The Taking Back Sunday story is a long one.

Beginning in Long Island, N.Y. in 1999, the five member screamo band released “Tell All Your Friends” in 2002 to anxiously awaiting angst-ridden teens.

It didn’t take too long before the band had to deal with competition from local band Brand New, both musically and personally.

The bands squabbled over a girl (how emo is that), before calling a truce and going on a national tour together.

Then the band hit a roadblock. Front man and lyricist Jon Nolan left the band to start the piano-based, light punk rock group Straylight Run with his sister.

Slowly, things got better. With the release of “Where You Want To Be” in 2004, the band picked up Matt Rubano to fill in for Nolan and the microphones kept swinging.

With “Louder Now,” the band has shown growth and maturity.

Instead of screaming over four-chord progressions which brought the boys to where they are today, the band ups the ante. Songs rely more on harmonies, both vocally (“Twenty-Twenty Surgery”) and musically (“Miami”), though trace elements of the screamo genre remain (“Spin,” “Error: Operator”).

From the infectious “What’s it Feel Like to be a Ghost” to the cello-laced “My Blue Heaven” to the acoustic ballad “Divine Intervention,” the band shows they have overcome their past and can look to the future.

So here’s to four-chord progressions and all they offer us. And here’s to Taking Back Sunday and everything they’ve gone through to get to where they are today.