For Chicago's Madina Lake, working with esteemed producer David Bendeth on 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 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.