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As Cities Burn (abbreviated as ACB) is a Christian post-hardcore band from Mandeville, Louisiana that formed in 2002.
In the late 90's Colin and Cody were in a ska/punk band called Alliance 103. As an unsigned act, the group drew the attention of Solid State Records, a subsidiary of Tooth and Nail Records which signed them in 2004.

ACB released their first full length album, Son, I Loved You At Your Darkest on June 21, 2005, and was featured in Solid State's Young Bloods Tour with The Chariot, Showbread, and He Is Legend. In 2006 they toured with The Bled, Protest The Hero and Since By Man. They held two cd release shows for this album: June 21 @ Covington in Louisiana, LA and June 22 @ Vinos in Little Rock, AR.
On June 10, 2006, the band announced the end of As Cities Burn, but in early July--after an outpouring of support from fans--decided to remain together.
The band's final concert was to be on August 19, 2006 at the House of Blues in New Orleans, LA. However, soon afterwards the band decided they would remain together and record a new album.

In summer 2006, on what was to be their last tour, they parted ways with bassist Pascal Barone, shortly after their announcement that they were staying together. For the remainder of the tour they performed with Robert Chisolm, singer of Tooth and Nail Records band Jonezetta. After the tour they returned home to record a new album, with current guitarist, Colin Kimble playing bass.

The band released a demo on MySpace and PureVolume of a new track from their upcoming album, which they recorded in early 2007. It surprised fans due to its complete lack of screaming, which had been the dominant vocal style on their previous releases. The change of vocal styling was a result of T.J. Bonnette, As Cities Burn's original vocalist with a screaming style, leaving the band in pursuit of building his relationship with his wife, who lived three hours away. Guitarist Cody, who had sung the clean vocals previously, took over vocals entirely. T.J. played one final show with As Cities Burn at the end of January in 2007 at the Highground venue in Metarie. During December, Cody was to be taking over full time.

As Cities Burn has performed several new songs at live shows. These songs are much different than the songs on the début album. The band spent February and March 2007 recording their newest album. On April 12th, 2007, As Cities Burn released the title of their second album, Come Now, Sleep. The album was released August 14th, 2007. They have begun to play songs off the new album. On June 8th at 12:00 AM, the song "This Is It, This Is It" was posted on their MySpace and PureVolume profile. On July 2nd, a second song, Empire, was added onto their PureVolume page. From August 7th to August 9th, the album was made available for streaming on the band's MySpace account. On August 14th, 2007, Come Now Sleep hit the shelves.

As Cities Burn now performs the majority of their new album Come Now, Sleep live, with rare performances from their previous album.
On January 2, 2009, the band posted a new recording entitled "Gates" on their Myspace page, which was a song the band had played numerous times at the end of live sets prior to releasing it. This recording also featured a vocal part of former vocalist T.J. Bonnette. It is unknown if this song will be on the band's third album, or if the album will include more from T.J. Bonnette

Band members

* Cody Bonnette - Lead Vocals, Rhythm Guitar
* Colin Kimble - Bass, Guitars, Backup Vocals
* Aaron Lunsford - Drums, Percussion
* Chris Lott - Lead Guitar

Former band members

* T.J. Bonnette - Lead Vocals
* Bryan Dixon - Drums
* Pascal Barone - Bass
* Lucas Starr - Bass Fill-In (Oh, Sleeper, former Terminal (band))
* Blake Miliron - Bass Fill-In (Arose Acrush)(Kelly Touch the Star)(The Boomerang Gang)(Get Your Guns)(Rookie of the Year)

http://www.myspace.com/ascitiesburn