During summer 2009, Billy Talent toured North America with Rise Against and Rancid . On February 26, the band was announced for Download festival in the U.K. They also played in Columbus, Ohio at Rock on the Range in May 2009. During the Melbourne Soundwave show, Kowalewicz announced they would…
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Cancer Bats returned to the UK in 2009, after Swedish melodic metal band In Flames cancelled their April 2009 concerts, on which Cancer Bats were slated to be main support. The band is also featured on Gallows ‘ latest album Grey Britain on May 2. On August 1, Cancer Bats…
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the DVD shipping March 31, 2009.
In March 2009, the band performed a special show with their original line-up for Musique Plus’s (French Much Music ) punk rock show 1-2-3 Punk! 10th anniversary. They played with GrimSkunk , The Sainte Catherines , Vulgaires Machins , The Planet Smashers , and Subb .
In March 2009, USS released their first full-length album, Questamation , through their independent label, Smashing World Records. For the recording, the duo teamed up with Matthew Von Wagner ( Crystal Castles , Alpha Galates ) for production and engineering, while Chris Davies and Charles Topping ‘aided musically’. Music engineer…
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In March 2009, they went on tour at the annual Taste of Chaos festival along with Thursday , Four Year Strong , Pierce the Veil and Bring Me the Horizon , keeping a daily blog on their website. At about this time Cancer Bats were also featured in Bring Me…
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The album itself was released on February 10, 2009. It was produced by Nick Raskulinecz (Foo Fighters, Velvet Revolver, Rush).
By late 2008, Helix began working on a new studio album, their 12th, following up A Heavy Mental Christmas . These recording sessions coincided with another new Helix lineup: In February 2009, Brent “The Doctor” Doerner joined the band for the third time. Sean Kelly , singer and lead guitarist…
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In February 2009, Vollmer reunited the surviving members of the No Rest for the Wicked lineup (Brent Doerner, Mike Uzelac and Greg Hinz) to record a new version of the AC/DC classic ” It’s a Long Way to the Top “, to be included on a compilation album. Concurrent to…
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Dan Chandler was announced as the new singer for Evans Blue in February 2009, and the band went into the studio with producer Trevor Kustiak to record their third album. The self-titled album was released through Sounds+Sights, exclusively via iTunes, on June 23, 2009.