Fiends is the third album from the Christian rock

Christian rock

Christian rock is a form of rock music played by individuals and bands whose members are Christians and who often focus the lyrics on matters concerned with the Christian faith. The extent to which their lyrics are explicitly Christian varies between bands...

 band Chasing Victory

Chasing Victory

Chasing Victory was a post-hardcore/Christian rock groupfrom Camilla, Georgia. The band was formed in 2001 by Adam Harrell,Jeremy Lowery, Jason Lowery and Michael Lamb while they were still in...

, released only months before the band officially broke up. This album is a change of style for the band. While their debut and EP had a solid Post-hardcore

Post-hardcore

Post-hardcore is a genre of music that developed from hardcore punk, itself an offshoot of the broader punk rock movement. Like post-punk, post-hardcore is a term for a broad constellation of groups...

 sound similar to that of Glassjaw

Glassjaw

Glassjaw is a four-piece rock band from Long Island, New York. The band is fronted by vocalist Daryl Palumbo and guitarist Justin Beck, and have undergone numerous line-up changes since their inception...

 and Thursday

Thursday (band)

Thursday were an American rock band from New Brunswick, New Jersey. Formed in 1997, the group has released six full-length albums, their most recent being No Devolución, which was released in April 2011 on Epitaph Records...

, the sound for this album was changed. The band experimented with Southern rock

Southern rock

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, post-grunge

Post-grunge

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, and even rock and roll

Rock and roll

Rock and roll is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, primarily from a combination of African American blues, country, jazz, and gospel music...

, while still retaining their post-hardcore roots.

Track listing

1. "Chemicals (King of the Carp)" – 3:28
2. "Wolves (G.O.B. vs. Tony Wonder)" – 4:00
3. "Fiends (Selling Out Ain't Easy)" – 3:57
4. "Queens (The Skeleton Key to a Skeleton)" – 3:18
5. "Carnies (Rapture Raptors)" – 4:37
6. "Janus (Dr. Jekyll/Stephen Hyde)" – 4:36
7. "Zombies (Oceans Away the Sequel)" – 3:37
8. "Brides (The Groom of St. Albany)" – 3:39
9. "Kings (Miaminions)" – 4:03
10. "Barbarians (Crackle Rotcha Tee Thout)" – 4:18
11. "Ghouls (Wallflowers)"†
12. "Mutants (Plague of Pyros)"†

• † Denotes Best Buy bonus track