The surviving members of the band, including Mesaros, performed together as The Smithereens in a tribute show to DiNizio on January 13, 2018, at the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank, NJ. In a five-hour concert, the band was joined by Steven Van Zandt , Dave Davies , Ted Leo…
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Vinyl reissues and expanded CD sets of ”Attack of the Grey Lantern” and “Six” were released in 2018 and 2019, respectively.
Their compilation album, Vestige of Scratches , was released on January 2, 2018. Dir En Grey’s twenty-ninth single “Ningen wo Kaburu” was released on April 25, 2018. One of its B-sides is a remake of “Ash”, a song with origins as far back as 1997.
In fall 2018, the band tweeted that they would do a “Back from the Dead! One Night Only!” show at The Pageant in St. Louis on Oct. 27 to celebrate 15 years of the band and the 10-year anniversary of You’re Awful, I Love You . Dubbed “HalLUDOween” , the…
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The band released an EP Water on February 9, 2018, which featured the lead single “Roll On Bye”. Less than a week after the release of Water , the band announced they had begun recording a follow-up EP in Nashville , Tennessee . The EP Wind was released on September…
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In 2018, after the tour supporting California , Hoppus formed the spin-off project Simple Creatures with All Time Low frontman Alex Gaskarth .
Alkaline Trio opened for the Misfits on December 28 and 30, 2017.
The equipment of all five members was powered by hydrogen fuel cells for their December 23 and 24 concerts at the Saitama Super Arena.
The band’s ninth studio album Luv was released on December 20.
On December 15, 2017, it was announced that the band’s former rhythm guitarist Nathan Strayer had died. He was 34.