Petitioning the Empty Sky [SEP] record label
released through Ferret Music in 1996 and was also one of the earliest albums released through the newly formed label. This early version was a 7" EP featuring only the first four tracks of the eventual full-length. Later that same year the record was re-released with four new tracks added to it. Two years later, the album was reissued through Converge's new label Equal Vision Records as EVR040 on January 20, 1998. The full length reissue contained three live tracks ("For You," "Homesong
The remaster was Equal Vision's EVR109 released on March 22, 2005.
In 2006, Jacob Bannon's Deathwish Inc. released a vinyl box set collection for the remasters of "Petitioning the Empty Sky" and "When Forever Comes Crashing" in a package dubbed "Petitioning Forever". Due to the physical limitations of a vinyl LP, a single 12" record cannot hold all of the songs from the remaster. The three live tracks were released separately with the first pressing on a 7" vinyl with its own