According to an interview with vocalist Jonathan Mess, the album took its name from Battle Mountain, Nevada which the band visited while the album was being written.
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This was the last Dance Gavin Dance album to have Sean O'Sullivan on guitar, and the only full length album to have Jonny Craig on vocals, until his rejoining in 2010.
Battle of Waterloo | Battle of Britain | Battle of the Somme | downtown | Battle of the Bulge | mountain | Battle of Gettysburg | Battle Creek, Michigan | Battle of France | Battle of Trafalgar | Downtown | Mountain View, California | Battle of Hastings | Battle of Antietam | battle | Mountain Dew | Mountain | Battle of Shiloh | Battle of Midway | Battle of Belleau Wood | Battle of the Alamo | Battle of Leipzig | Battle of Agincourt | Table Mountain | Battle of Verdun | Battle of Thermopylae | Battle of the Plains of Abraham | Kenesaw Mountain Landis | Downtown Miami | Downtown Los Angeles |
They entered the studio in January 2007 with producer Kris Crummet and released their debut full-length album, Downtown Battle Mountain on May 15, 2007 on Rise Records.