Ashes Divide is the name used for the solo project of
American rock musician
Billy Howerdel, guitarist of the
alternative rock band
A Perfect Circle, where he is the primary songwriter, musician, producer, and vocalist. The project's debut album,
Keep Telling Myself It's Alright, was released in 2008. Howerdel formed a live band and toured in support of the album through the rest of the year, but the project fell to the wayside after A Perfect Circle reformed and toured in 2010 and 2011. Howerdel would work on both projects for a while until late 2012, where he announced his primary focus is completing the second album, of which he hoped to enter the
mixing phase in January or February 2013.