nero and rotny began the recording process for we the fallen that included several guest spots including brandan schieppati from bleeding through, gary zon of dismantled, jamison boaz of epsilon zero, and johan van roy of suicide commando. the album was produced by jason miller of godhead and was released on september 9, 2009. it reached the top billboard 500 sales and was sold in every hot topic store in the united states, which gave the band huge exposure across the nation.