The band recorded their debut album Moment of Impact in 2010 featuring contributions from Sevendust members Lajon Witherspoon and Morgan Rose.
[3] By 2009, Dark New Day were on hiatus with Lowery and Kochmit forming Violent Plan with singer Donnie Hamby and drummer Dan Richardson.
[4] Despite recording a nine-song demo with Violent Plan,[4] Lowery and Kochmit worked on separate project, recruiting guitarist Dixie Duncan after writing new material.
[5] The formation of Eye Empire, as well as the breakup of Violent Plan, was announced in November 2009[6][7][8] They posted their first demos, "Victim" and "More than Fate", on Myspace and played a number of shows supporting Sevendust in December and January 2010.
"[12] Eye Empire uploaded a further two demos to their Myspace, "I Pray" in January and "Ignite" in February, before playing shows supporting Speed-X and Chevelle in March.
[1] Problems arose in April 2014 when the band announced that they had parted ways with lead vocalist Donald Carpenter.