiden

Aiden

Aiden is an American rock band from Seattle, Washington that formed in the spring of 2003. The members are WiL Francis , Nick Wiggins , and Angel Ibarra . wiL originally played bass but took over lead vocals when the original singer left...

. Disguises was recorded some time between 2010 and 2011. Unlike previous albums, Disguises has a large usage of gang vocals.

This is the only album by Aiden to not chart on Billboard Top 200

So far, three singles have been released. "Walk Among the Dead", "Hysteria" (the first music video of the album), and "A Portrait of the Artist", which was released on their personal YouTube

YouTube

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 channel "Aidenvision". No video for the first single, "Walk Among the Dead" has been released.

Track listing

Personnel

Aiden

• Jake Davison
  Jake Davison
  Jake Davison is an American drummer. He played drums for Aiden. He was born on September 27, 1986. He was one of the founding members of Aiden when it first started back in 2003, with guitarist Angel Ibarra....
  
   — drums
  Drum kit
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  , background vocals
  Backing vocalist
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• Zombie Nicholas
  Nick Wiggins
  Nick Wiggins is the bassist and backing vocalist in the post-hardcore turned punk band Aiden. He plays bass and writes for the band Me Vs Myself which features Frank Gross from On The Last Day on guitar and Carson Allen formerly of On The Last Day and Escape The Fate...
  
   — bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  , background vocals
• Angel Ibarra
  Angel Ibarra
  Angel Ibarra is guitarist and one of the backing vocalists for the band Aiden. He was one of the founding members of the band when it first started back in 2003, during his high school days.-Biography:...
  
   — lead guitar
  Lead guitar
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  , background vocals
• William Control
  WiL Francis
  William Roy "Wil" Francis is the lead vocalist of the band Aiden as well as his electronic project William Control. Francis also acts as producer to the band A Midnight Tragedy....
  
   — vocals
  Lead vocalist
  The lead vocalist is the member of a band who sings the main vocal portions of a song. They may also play one or more instruments. Lead vocalists are sometimes referred to as the frontman or frontwoman, and as such, are usually considered to be the "leader" of the groups they perform in, often the...
  
  

Performance credits

• Austin Held – additional vocals on "ReEvolver"
• Ash Costello – additional vocals on "Shine"
• Rick Kern – additional vocals
• Jeremy Beddingfield – additional vocals
• Allana Smith – additional vocals
• Roya Nourani – additional vocals
• Daniel Matson – additional vocals
• Jamie Wheelock – additional vocals
• Nicholas McMahan – additional vocals
• Harry MacDonald – additional vocals

Visuals and imagery

• Chad Micheal Ward – cover photo
• Ciera Walters – band photo
• Doublej – layout design

Technical and production

• William Control – production
  Record producer
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  , engineering
  Audio engineering
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  , mixing
  Audio mixing (recorded music)
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• Joel Casey Jones – engineering assistant
• Bob Bicknell – engineering assistant
• Justin Armstrong – mixing

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalogue
United States	March 29, 2011	Victory Victory Records Victory Records is a Chicago-based record label founded by Tony Brummel. It is a privately held corporation. It also operates a music publishing company called "Another Victory, Inc." and is the distributor of several smaller independent record labels....	CD Compact Disc The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...	VR609