“It is the first song on the record and the title of our new album,” said vocalist Matt Skiba. “The song takes heroin addiction as a metaphor for love. The whole record is really personal, all three of us have been through quite a bit since our last album [2008’s…
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After finishing the US leg of the Hope for the Hopeless tour with InnerPartySystem , The White Tie Affair , and The Medic Droid , the European leg was interrupted when on October 21, 2008, Kill Hannah’s tour bus caught fire while driving through Switzerland. Almost all of their personal…
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Despite the discourse, the band persevered and by late 2008 the material they had been working on for the last five years was released. First, the band released a teaser of sorts through the three song Red Star EP. Secondly, two albums’ worth of material had been written, but with…
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In mid-2008, they wrote and recorded the score of the documentary feature film The Dungeon Masters .
When the band finished touring later during 2008, Rob Thomas began work on his second solo album, Cradlesong .
The band headlined the 2008 Kerrang! Tour in the U.K., where the band performed and recorded a cover of “The Trooper” by Iron Maiden , which is featured on Kerrang!’s Iron Maiden tribute album, Maiden Heaven , that came with the July 16 issue. They were nominated for Best International…
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On July 2, 2008, Queens of the Stone Age’s former keyboardist Natasha Shneider died of lung cancer at the age of 52. The news broke with a message posted on the MySpace page of the band Sweethead, of which Natasha’s close friend and former bandmate Troy Van Leeuwen is a…
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On March 30, 2008, Borland made a post on the band’s MySpace about how he filled in for the band X Japan and was “looking forward to coming home and getting back to work on the next BLB album”, by which he means the second full length Black Light Burns…
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and in the video game WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2008
Cave revealed his mindset during the creation of the album in a 2008 interview: “When I was making half that record I was furious because certain things had happened in my love life that seriously pissed me off. And some of those songs came straight out of that. I don’t…
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