Flashing (weatherproofing) bark was occasionally used as a flashing material. Most flashing materials today are metal, plastic, rubber, or impregnated paper. Metal flashing materials include lead, aluminium, copper, stainless steel, zinc alloy, other architectural metals or a metal with a coating such as galvanized steel, lead-coated copper, anodized aluminum, terne-coated copper, galvalume (aluminum-zinc alloy coated sheet steel), and metals similar to stone-coated metal roofing. Metal flashing should be provided with expansion joints on long runs to prevent deformation of the metal sheets due to expansion and contraction, and should not stain or be stained by adjacent materials or react chemically with them.
What It Is to Burn at the Reading and Leeds Festivals in the UK. In September, the group performed a few shows in Japan. In October and November, the band went tour across the US alongside New Found Glory, Something Corporate and Further Seems Forever. In November and December, the group went on a UK tour with From Autumn to Ashes and Coheed and Cambria. Around this time, the group signed to MCA Records. MCA had a distribution deal that allowed them to acquire Drive-Thru Records' bands over a period of time. In January 2003, "What It Is to Burn" was released as a radio