Thursday Search For Common Existence

New Jersey emocore band Thursday will release their fifth album, Common Existence, on Feb. 17 through Epitaph Records.

Common Existence is the band's first album to be released through Epitaph. Thursday were previously signed to Victory Records, but left earlier this year. Common Existence was produced by Dave Fridmann (The Flaming Lips, Sleater-Kinney) this summer at Fridmann's Tarbox Road Studios in Cassadaga, N.Y.

The disc includes "As He Climbed The Dark Mountain," which was previously released on Thursday's split album with Envy, which came out earlier this year. You can hear the first single, "Resuscitation Of A Dead Man," on Thursday's MySpace page.

"No matter how big the tragedy seems in your life, that's just the same thing every other person out there is going through," Thursday singer Geoff Rickly told Spin.com. "So in a way this is like an answer to [2003's] War All The Time.

"When we did that record it was about how every little interaction is like this crazy war going on in our lives, and this one says 'now, well even the biggest things in our lives are very just common place,' and I think that’s reflected in a lot of themes in the songs, where there's an overarching theme that's illustrated by something very specific in that sense it's a lot like a Bruce Springsteen record."

Thursday formed in New Brunswick, N.J. in 1997. Their Waiting debut came out in 1999 and was followed by their Full Collapse breakthrough two years later. They've also released War All The Time and 2006's A City By The Light Divided. Their lineup includes Rickly, guitarists Tom Keeley and Steve Pedulla, bassist Tim Payne, keyboardist Andrew Everding and drummer Tucker Rule.

Thursday recently finished a Canadian tour with Rise Against and will hit the road in February to begin promoting Common Existence. You can see them here:

Feb. 14 Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Palladium
Feb. 15 San Jose, CA @ San Jose Civic Auditorium
Feb. 16 Chico, CA @ The Senator Theatre
Feb. 18 San Diego, CA @ House Of Blues
Feb. 19 Tucson, AZ @ The Rialto Theatre
Feb. 20 Las Vegas, NV @ House Of Blues
Feb. 21 Salt Lake City, NV @ In The Venue
Feb. 22 Denver, CO @ The Fillmore Auditorium
Feb. 24 Milwaukee, WI @ Eagles Ballroom
Feb. 25 Cincinnati, OH @ Bogart's
Feb. 26 Rochester, NY @ Main Street Armory
Feb. 27 Worcester, MA @ The Palladium
Feb. 28 Hartford, CT @ The Webster Theater
March 2 Providence, RI @ Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel
March 3 Clifton Park, NY @ Northern Lights
March 4 New York, NY @ Nokia Theatre Times Square
March 5 Sayreville, NJ @ Starland Ballroom
March 6 Philadelphia, PA @ Electric Factory
March 7 Baltimore, MD @ Rams Head Live
March 8 Columbus, OH @ Newport Music Hall
March 9 Cleveland, OH @ Agora Theater And Ballroom
March 10 Detroit, MI @ The Fillmore Detroit
March 11 St. Louis, MO @ Pageant Theater
March 12 Chicago, IL @ Aragon Entertainment Center
March 13 Minneapolis, MN @ Myth Nightclub
March 14 Kansas City, MO @ Beaumont Club
March 17 Fort Lauderdale, FL @ Revolution
March 18 Orlando, FL @ Hard Rock
March 19 Atlanta, GA @ Tabernacle
March 21 Houston, TX @ Verizon Wireless Theater
March 22 San Antonio, TX @ Sunset Station
March 23 Dallas, TX @ Palladium Ballroom
March 26 Boise, ID @ Knitting Factory
March 27 Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater
March 28 Seattle, WA @ Showbox SoDo
March 29 Spokane, WA @ Knitting Factory
March 30 Vancouver, BC @ The Commodore Ballroom
April 1 Calgary, AB @ MacEwan Hall (University Of Calgary)
April 3 Edmonton, AB @ Edmonton Event Centre
April 4 Saskatoon, SK @ Odeon Event Centre
April 5 Winnipeg, MB @ Burton Cummings Theatre
April 6 Thunder Bay, ON @ Thunder Bay Community Auditorium
April 8 Toronto, ON @ TBA
April 9 Montreal, QC @ Metropolis

Here are the songs on Common Existence:

"Resuscitation Of A Dead Man"
"Last Call"
"As He Climbed The Dark Mountain"
"Friends In The Armed Forces"
"Beyond The Visible Spectrum"
"Time's Arrow"
"Unintended Long Term Effects"
"Circuits Of Fever"
"Subway Funeral"
"Love Has Led Us Astray"
"You Were The Cancer"