 The following year of 2011, the band returned to the same recording studio owned and operated by Juan Ortega that Defiance had recorded their final album, The Prophecy, in 2006-2009.Severed Fifth proceeded to record their first full length album entitled Liberate.Liberate was officially released on February 3, 2012 under the Creative Commons License, the album's content is available freely for non-commercial purposes.