After the band’s set on July 14, 2016 at the Grog Shop in Cleveland, when the band was expected to return to the stage for an encore, Nick Mitchell was fired in the dressing room next to the stage.
On July 14, 2016, guitarist James “Munky” Shaffer revealed to Metal Hammer that Corey Taylor of Slipknot / Stone Sour would make a guest appearance on the new album.
On July 14, 2016, bassist Ben Shepherd and Cameron stated that the band had written “six solid tunes” for the new album, with more writing to be done in August.
On July 13, 2016, the band released an EP called 3 Demos, Reworked . The EP contains re-recorded versions of 3 songs that appear on Leaked Demos 2006 .
On the next night, 9 July, the Manics headlined a night at the Cornwall’s Eden Project , and later the band managed to secure a new recording studio near Newport, Wales .
On 8 July the band was at the Cardiff City Stadium to give a home welcome to the Wales football national team after they were knocked out of the UEFA Euro 2016 by Portugal in the semi-finals, the band played a few songs in the stadium including the official theme…
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On July 5, the band played their first complete full-band concert in two years in Barcelona, Spain as a warm up for their upcoming summer festival dates in Canada, Portugal, Spain and USA.
While the production of the ninth album was postponed by Matt Skiba’s work with Blink-182 , in an interview on July 3, 2016, Skiba assured that the album would move forward, saying, “I’ll be writing for a new Alkaline Trio record while on this summer tour so once things with…
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On 3 July 2016, it was announced that the Pillows would be providing the soundtrack for the anime series FLCL over two new seasons that eventually aired in 2018.
The band released a single, “Utafumi”, in July 2016. They also embarked on various tours based around previous albums called Tour16-17 From Depression To ________ [mode of Vulgar] , Tour16-17 From Depression To ________ [mode of Dum Spiro Spero] , and Tour16-17 From Depression to ________ [mode of 鬼葬] from…
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