On September 12, Big Machine Records released Shock to the System (Part Two), a seven-track EP marking a stark shift in sound. This sounds crazy, but I didn't know I had permission," said Chris Daughtry, according to Spin. This EP follows last year's Part One, which shot two tracks to the top of Billboard's Active Rock chart, "Artificial" and "Pieces." Rather than wait to finish a full album, the band split the work to speed up the release. "We knew that we were going to lose a pocket of our audience," Daughtry told Spin.