songs, and fully re-mix the release. Moonlight Survived was completed by the end of November 2003, and the band quickly signed with Atlantic Records and McTernan's new Atlantic Records imprint, Salad Days Records, created specifically to release the band's music. The album was originally scheduled for release in May 2004, but it would ultimately be delayed by three months. Release, packaging and promotion On December 12, 2003, the band released These Days Will Fade through Salad Days Records. The release included the songs "Stratus" and "Broken Promises", which were also scheduled to appear on Moonlight Survived; and "Curtain Call" and "The Silencing Truth", which were b-sides from the recording session and exclusive to this release. The extended play was offered as a free download (an idea suggested by McTernan), exclusively through the band's website and through webzine AbsolutePunk. It also included an extensive digital booklet designed by Shelby Cinca and Gabriel Baldessin at Passkontrol. The band later stated in interviews that These Days Will Fade was intended as both an introduction to the band and a teaser of the forthcoming full-length album. On March 23, 2004, Atlantic Records re-issued These Days Will Fade through all major digital retailers and also pressed a limited amount of promotional compact discs. On June 15, 2004, Atlantic Records and Salad Days Records released "Stratus" as the extended play's first single, digitally and on compact disc; the release included an exclusive radio edit version of the song. On the same day, the two record labels also released a compact disc sampler, which included all three previously-released songs from the band's forthcoming album: "Stratus", "Broken Promises" and "My Dying Day". The sampler managed to reach No. 2 on CMJ New Music Report's Loud College Rock Adds, No. 3 on Loud Rock Crucial Spins Add, and No. 14 on CMJ Top 200 Adds, on June 21, 2004. On July 17, 2004, Moments in Grace filmed a music video for the lead single "Stratus", with director Laurent Briet in Los Angeles, California. The video premiered on August 12, 2004, five days before Moonlight Survived was released, and later aired on MTV and Fuse. On July 19, 2004, Moments in Grace was invited to MTV's Paramount Plaza studio for a photo shoot and video interview promoting These Days Will Fade and the forthcoming Moonlight Survived. Moonlight Survived was released on August 17, 2004, through Atlantic Records and Salad Days