This Is Who We Are (As I Lay Dying album) explained

This Is Who We Are
Type:video
Artist:As I Lay Dying
Cover:ThisiswhoweareASILAYDYING.jpg
Released:April 14, 2009
Genre:Metalcore
Length:300 minutes (approx)
Label:Metal Blade
Director:Denise Korycki
Producer:Denise Korycki (Wild Wind Productions)
Prev Title:An Ocean Between Us
Prev Year:2007
Next Title:The Powerless Rise
Next Year:2010

This Is Who We Are is the first DVD by American metalcore band As I Lay Dying. It was released on April 14, 2009, through Metal Blade Records. The video album sold 4,200 copies in the US during its first week of sales allowing it to debut at number 2 on the Top Music Videos chart.[1] [2] On May 18, 2009, the DVD was certified Gold in the US.[3] It was also certified Platinum in Canada by the CRIA.[4]

Track listing

Disc 1: Documentary

Complete band history includes in-depth artist interviews and commentary, interviews with friends and family, as well as observations and road stories from colleagues and bands that have worked with and befriended As I Lay Dying since the band's inception.

Disc 2: Live

Videos of live songs recorded from various locations during As I Lay Dying's 2008 tours.

  1. "Falling Upon Deaf Ears" (Seacoast Community Church)
  2. "Forever" (Seacoast Community Church)
  3. "Meaning In Tragedy" (The Jumping Turtle)
  4. "The Darkest Nights" (The Jumping Turtle)
  5. "Separation" (The Grove of Anaheim)
  6. "Nothing Left" (The Grove of Anaheim)
  7. "An Ocean Between Us" (The Grove of Anaheim)
  8. "Within Destruction" (The Grove of Anaheim)
  9. "Forsaken" (The Grove of Anaheim)
  10. "Distance Is Darkness" (The Grove of Anaheim)
  11. "I Never Wanted" (The Grove of Anaheim)
  12. "The Sound of Truth" (The Grove of Anaheim)
  13. "94 Hours" (Cornerstone)
  14. "Through Struggle" (Wacken Open Air)
  15. "Reflection" (With Full Force Festival)
  16. "Confined" (Wacken Open Air)

Disc 3: Music videos and bonus features

Music videos, additional live songs, touring stories, profiles on personalities & more.

Music videos

  1. "Nothing Left" (directed by Brian Thompson)
  2. "The Sound of Truth" (directed by Brian Thompson)
  3. "Within Destruction" (directed by Jerry Clubb)
  4. "Confined" (directed by Christopher Sims)
  5. "Through Struggle" (directed by Lex Halaby)
  6. "The Darkest Nights" (directed by Darren Doane)
  7. "Forever" (directed by Derek Dale)
  8. "94 Hours" (directed by Derek Dale)

Extra live performances

  1. "Elegy" (Seacoast Community Church)
  2. "Empty Hearts" (The Jumping Turtle)

Personnel

AILD Crew

Notes and References

  1. http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=118707 "AS I LAY DYING: 'This is Who We Are' DVD First-Week Sales Revealed - Apr. 23, 2009"
  2. http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/esearch/chart_display.jsp?cfi=388&cfgn=Videos&cfn=Top+Music+Video&ci=3107825&cdi=10187522&cid=05%2F02%2F2009 "Top Music Video - This Is Who We Are"
  3. Web site: Recording Industry Association of America . RIAA . 2012-03-12.
  4. Web site: Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA): Gold & Platinum - January 2005 . Cria.ca . 2012-03-12 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120331105549/http://www.cria.ca/gold/0509_g.php . 2012-03-31 .

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