Editing Full Collapse (section)

==Background and production==
Thursday released their debut album, ''[[Waiting (Thursday album)|Waiting]]'', in November 1999 through [[Eyeball Records]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.billhenderson.org/discdetail.php?id=6|title=Thursday - Waiting|publisher=Bill Henderson|access-date=February 6, 2018|archive-date=February 7, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180207010024/http://www.billhenderson.org/discdetail.php?id=6|url-status=live}}</ref> With the band touring more often, all of the members dropped out of [[Rutgers University]].<ref name=BPBThursday>{{cite web|url=https://www.browardpalmbeach.com/music/tgi-thursday-6322207|title=TGI Thursday|work=[[New Times Broward-Palm Beach]]|author=Bowker, Tom|date=August 1, 2002|access-date=February 18, 2021|archive-date=February 18, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210218160445/https://www.browardpalmbeach.com/music/tgi-thursday-6322207|url-status=live}}</ref> As they lacked a permanent second guitarist, the band had multiple people filling in on guitar.<ref name=Kludgeinterview/> Guitarist Steve Pedulla, whose brother was friends with members of Thursday, joined the band in 2000 after filling in for a show.<ref name=Kludgeinterview/><ref name=PNinterview/> Eyeball was aware that Thursday was outgrowing what support they could provide, and asked other labels to sign the band. ''Waiting'' received enough attention to be noticed by [[Victory Records]], who flew out representatives to watch them play a show in their hometown.<ref name=Kludgeinterview/><ref name=VictoryBio/><ref name=PNinterview>{{cite web|url=https://www.punknews.org/article/1566/interviews-thursday|title=Thursday|publisher=Punknews.org|author=Paul, Aubin|date=June 18, 2001|access-date=February 18, 2021|archive-date=April 8, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200408054639/https://www.punknews.org/article/1566/interviews-thursday|url-status=live}}</ref> By the time the band signed with Victory, they were able to tour full-time.<ref name=Kludgeinterview/> Drummer Tucker Rule said the reason they went with Victory was that the label had previously signed [[Earth Crisis]] and [[Refused]]. Bassist Tim Payne said Thursday was one of a few acts that strayed from the label's typical [[hardcore punk]] style.<ref name=Smashinerview>{{cite web|url=http://www.smash-mag.com/interviews/thursday2.htm|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050429004110/http://www.smash-mag.com/interviews/thursday2.htm|title='Vorband von Pink – nicht für 100.000$'|publisher=Smash|author=Isenbügel, Marc|date=May 16, 2004|archivedate=April 29, 2005|accessdate=April 29, 2022}}</ref>

After signing, they were told by their friends that they would find themselves in "a situation that we would regret".<ref name=PNstatement/> The members of Thursday were unsure what their friends were referring to&nbsp;– they assumed that the signing would work out fine.<ref name=PNstatement/> They wrote the new songs in a collaborative manner. In comparison, most of the songs on ''Waiting'' were written by a single person.<ref name=PNinterview/> The majority of the songs that ended up on ''Full Collapse'' were written in the basement of frontman [[Geoff Rickly]]'s parents' house.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.rollingstone.com:80/artists/thursday/articles/story/5938758/new_faces_thursday|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090214045715/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/thursday/articles/story/5938758/new_faces_thursday|title=New Faces: Thursday|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|author=Miller, Kirk|date=August 30, 2002|archive-date=February 14, 2009|access-date=February 19, 2021|url-status=dead}}</ref> They began recording the new album after a US tour.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://rock.yahoo.com/rock/music_news/amuznet/story.html?s=n/amuznet/rock/news/20001016/20001016003|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010925093155/http://rock.yahoo.com/rock/music_news/amuznet/story.html?s=n%2Famuznet%2Frock%2Fnews%2F20001016%2F20001016003|title=Victory Records Signs Thursday|publisher=[[Yahoo! Music]]|author=Galleno, Daniel|archive-date=September 25, 2001|access-date=February 18, 2021|url-status=live}}</ref> Sessions were held at [[Big Blue Meenie Recording Studio]]s in [[Jersey City, New Jersey]], with producer [[Sal Villanueva]] of metal band Demonspeed. The sessions in November 2000 lasted for 20 days.<ref name=VictoryBio>{{cite web|url=http://www.victoryrecords.com/thursday.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010202210200/http://www.victoryrecords.com/thursday.html|title=Thursday|publisher=[[Victory Records]]|archive-date=February 2, 2001|access-date=February 18, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/68866/thursdays-war-rages-on-island|title=Thursday's 'War' Rages On Island|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|date=October 1, 2003|access-date=February 4, 2018|archive-date=October 31, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161031003740/http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/68866/thursdays-war-rages-on-island|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=FCbooklet/> Tim Giles and Erin Farley acted as [[Audio engineer|engineer]]s, with assistance from Codie Brown. Giles [[Audio mixing (recorded music)|mixed]] the recordings, before the album was [[Mastering (audio)|mastered]] by Timo G. Less at Surgical Sound.<ref name=FCbooklet/>