[2] The band have played headline tours in the UK and mainland Europe as well as regularly supporting notable artists such as My Chemical Romance, Thirty Seconds to Mars, Enter Shikari and Paramore.
They have also made appearances at festivals such as Taste of Chaos, Give it a Name, Download, Reading, T in the Park, Oxegen and Rock am Ring.
Singer guitarist Steven Battelle and drummer Mark Gibson formed LostAlone with bassist Tom Kitchen in 2005 after disbanding their previous band Intentions of an Asteroid.
Battelle and Gibson then created their own label, Scorpia, to represent their new band and to handle the production and distribution of their subsequent releases.
LostAlone signed to U.S. label Sire Records in December 2009, after spending the majority of the year writing the follow-up to Say No To The World.
"Shapes Of Screams is an album filled with first-kiss adrenaline, heart bursting happiness, life-affirming air-guitar moments and demented genius that will leave you delighted for hearing it" 5/5 Kerrang!
Indulge Sound "LostAlone continue their quest to resurrect epic, almost ridiculous, grand rock on album three."
Total Guitar "If I could only make one bold proclamation about music this year, it is this: LostAlone are the most underrated band in the world.
Of all time" Alternative Press On 15 October 2014 the band announced that they were to split after completing the rest of their European tour and two UK shows in London and their home town of Derby on 19 December.
The 10-track album, written and recorded in London, Derby, Nottingham and New York features the reformed band following their six year hiatus.
The band's style combines fast, heavy riffs with slower, melodic sections and strong vocal harmonies to create a sound that cannot be easily pigeonholed, it sits somewhere within the rock/alternative scene.
LostAlone have toured extensively across the UK and Europe,[9] supporting several bands, most notably Thirty Seconds to Mars, Enter Shikari, Paramore and My Chemical Romance.
Shortly after the tour finished the band announced a headline run in April to coincide with the release of their new album.
UK tour in April which received more critical acclaim including a KKKKK 5/5 review for the Manchester show in Kerrang!
The band spent the summer of 2014 on the festival circuit including sonisphere Merthyr Rocks and many more than into a European tour beginning in Madrid and ending in Berlin.
The music videos for the singles "Blood Is Sharp" and "Unleash The Sands Of All Time" have been in rotation on many music channels across Europe / UK, including MTV, VH1, and Scuzz.Some high-profile bands have declared support for the band by mentioning them frequently in interviews around the world, including all members of My Chemical Romance, Gerard Way, Hayley Williams, Jared Leto, and Bruce Dickinson.
In an interview with Rock & Rose, singer Steven Battelle expressed surprise at this level of mainstream exposure: "Being play-listed on Radio 1, that's huge.
You get spot plays on the evening shows but now we're proper daytime radio and that's not something that I thought would happen with our band, not straight away anyway.
"[14] Pre release the hype surrounding the artistic quality of Shapes of Screams was talked about by many contemporary bands using the social networking site Twitter to show support for the record.
In 2024 Steven Battelle gave an exclusive interview to the People Behind The Pedals podcast where he talked about his guitars, equipment and recent writing collaboration with McFly.