on march 7, 2012, it was announced that bt and christian burns had formed a band called all hail the silence, with encouragement from vince clarke. they released their first unofficial single, "looking glass", online in 2012. on july 21, 2014, transeau and burns announced that their band would be touring with erasure in the fall of 2014 for the album "the violet flame". on august 24, 2016, the band announced that they would release a limited edition colored 12" vinyl collectible extended play entitled "ahts-001" with shopify on september 19, 2016. on september 28, 2018, the band released their first official single, "diamonds in the snow", along with its accompanying music video. they released the music video for "temptation" in december 2018. the band's first album, "daggers" (stylized as "‡"), was released on january 18, 2019.