Puciato elaborating in a blog post for Spotify that they would be "giving more than we would be gaining" by signing to an outside label, and that "everything I used to see as help, I suddenly saw as unnecessary at best, and a liability at worst."
In January 2013, Greg Puciato revealed plans for a new project with Joshua Eustis in an interview with Revolver Magazine,[3] later releasing a teaser video on their official homepage under the name The Black Queen in 2015.
[9] Following this, 233 limited edition copies of The End Where We Start were made available for purchase on 12" vinyl, and sold only from the band's official website on July 9, 2015.
[13] The video is shot on location in Los Angeles, largely in the skid row area, near where the band resided together during the creation of the album.
The same day, the band's debut album, Fever Daydream, became available for purchase through their official Bandcamp account, limited to 1000 copies on black vinyl and CD, as well as worldwide in independent record stores.
[22] On June 15, 2018, the band announced that a new album called Infinite Games would be released on September 28, as well as the formation of a label named Federal Prisoner with Jesse Draxler.
"[24] Josh Eustis took a break from Touring in The Black Queen to focus on new material for Telefon Tel Aviv, But remains a full-time member of the band.