 Described as " melody and lushness meets brutality , " the band released their debut full @-@ length album Too Bad You 're Beautiful in 2001 . The album featured former band member Benjamin Perri on harsh vocals , with Mark providing the clean vocals and acted as drummer . 2003 saw the release of The Fiction We Live and 2005 , the release of Abandon Your Friends , the last From Autumn to Ashes album with Perri and Mark in their respective roles . After Perri 's departure shortly after Abandon Your Friends , Mark became lead vocalist and in 2007 , the band released Holding a Wolf by the Ears . On June 9 , 2008 the band announced that they had gone on " indefinite hiatus . " They insisted that the decision was amicable and the band had simply reached its natural conclusion . 
