Complete List Of As I Lay Dying Songs From A to Z

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As I Lay Dying formed in San Diego, California, in 2000 through vocalist Tim Lambesis, who established the band’s original direction around the aggressive precision of metalcore. What began largely as a studio-driven project developed into a touring group after the release of Beneath the Encasing of Ashes through Pluto Records. The early catalog also included a split release with American Tragedy, material later collected in both original and re-recorded form on A Long March: The First Recordings.

After signing with Metal Blade Records, As I Lay Dying released Frail Words Collapse in 2003. “94 Hours,” “Forever,” “The Beginning,” and “The Pain of Separation” brought the band greater visibility and helped establish its combination of breakdown-heavy rhythm, melodic guitar lines, and urgent vocals. Constant touring with other major metal acts expanded the audience and strengthened the group’s reputation as a disciplined live band.

Shadows Are Security marked another major step forward in 2005. “Confined,” “Through Struggle,” “The Darkest Nights,” “Meaning in Tragedy,” and “Reflection” refined the band’s balance of aggression and melody. The album reached number thirty-five on the Billboard 200, while an appearance on Ozzfest helped move As I Lay Dying beyond the underground metalcore circuit.

An Ocean Between Us became the group’s largest commercial breakthrough. The album debuted at number eight on the Billboard 200, and “Nothing Left” earned a Grammy nomination for Best Metal Performance. “The Sound of Truth,” “Forsaken,” “Within Destruction,” and the title track demonstrated more complex arrangements and increasingly focused production without weakening the band’s physical intensity.

The Powerless Rise continued that development through “Anodyne Sea,” “Parallels,” “Beyond Our Suffering,” “The Plague,” and “Upside Down Kingdom.” Working again with producer Adam Dutkiewicz, the group paired a sharper melodic approach with dense guitar arrangements and relentless drumming. Awakened followed in 2012 with “A Greater Foundation,” “Cauterize,” “Resilience,” and “No Lungs to Breathe.”

The band’s trajectory changed dramatically after Lambesis was arrested in 2013 in connection with a murder-for-hire plot involving his estranged wife. He pleaded guilty the following year and served a prison sentence. As I Lay Dying went on hiatus, while several other members formed Wovenwar.

Following Lambesis’s release and public apology, As I Lay Dying reunited and issued “My Own Grave” in 2018. Shaped by Fire arrived the following year through Nuclear Blast. “Blinded,” “Redefined,” “Undertow,” “The Wreckage,” and the title track returned the band to its familiar metalcore architecture. The expanded edition later added “Roots Below,” “Destruction or Strength,” reinterpreted versions, live recordings, and instrumental mixes of the album.

Through Storms Ahead became As I Lay Dying’s eighth studio album. Released through Napalm Records, it included “Burden,” “The Cave We Fear to Enter,” “We Are the Dead,” “Whitewashed Tomb,” “The Void Within,” and the title track. The album featured Tim Lambesis with Phil Sgrosso, Ken Susi, Ryan Neff, and Nick Pierce, although the four instrumentalists left the group before the record’s release.

A new lineup emerged with Lambesis on vocals, Chris Clancy on bass and clean vocals, Bill Hudson and Don Vedda on guitars, and Tim Yeung on drums. That configuration released “Echoes” and “If I Fall,” two standalone singles that established the next stage of the band’s catalog while work continued on another full-length album.

Across eight studio albums and numerous alternate releases, As I Lay Dying has remained one of metalcore’s most technically influential and frequently debated bands. Its history contains major achievements, serious controversy, repeated lineup changes, and multiple attempts at reconstruction, while the music continues to emphasize the exacting contrast between melody and impact that shaped the group from the beginning.

Complete List Of As I Lay Dying Songs From A to Z

A–E

“94 Hours” – Frail Words Collapse (2003)
“A Breath in the Eyes of Eternity” – Beneath the Encasing of Ashes (2001)
“A Broken Reflection” – Through Storms Ahead (2024)
“A Greater Foundation” – Awakened (2012)
“A Greater Foundation (Extended Demo Version)” (extended demo version) – Awakened (2012)
“A Long March” – Beneath the Encasing of Ashes (2001)
“A Thousand Steps” – Frail Words Collapse (2003)
“An Ocean Between Us” – An Ocean Between Us (2007)
“Anger and Apathy” – The Powerless Rise (2010)
“Anodyne Sea” – The Powerless Rise (2010)
“The Beginning” – Frail Words Collapse (2003)
“The Beginning (Original Split Version)” – As I Lay Dying / American Tragedy (2002)
“The Beginning (Re-Recorded)” – A Long March: The First Recordings (2006)
“Behind Me Lies Another Fallen Soldier (Original Version)” – Beneath the Encasing of Ashes (2001)
“Behind Me Lies Another Fallen Soldier (Re-Recorded Version)” – Frail Words Collapse (2003)
“Beneath the Encasing of Ashes” – Beneath the Encasing of Ashes (2001)
“Beyond Our Suffering” – The Powerless Rise (2010)
“Blinded” – Shaped by Fire (2019)
“Blinded (Instrumental)” – Shaped by Fire (Deluxe Version) (2021)
“Blinded (Live from Munich)” – Shaped by Fire (Deluxe Version) (2021)
“The Blinding of False Light” – The Powerless Rise (2010)
“Blood Turned to Tears” – Beneath the Encasing of Ashes (2001)
“Burden” – Through Storms Ahead (2024)
“Burn to Emerge” – Shaped by Fire (2019)
“Burn to Emerge (Instrumental)” – Shaped by Fire (Deluxe Version) (2021)
“Bury Us All” – An Ocean Between Us (2007)
“Cauterize” – Awakened (2012)
“The Cave We Fear to Enter” – Through Storms Ahead (2024)
“Collision” – Frail Words Collapse (2003)
“Comfort Betrays” – An Ocean Between Us (2007)
“Condemned” – The Powerless Rise (2010)
“Condemned (The Gunfight Mix)” – The Powerless Rise (2010)
“Confined” – Shadows Are Security (2005)
“Control Is Dead” – Shadows Are Security (2005)
“The Darkest Nights” – Shadows Are Security (2005)
“Defender” – Awakened (2012)
“Departed” – An Ocean Between Us (2007)
“Destruction or Strength” – Non-album single; later included on Shaped by Fire (Deluxe Version) (2020)
“Distance Is Darkness” – Frail Words Collapse (2003)
“Echoes” – Non-album single (2025)
“Elegy” – Frail Words Collapse (2003)
“Empty Hearts” – Shadows Are Security (2005)
“Euphony from Ashes (Live Outro)” – Shaped by Fire (Deluxe Version) (2021)

F–J

“Falling Upon Deaf Ears” – Frail Words Collapse (2003)
“Forced to Die” – Beneath the Encasing of Ashes (2001)
“Forever” – Frail Words Collapse (2003)
“Forever (Original Split Version)” – As I Lay Dying / American Tragedy (2002)
“Forever (Re-Recorded)” – A Long March: The First Recordings (2006)
“Forsaken” – An Ocean Between Us (2007)
“Gatekeeper” – Shaped by Fire (2019)
“Gatekeeper (Instrumental)” – Shaped by Fire (Deluxe Version) (2021)
“Gears That Never Stop” – Through Storms Ahead (2024)
“I Never Wanted” – An Ocean Between Us (2007)
“If I Fall” – Non-album single (2025)
“Illusions” – Shadows Are Security (2005)
“Illusions (Original Split Version)” – As I Lay Dying / American Tragedy (2002)
“Illusions (Re-Recorded)” – A Long March: The First Recordings (2006)
“The Innocence Spilled” – Beneath the Encasing of Ashes (2001)

K–O

“Losing Sight” – Shadows Are Security (2005)
“Meaning in Tragedy” – Shadows Are Security (2005)
“Morning Waits” – Shadows Are Security (2005)
“My Only Home” – Awakened (2012)
“My Own Grave” – Shaped by Fire (2019)
“My Own Grave (Instrumental)” – Shaped by Fire (Deluxe Version) (2021)
“My Own Grave (Live from Munich)” – Shaped by Fire (Deluxe Version) (2021)
“My Own Grave (Re-Interpretation)” – Shaped by Fire (Deluxe Version) (2021)
“No Lungs to Breathe” – Awakened (2012)
“Nothing Left” – An Ocean Between Us (2007)
“Nothing Left (Live)” (live recording) – Awakened (2012)
“Only After We’ve Fallen” – Shaped by Fire (2019)
“Only After We’ve Fallen (Instrumental)” – Shaped by Fire (Deluxe Version) (2021)
“The Only Constant Is Change” – The Powerless Rise (2010)
“Overcome” – Awakened (2012)

P–T

“The Pain of Separation” – Frail Words Collapse (2003)
“The Pain of Separation (Original Split Version)” – As I Lay Dying / American Tragedy (2002)
“The Pain of Separation (Re-Recorded)” – A Long March: The First Recordings (2006)
“Parallels” – The Powerless Rise (2010)
“Permanence” – Through Storms Ahead (2024)
“The Plague” – The Powerless Rise (2010)
“Pre-Shaped by Fire (Live Intro)” – Shaped by Fire (Deluxe Version) (2021)
“Re-Separation (Instrumental)” – Shaped by Fire (Deluxe Version) (2021)
“Redefined” – Shaped by Fire (2019)
“Redefined (Instrumental)” – Shaped by Fire (Deluxe Version) (2021)
“Redefined (Re-Interpretation)” – Shaped by Fire (Deluxe Version) (2021)
“Refined by Your Embrace” – Beneath the Encasing of Ashes (2001)
“Reflection” – Shadows Are Security (2005)
“Reinvention (Original Split Version)” – As I Lay Dying / American Tragedy (2002)
“Reinvention (Re-Recorded)” – A Long March: The First Recordings (2006)
“Repeating Yesterday” – Shadows Are Security (2005)
“Resilience” – Awakened (2012)
“Roots Below” – Shaped by Fire (Deluxe Version) (2021)
“Separation” – An Ocean Between Us (2007)
“Shaped by Fire” – Shaped by Fire (2019)
“Shaped by Fire (Instrumental)” – Shaped by Fire (Deluxe Version) (2021)
“Song 10” – Frail Words Collapse (2003)
“The Sound of Truth” – An Ocean Between Us (2007)
“The Sound of Truth (Live)” (live recording) – Awakened (2012)
“Strength to Survive” – Through Storms Ahead (2024)
“Surrounded” – Beneath the Encasing of Ashes (2001)
“Take What’s Left” – Shaped by Fire (2019)
“Take What’s Left (Instrumental)” – Shaped by Fire (Deluxe Version) (2021)
“Taken from Nothing” – Through Storms Ahead (2024)
“Tear Out My Eyes” – Awakened (2012)
“This Is Who We Are” – An Ocean Between Us (2007)
“Through Storms Ahead” – Through Storms Ahead (2024)
“Through Struggle” – Shadows Are Security (2005)
“The Toll It Takes” – Shaped by Fire (2019)
“The Toll It Takes (Instrumental)” – Shaped by Fire (Deluxe Version) (2021)
“Torn Between” – Shaped by Fire (2019)
“Torn Between (Instrumental)” – Shaped by Fire (Deluxe Version) (2021)
“Torn Within” – Beneath the Encasing of Ashes (2001)
“The Truth of My Perception” – Shadows Are Security (2005)