“Bone Palace Ballet,” the latest album from Michigan band, Chiodos, is like theater for your ears.

This album, released on Sept. 4 on Equal Vision Records, whisks the listener away to a magical place full of thundering mountains, haunted forests, pirate ships and any other visual that would make a small child cry out in fear, or make a poet smile.

Produced by Casey Bates and mixed by David Bendeth, this album takes hardcore to another level.

The band shows their high-tension sound best on the song, “Bulls Make Money, Bears Make Money, Pigs Get Slaughtered,” with lyrics like: “Did my heart love until now?/Cause I feel that I’ve never seen/beauty till this night/I’m forever, yeah, I’m forever yours.”

The lyrics compete with background screams and double bass pedals.

Bates has also produced albums for bands such as Fear Before the March of Flames and Gatsby’s American Dream, and Bendeth has previously mixed for Red Jumpsuit Apparatus and Paramore.

Chiodos’ album, “Bone Palace Ballet,” kicks off with the song, “Is It Progression If A Cannibal Uses A Fork.” The song uses a piano to mimic the blasting guitars and then brings in an orchestral sound that could rival My Chemical Romance.

The album also has a break up song on it called, “A Letter From Janelle.”

The song starts with a keyboard and lead vocals of Craigery Owens, which then competes with the background instruments, so the words, “It’s so easy to get lost in constantly having to present/whatever face you believe a person wants to see rather than your own,” can be heard.

The band seems to realize its potential in the song, “I Didn’t Say I Was Powerful, I Said I Was A Wizard,” by Owens singing: “Attention, all of my worst critics/Who were once the best of friends/You’re all just crows on the power lines.” Here, it seems like Owens is giving the verbal finger to anyone who has ever told him that he would never make it as a musician.

The album closes with the song, “The Undertaker’s Thirst For Revenge Is Unquenchable (The Final Battle).” The song sounds like an audio storm, starting with lightning coming off the mix of a snare drum and guitars turned up to 10.

Owens lets his voice go into a scream, and automatically, a bloody battlefield is visualized. The drums seem to take on the persona of mortar shells, and the sky it lit with fire and chaos.

Chiodos has been featured in Blender, Spin, The New York Times and Billboard magazines, as well as Alternative Press Magazine. The band, which headlined the 2007 Van’s Warped Tour, is currently on tour with Emery, Scary Kids Scaring Kids and The Devil Wears Prada. The band will be in Sauget on Saturday and Chicago on Sunday.

This album proves to be an audio representation of everything going on in the world, brought into consciousness using more than just words. The over-the-top sound might be too much for other bands to handle, but Chiodos presents it beautifully.

They’re the type of band that will kick you in the gut and then pick you up and dust you off, just to knock you over again.