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ATTICS TO EDEN IS IN STORES NOW! For Chicago’s Madina Lake, working with esteemed producer David Bendeth on the eagerly-anticipated Attics to Eden, the experimental follow-up to their 2007 Roadrunner Records debut From Them, Through Us, to You, was an honor and a sincere privilege. After all, the man has worked with the likes of The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Breaking Benjamin, and label-mates Killswitch Engage, and he’s even helmed Paramore’s recent breakout LP, Riot! But by the same token, the two months the band spent with Bendeth — within the platinum plaque-lined walls of his House of Loud Studios, planted smack dab in the desolate thick of Elmwood Park, New Jersey — completing the record was ultimately humbling. That’s because crafting and tracking what would become their sophomore full-length was an experience tantamount to rock and roll boot camp, according to bassist and backing vocalist Matthew Leone. “David broke us down — he was like a drill sergeant,” Matthew said, of th...