On August 9, 2007, Career Suicide was announced for release, and the album's track listing was revealed. In August, the band supported Strung Out on their North American tour. "The Horse" and "These Dead Streets" were posted on the band's Myspace on October 2. The album was released on October 9. In October, the group went on a US tour with Only Crime and The Swellers. On October 25, "Die While We're Young" was made available for free download via Fuse's website. On October 30, a music video was released for "Die While We're Young" via Alternative Press. In November and December, the band went on tour alongside the Fall of Troy and Schoolyard Heroes. Following a UK tour, the band toured across the US in March and April 2008 alongside the Unseen. On April 1, a music video was released for "I Wipe My Ass with Showbiz". According to Alternative Press, the video "takes a shot at fashioned-obsessed music business executives". The band made an appearance at The Fest. On December 31, the band posted an outtake from the recording sessions, "The I Hate ___ Club", on their Myspace. Vocalist/guitarist Trevor Reilly said it was "easily in my top three of the Career Suicide session songs. Why was it left off the record you ask? Bill and Jason said 'no hate club or route 40 on the record' and we said 'ok.'" In January and February 2009, the band supported Streetlight Manifesto on their headlining tour of the US.
Music
A Wilhelm Scream made a conscious effort to abandon certain elements of their album Ruiner when writing Career Suicide. The band dropped many of the emo and post hardcore elements entirely. They also decided to forgo writing any slow or mid-tempo songs for the album, instead focusing on speed. Guitarist/vocalist Trevor Reilly mentioned that the goal of the band was to create a relentless album that would not have any "breaks" like their previous two albums had. As a result several songs on Career Suicide are shorter than two minutes in length and the tempos are significantly faster compared to A Wilhelm Scream's previous albums. The album's overall sound is closer to skate punk than melodic hardcore, but is still considered highly progressive and technical for the genre. Career Suicide was the debut album for bassist Brian Robinson with A Wilhelm Scream. Reilly would go on to say in later interviews that the album would not have been possible without Robinson's bass playing. He would go on to compare Robinson's introduction to the band as similar to Travis Barker's arrival in Blink 182; Robinson's bass playing was so advanced that Reilly himself, drummer Nick Angelini, and guitarist Chris Levesque felt inspired to be more proficient at their instruments and write more complex rhythms and riffs. This allowed A Wilhelm Scream to maintain their signature technical style while playing faster and shorter songs. Robinson also inspired Reilly to further his lead guitar playing and play more solos on Career Suicide, something that the guitarist first experimented with on Ruiner. The bassist himself also added several solos of his own on songs such as "The Horse", "Jaws 3, People 0", and "Check Request Denied". Career Suicide contains the longest song they have written to date.
Reception
It received mostly favorable reviews. It was also voted the best album of 2007 by Punknews.org readers.
Track listing
Videos
On September 17, 2007 the final cut of the video for the song "5 to 9" was released via the Nitro Records webpage.
On October 31, 2007 a video for the song "Die While We're Young" was released via the Nitro Records webpage. The video features footage from the band's recent European tour.
A video shooting for the song "I Wipe My Ass With Showbiz" was announced in a Myspace bulletin that detailed the video being shot at an undisclosed location, as well as at a show in Manchester, UK. This video was released on March 31, 2008 through the band's blog on MySpace.
