War All the Time’s first-week showing was strong, though. The album sold 74,000 copies and debuted at number seven on the Billboard 200 chart on October 4, 2003—one slot below Beyoncé’s Dangerously in Love. For Thursday, these were milestones beyond anything they’d ever imagined. Their little hardcore band had crawled their way out of the basements of a college town in New Jersey to make a top ten record. “It’s sort of surreal. It doesn’t even make sense to me,” Rickly told Billboard that week.
