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Jimmy Eat World is an American alternative rock band from Mesa, Arizona, formed in 1993. The band is composed of lead vocalist and guitarist Jim Adkins, guitarist and backing vocalist Tom Linton, bassist Rick Burch and drummer Zach Lind. The band originally formed with a punk rock sound, first releasing a demo tape in 1993, followed by their first EP in 1994, titled One, Two, Three, Four. The four piece's commercial breakthrough came with the successful release of several singles from the album Bleed American, four singles charted within the top 20 of the Hot Modern Rock Tracks, "The Middle" peaked at number one. Jimmy Eat World followed up with Futures, featuring another Modern Rock Tracks number one, "Pain." The band's sixth album Chase This Light, became the band's highest charting album, peaking at number five on the Billboard 200. The band has announced that Invented, the follow up to 2007's Chase This Light, will be released on September 28, 2010.