It took nearly 5 years, but Mike Viola and the Candy Butchers finally hit the shelves with a full length record in late August ’99. Though fourteen songs in length, the album is lean and fast, shaving the stripped down woody acoustic sound of past efforts into rock urgency. “I loved Sabbath growing up. Priest, Maiden, loved that stuff. Pete kind of egged me on. I bought a distortion pedal and let it fly. I lost a lot of fans during this wall of guitars phase, including Todd who felt drowned out. But it was a necessary step towards wherever I was heading.”

Although at the time it came off like a release of pressure built up over years of silence, in retrospect, Falling Into Place becomes a telling introductory act to a personal journey that would take Mike (and us) through the next five years.