[2] In November the band announced they'd completed work on the album, and that The groups own rhythm guitarist Kurt Fraunfelter oversaw the engineering of the release with Zeuss (Whitechapel, Chimaira) handling mixing duties at Planet Z Studios in Hadley, Massachusetts.

[8] On August 15, 2012, the band announced that their upcoming EP would be titled Temple and would arrive on September 25, to be released independently via their label Eye.On Lion Records.

It’s important for us to have a fan feel, see, and hear the finished piece as closely to the creative source of energy as possible.

Eye.On Lion is a way for us to offer our artistic creations to those who choose to support us and by proxy, excludes a lot of ‘middle-people’.”[9]In September 2012, the band released another track, titled "The Great Rebuilding," via absolutepunk.net.

[11] In 2012, the band performed with Metallica at Orion Music + More,[7] as well as Party to the Apocalypse 2012 starring Shadows Fall, God Forbid and Trumpet the Harlot.