Stomachaches: release dates, catalog numbers and pressing variants

Kerrang! gave Stomachaches four K out of a possible five. The label that released the album published that score on 27 August 2014, two days after it posted that the record was out, on a page whose headline spelled the rating as KKKK. An encyclopedia footnote still points at that page, and this article restores a source trail at the same address.

The score is the easy part. Everything else about this record is harder to pin down than it looks, starting with three different release dates across four sources. Staple News is independent, with no connection to the Staple Records label that used this domain and none to Frank Iero; how the site came to sit here is set out in About Staple News. Dates, catalog numbers and credits below come from the label’s own archived posts and from Discogs entries, which are community maintained transcriptions of what a release prints rather than label documents. Each is linked at first use.

What the cited page actually carried

The archived copy of that URL runs to three sentences. It is dated 27 August 2014, it says the new issue of Kerrang! carried a KKKK review, and it posted the review as a scan under a line admitting the magazine had not been asked. The review text is not in the archived HTML, so nothing here describes what the review argued or who wrote it.

Wikipedia leans on that one page twice: for the Kerrang! rating in its ratings box, and for two of the genre words in its infobox. Both trace back to an image.

Alternative Press had already scored it. The label also documented Alternative Press coverage of Senses Fail’s Renacer. On 11 August 2014, two weeks before release, the label posted that the magazine gave the record 4 out of 5 stars. Two magazine scores, both reported by the label rather than by the magazines, both dated.

Release dates across four sources

The label announced the record on 16 June 2014 for release on 26 August. It then posted that the album was out on 25 August. The inspected entry for the US CD records 24 August, and the entry for the European CD records 25 August.

Nothing here settles which one is right. What the two label posts show is that the label announced one date in June and then ran its release day copy on a different one in August.

How the record got made, in the label’s words

The June press release quotes Iero on where the songs started: “I turned my basement office into a makeshift studio and every time I felt the pain coming on I’d go downstairs”. The same release says he played every instrument except drums, which Jarrod Alexander handled, that the album began in his own B.Calm home studio and was later recorded at North End Recording in Passaic, New Jersey, and that Ed Rose mixed at St. Albans West. The release day post repeats the Ed Rose credit in a single line.

The US CD entry fills in the rest of the chain: Kevin Antreassian recording, David Chutka also credited on the mix, Dave Collins mastering, and art direction shared between Iero and Heather Gabel. Ed Rose is named in all three sources and is absent from the Wikipedia personnel list inspected for this article.

Catalog numbers by territory

Both US numbers sit under Staple Records with Workhorse Music Group credited as the record company. The encyclopedia’s own release history table lists the two Hassle numbers and a Vagrant download and stops there, even though its infobox names Staple as the label. The two US catalog numbers in these inspected entries are absent from that table.

Six colours under one catalog number

Several vinyl editions share WH48. The Staple Records label index enters translucent yellow, pink, blue, clear, a magenta pressing and a 2015 glow variant under that single number, plus a white repress in 2017 entered as WH-48.

The yellow entry records 500 copies, an embossed front cover, a lyric insert and a download card, pressed by MPO with lacquers cut at SST. The magenta entry is the interesting one: it records that the artist disliked the colour and had it changed to bubblegum pink, that the magenta and the corrected colour together come to 1,000 copies, and that both went out by pre-order from the artist’s own store rather than to shops.

The two anniversary pressings

Hassle Records put out a hand numbered reissue on 30 October 2020 as HOFF15X15LP03, 1,000 copies in crystal clear and silver, wrapped in a cuff marking the label’s fifteenth anniversary and licensed from Staple Records.

The tenth anniversary edition landed four years later. The entry for the deluxe double LP records 29 November 2024, 1,000 copies, clear with pink, green and blue splatter, on BMG. A second variant of the same edition, also capped at 1,000, had been announced three months earlier.

Collectors in r/FrankIero tracked both in real time and asked the two questions a catalog page can answer. In August 2024 a buyer noted the second variant “seems to be exclusive to the US store again”. In December a UK buyer with no tracking number believed the order had shipped on 29 November, which is the same date the entry records for the release.

Identifying a copy

Start with format, territory and catalog number, then compare the colour descriptor and the package details. A WH48 listing needs more information than the number alone, while HOFF15X15LP03 points to the separate label anniversary edition. The entries above were read on 6 September 2026; no physical copy was inspected for this guide. Counts and colours remain attributed to those entries. Our editorial standards cover how to send a correction.