In 2005 Carneghi returned to his native city of Joliet while Taylor relocated to Las Vegas, Nevada to produce the reality show Inked for the A&E Network. For several years the group worked on their debut effort with the majority of collaboration being done through telecommuting. Taylor wrote new songs for the project and repurposed older material from his earlier tenure with Kaducak. The long distance sessions culminated in 13 previously unreleased tracks with audio mastering by Geoff Pesche and Alex Wharton at Abbey Road Studios in London, England. "Tears Of The Enchanted Mainframe" was released internationally on August 27, 2012 and was deemed "a masterful effort" with "thirteen songs as powerful as the name of the band" with the album being "highly recommend to anyone looking for a quality and straightforward hard rock album" with music that is "proficient and orchestrated in an impactive fashion that fully entertains until the final second." On July 15 of 2015 Shea started preparing drum tracks for several songs from a 'weird west' concept album Taylor had begun writing in February 2009. The rock opera tells the linear story of the title characters, an eight-foot tall mechanical man that cries .45 Long Colt bullets and a peg legged albino Paiute, as they traverse an anachronistic late 18th century American southwest in an effort to vanquish a rash of vampiric beings presented more as a galactic plague than Earthly monsters. The album will feature twenty one songs and is intended by Taylor to serve as the soundtrack and musical basis for a stage show and/or film production. Buffalocomotive's music is a combination of hard rock and progressive rock but with the underlying sensibility and structure of power pop. Taylor, known for his freethinking lyrics, pens concepts that deal with the darker aspects of theology, fantasy and science fiction but additionally encompasses such topics as the uncanny frequency of orphaned protagonists in fiction, the non-medical use of prescription medications and romanticized suicide amongst vampires. During his adolescence, Taylor also developed an intense interest in fantasy role-playing games, especially "Dungeons & Dragons", a pastime which he still cites as a major influence on his songwriting. To create interest through contrast, Buffalocomotive utilizes shifts in song dynamics, going from quiet to loud and vice versa, often placing gentler material against more aggressive fare. All Buffalocomotive songs are performed with the guitars tuned down one whole step from standard tuning with some tracks featuring an additional drop D tuning.