Bone Palace Ballet is Chiodos' second full-length album, which was released September 13, 2007. During the March 31st Taste of Chaos show in Detroit, Michigan, the band announced that their new album is going to be called Bone Palace Ballet. At various shows on the RockstarTaste of Chaos tour, Chiodos played a song off the new album and introduced it as "I'm Naming My Kids Beer One and Beer Two". Lead guitarist Jason Hale later said in an interview that it was not the actual title and that the song had yet to be named.[1] On April 19th, 2007, a link to the studio demo of the untitled song played during the RockstarTaste of Chaos tour was posted on Chiodos' official fansite message board, along with a fifty second clip of another demo entitled "Lexington." The links were subsequently removed from the message board by the board's administrators. Shortly after the demos appeared, Chiodos posted a stream of the untitled demo on their MySpace page. On June 1st, 2007, Chiodos posted a MySpace bulletin containing lyrics to the untitled demo, and the official name of the song; "Teeth the Size of Piano Keys." Another new song had the working title "The $3,000 Song". Chiodos was calling it that because their label, Equal Vision Records rented a studio for them to work in (with a total cost of about $3000) and it was the only song they wrote in the eight days they were there.[2] On August 27, 2007, a poorly mastered copy of the album was leaked to the internet, 8 days before the official release date. Following the album's release, it debuted at number five on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart, selling about 39,000 copies in its first week.[3] As of October 2007 the album has sold 61,000 copies.
"Is It Progression If a Cannibal Uses a Fork?" - 3:26
"Lexington (Joey Pea-Pot with a Monkey Face)" - 5:22
"Bulls Make Money, Bears Make Money, Pigs Get Slaughtered" - 3:28
"A Letter from Janelle" - 3:16
"I Didn't Say I Was Powerful, I Said I Was a Wizard" - 4:09
"Teeth the Size of Piano Keys" - 3:23
"Life Is a Perception of Your Own Reality" - 3:46
"If I Cut My Hair, Hawaii Will Sink" - 2:23
"Intensity in Ten Cities" - 4:34
"The Undertaker's Thirst for Revenge Is Unquenchable (The Final Battle)" - 4:43
Personnel
Craig Owens: Vocals
Jason Hale: Lead Guitars
Pat McManahan: Rhythm Guitars
Bradley Bell: Keyboards, Piano, Synthesizer, Organ
Matt Goddard: Bass
Derrick Frost: Drums, Percussion
Trivia
"I Didn't Say I Was Powerful, I Said I Was a Wizard" was originally entitled "A Final Opinion is of Less Value Than an Appreciation of and Tolerance for Obscurity" which are also lyrics to the second part of the chorus.
"Teeth the Size of Piano Keys" is deeply dependent on lines from Charles Bukowski's poem "I'm in Love". These lines include: "...I dropped all my lovers. I stood up [in a cafe] and screamed I'M IN LOVE" along with "...through the eyes: hatred, centuries deep and true. I was wrong [and] graceless and sick. All the things I had learned had been wasted. There was no living creature as foul as I and all my poems were false."
Nick Martin from the band Underminded guest vocals on tracks 3 and 10.
