Bringing Down the Giant
album by Saving Abel
Bringing Down the Giant is the third studio album by the American rock band Saving Abel and was released on July 17, 2012. It debuted and peaked at number 74 on the Billboard 200 chart. It was the last album to feature original lead singer Jared Weeks before his departure from the band at the end of 2013.
Background
After touring non-stop since "Addicted" became hit in 2008 and writing their second album Miss America practically while on the road, Saving Abel took six months off to write their third album. In the writing sessions for the new album, the band avoided any sort of restrictions; the only rule was that the song had to be good and after that, it didn't matter what genre the song fell into. The time off between the road and the studio also enabled the group to take a step back and reflect before beginning work on new material, something the band was never given the time to do before recording Miss America.
"We toured so many places in such a short amount of time and it really did us some good as far as writing goes. It's great to be able to actually step away for a minute and think about what you want to do, what you want to represent, and who you want to become. Once we got that figured out, we just sat in the studio and did one thing, and that was we didn't argue – if a song was good then it was good. It didn't matter if it was Christian, Country, Pop…I think that's one of the things that's going to show through on this album once you listen to it.
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