After their album Legion of Boom was released, Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland decided to move into their new, state-of-the-art recording studio, called Crystalwerks.
In December 2008, they set up a remix contest for the song "Double Down Under" on the new album, and released the name of the lead single, "Drown in the Now", which features vocals by Matisyahu.
During an interview in early 2009, The Crystal Method were asked the release date of the album, and Ken Jordan simply stated: "Spring".
There are big, organic live drums and distortion and lots of bass and that sort of bombastic sound that we’ve been doing for so many years.
While some of the tracks were reminiscent of Crystal Method of the past, others seem to move beyond the style of music they pretty much pioneered.
[4]In March, 2009, The Crystal Method released the cover of the album, tour dates, a new website, and a pre-order sale on their online store.
In late April, 2009, The Crystal Method put one song from Divided by Night onto their Myspace page, "Sine language", which features the upcoming hip hop duo, LMFAO.
On the very same day that "Sine Language" was put on their Myspace page, The Crystal Method released the second single from Divided by Night, the song, "Black Rainbows" (exclusively to Beatport) which features vocals from Stefanie King Warfield, wife of Justin Warfield, who also contributes to Divided by Night himself on the track "Kling to the Wreckage".
On May 5, 2009, while flying to their first show in Boston via Virgin Airlines, The Crystal Method set up a one-hour online chat room that anyone could join for free.
This includes the full versions of every song on Divided by Night (except for "Play for Real", released on iTunes only).
In mid March, 2009, The Crystal Method released the cover of the new album, which features a giant globe made up of audio speaker heads hovering in mid-air.
When asked about the cover, Ken Jordan said, "On a recent plane trip to a DJ gig, we caught an amazing sight.
Scott Kirkland added, "Divided By Night immediately popped into my head, not so much as an album title but as a metaphor for our lives.
Scott Kirkland stated: "He [Matisyahu] delivered something unique that helped create a great vibe for the rest of the album.
Ken Jordan announced via The Crystal Method's Twitter account that "Come Back Clean" had multiple remixes by at least one artist, Kaskade, and that he could not wait for fans to hear them.
It was announced more than a year after the release of the single "Come Back Clean", on November 4, 2010, when the band scored a video game called Blur, and it was finally released on November 16, 2010, as a promotional remix EP by the official site of the electronic duo, that could be downloaded from the site by joining it.
LMFAO's raps are accompanied by a single edit and seven brand new remixes, including reworked versions by Richard Vission, Future Funk Squad, Moonbeam, Datsik, Metasyn, Omega and Von Ukuf.
The Divided by Night tour spanned across the United States and part of Canada, from early May to mid June.
The Crystal Method has played at the Reading and Leeds Festivals, and will continue to tour Europe until early November 2009.