Apologies Are for the Weak is the debut album and third release from the Metalcore

Metalcore

Metalcore is a subgenre of heavy metal combining various elements of extreme metal and hardcore punk. The name is a portmanteau of the names of the two genres. The term took on its current meaning in the mid-1990s, describing bands such as Earth Crisis, Deadguy and Integrity...

 band Miss May I

Miss May I

Miss May I is an American metalcore band from Troy, Ohio. On December 6, 2008, Miss May I announced that they had been signed to Rise Records. The band's debut album, Apologies Are for the Weak, reached #29 on Billboard's Top Heatseekers, and #66 on Top Independent Albums. Their song, "Forgive and...

, and their last with bassist and clean vocalist Josh Gillespie. The album reached #29 on Billboard's Top Heatseekers

Top Heatseekers

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, and #66 on Top Independent Albums. The album sold well over 25,000 copies in one year. Music videos were made for two of the songs, "Architect" and "Forgive and Forget". The album's title track, "Apologies Are for the Weak", was featured in the 2011 video game Saints Row: The Third.

Music videos

The first video was "Architect", which showed the band playing live in Columbus, Ohio with The Crimson Armada

The Crimson Armada

The Crimson Armada is an American metalcore band from Columbus, Ohio. The band initially formed in Westerville, Ohio in 2007, but after several live shows and demos the band went on hiatus. After pressure from the local music scene, the group reformed a year later...

. The second video for "Forgive and Forget" was more elaborate. The video starts with a boy who is evidently home alone. After coloring, he falls asleep while watching a propaganda television program on nuclear power. Shortly after, a man walks into the living room, and more people enter. The band is shown playing in two locations, a stage, and spread out in the house, where the crowd of people are all moshing and destroying everything. After a period of time, two men enter to make the people leave the house. The two men then come back to the boy, who is asleep. They soon disappear as the boy wakes up to find his home almost completely destroyed as the television program ends.

Track list

Personnel

Miss May I

• Levi Benton - lead vocals
  Lead vocalist
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• Jerod Boyd - drums
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• B.J. Stead - guitar
  Guitar
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• Justin Aufdenkampe - guitars
• Josh Gillispie - bass guitar
  Bass guitar
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  , clean vocals
  Singing
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Production

• Production
  Sound recording and reproduction
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  , engineering
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   and mixing
  Audio mixing (recorded music)
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   by Joey Sturgis
• Artwork and design
  Graphic design
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  by Dan Mumford