Every great metalcore band needs an origin story, and Chosen Undead's began with an ending. Several members had been writing music together since their youth, developing a sound shaped by old-school metalcore, pop-punk and rock, when their original project collapsed before its planned album could come to life. Rather than abandoning the surviving songs, a new lineup emerged from the wreckage, the music evolved, and the death of that old dream became the foundation for something considerably darker. Chosen Undead wasn't simply a new name; it described what the band had become.