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Understanding What We've Grown to Be

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TypeStudio Full-length
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GenresEmo, Pop Rock, Post-Rock, Synthpop, Atmospheric Metalcore
LabelsEqual Vision Records, Nuclear Blast, We Are Unified
Length47:34
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Understanding What We've Grown to Be Information

Track listing (Songs)

Title Length Rating Votes
1. Mis//Understanding (feat. Josh Wells of Close To Home) 3:57 - 0
2. Everything As Planned 3:39 - 0
3. What I Wished I Never Had 4:01 - 0
4. Cast The First Stone 3:35 - 0
5. The Way That We Have Been 3:44 - 0
6. A War Inside 5:12 - 0
7. Stay Inspired 3:34 - 0
8. Just Keep Breathing 4:00 - 0
9. Views That Never Cease, To Keep Me From Myself 3:48 - 0
10. What My Heart Held 4:06 - 0
11. I Can't Make Your Decisions For You 3:43 - 0
12. Understanding What We've Grown To Be (feat. Josh Wells of Close To Home) 4:15 - 0
13. Roads That Don't End And Views That Never Cease (Live) (Bonus) - 0
Deluxe Edition
1. Hope 4:10 - 0
2. The King of Silence 4:36 - 0
3. Let These Words Last Forever 3:42 - 0
4. Mis//Understanding 3:57 - 0
5. Everything as Planned 3:39 - 0
6. What I Wished I Never Had 4:01 - 0
7. Cast the First Stone 3:35 - 0
8. The Way That We Have Been 3:44 - 0
9. A War Inside 5:21 - 0
10. Stay Inspired 3:34 - 0
11. Just Keep Breathing 4:00 - 0
12. Views That Never Cease, to Keep Me from Myself 3:48 - 0
13. What My Heart Held 4:06 - 0
14. I Can't Make Your Decisions for You 3:43 - 0
15. Understanding What We've Grown to Be 4:15 - 0

Line-up (Members)

  • David Stephens : Unclean Vocals
  • Joshua Moore : Lead Guitar
  • Lou Cotton : Rhythm Guitar
  • Kyle Pavone : Keyboards, Clean Vocals
  • Andrew Glass : Bass
  • Eric Choi : Drums

Guest / session musicians

  • Josh Wells of Close to Home : Additional Vocals on Tracks 1 and 12
  • Joey Sturgis : Programming & Keys

Production staff / artist

  • Joey Sturgis : Production, Engineering, Mixing & Mastering
  • JJ Cassiere : Booking
  • Mike «Mowery» Mowery & Matthew Stewart : Management
  • Daniel Sandshaw : A&R
  • Joshua Moore & Andrew Glass : Art Concept
  • Paul Romano : Artwork & Design
  • John Feldmann : Production, Mixing (Deluxe Edition)
  • Machine : Production (Deluxe Edition)
  • Alberto De Icaza : Engineering, Editing (Deluxe Edition)
  • Zakk Cervini : Additional Production, Editing (Deluxe Edition)
Additional notes
According to Equal Vision, "musically and lyrically, Understanding What We've Grown to Be holds a much darker tone than their previous release, To Plant a Seed. While still maintaining the band’s overall theme of positivity and brotherhood, the new material takes on a more straightforward approach to life’s struggles and the challenges of growing up."
The lyrics follow a sort of 'dark to light' theme as the album goes on. We, as a band, discovered a lot of negativity in our lifestyle that we hadn't truly realized or noticed in the past and this CD is a lot about dealing with that and coping when things turn out the opposite of how you'd imagined they would."

The album's cover painting was done by Paul Romano, who also created the cover of We Came as Romans' debut full-length album, To Plant a Seed and features the same faceless boy from before. Guitarist/lyricist Joshua Moore and bassist Andrew Glass worked together to come up with the visual concept for the cover and then collaborated with Romano to bring the powerful imagery to life. Moore explains that the idea for the piece was developed long before the album was even completed stating, "We knew going into everything what the direction of the CD was going to be, the whole concept behind it and how we wanted to be portrayed as a band."

We Came As Romans Discography

Album title Type Released Rating Votes Reviews
(2008) EP - 0 0
(2009) Studio - 0 0
(2011) Studio - 0 0
(2013) Studio - 0 0
(2015) Studio - 0 0