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After 20 years of music, Hawthorne Heights is taking it back to where it all began two decades ago.

The Emo band from Ohio, will be playing its first album, 鈥淭he Silence in Black and White,鈥� in its entirety on the 20 Years of Tears Tour, which makes a stop at Revel Entertainment, 4720 Alexander Blvd. NE, on Monday, Sept. 2. Hawthorne Heights will be joined by Saosin, Anberlin, Cartel, Stick to Your Guns and This Wild Life.

鈥淔or this one, specifically, we鈥檙e playing our first album, 鈥楾he Silence in Black and White,鈥� 鈥� said J.T. Woodruff, Hawthorne Heights guitarist. 鈥淭he set list is actually very easy. We don鈥檛 have to argue. We don鈥檛 have to choose. We just go up there and play the record and we鈥檒l play a couple other songs as well.鈥�

He said it has been 鈥渃ool鈥� to dig into the songs and realize why they were written and what the fans like about the songs.

鈥淓mo doesn鈥檛 die, which is awesome,鈥� Woodruff said. 鈥淲hen we first started playing shows, the only idea was that you wanted to play more shows, not that you wanted to become some sort of like 20 year critical darling.鈥�

Woodruff said in the beginning it was mostly about playing as many shows possible and now the band has returned to that same goal.

鈥淲hat our main path was for this year was to try and see if we can hold to that same ethos, which was try to play as many shows as we can in as many different places as we can, to really just continue to spread these songs around, even though it鈥檚 been 20 years,鈥� he explained.

Woodruff said many people have come up the band saying they have never seen Hawthorne Heights before.

鈥淲e have 15- year-olds coming to the shows for the first time and we鈥檙e like, how do you even know who we are?,鈥� he explained. 鈥淎ll these new groups of bands, kind of list us as people that they listen to, to kind of form their band. It鈥檚 really cool (coming) full circle. (It鈥檚 a) weird moment. It doesn鈥檛 happen to very many people. And we are just so appreciative if anybody cares at all, 20 years later.鈥�

Revisiting music from 20 years ago has been a nostalgic journey that involves some critique from the band.

鈥淚t鈥檚 like getting back behind the wheel of your your first car when you turn 16-years-old,鈥� Woodruff said. 鈥淚 think it鈥檚 really easy to be self critical when you鈥檙e in a band, especially when it鈥檚 your first record. So a year later, you鈥檙e thinking, man, we could have done so much better, because you鈥檙e a better musician at that point. And now, you think the reverse of it, because your fans have consistently told you for 20 years that this is an album that they love.鈥�

He said in hindsight if the band had attempted to make the music better that it might have instead made the music worse.

鈥淢aybe some of the magic of it is that you had no idea what the hell you were doing and then you were just kind of playing stuff that you loved,鈥� Woodruff explained. 鈥淵ou weren鈥檛 trying to have any success with it. You weren鈥檛 trying to write a hit song. You were just trying to write out your emotions. I think it鈥檚 cool because we need to look back honorably on it instead of wondering what would have happened, should we change something or if we had more time creating it.鈥�

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