Bass player Andrew McCracken left to concentrate on his design company Doublenaut . His spot was filled in by Jason Bailey (former member of Figure Four and Shattered Realm) for most of 2007. However, Bailey was then replaced by Jaye R. Schwarzer (formerly of Left Behind, Hope to Die, Minesweeper,…
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Gob’s friendship with several Canadian bands has come up often in the past few years. During Gob’s downtime, Thacker has played lead guitar for Sum 41 live since 2007 because of the departure of their lead guitarist, Dave Baksh . Since then, Thacker has become Baksh’s permanent replacement in Sum…
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Reunion Tour was released on September 25, 2007, in North America by Epitaph and ANTI- . The band released a video for “Civil Twilight”, which consisted of a single, unbroken camera shot of the band on a Winnipeg Transit city bus.
On October 2, 2007, Wintersleep released their third full-length album, Welcome to the Night Sky . A limited edition of the record, on vinyl, with alternative artwork, was published by Hand Drawn Dracula . They won the 2008 Juno Award for New Group of the Year .
“Paralyzer” was included in the soundtrack of the 2007 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show
Cancer Bats have performed at the Download Festival in 2007, Groezrock 2007 and at both Reading and Leeds Festivals in 2007 and 2008. In the summer of 2008, the band did an extensive summer and autumn tour with Bullet for My Valentine , Black Tide and Bleeding Through , as…
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Their fifth full-length album, Muertos Vivos , was released on Cobraside November 27, 2007, in the U.S. and was released in Canada on Aquarius Records October 23. They recruited Tyson Maiko as their bassist. The album is Gob’s heaviest and most serious album to date.
Epitaph also re-released the Weakerthans’ first two albums, Fallow and Left and Leaving , in Canada on November 6, 2007.
They also performed at the 2007 NHL Awards Show in Toronto
The album’s first single was “We’re All Dying”. They shot the video for “We’re All Dying”, as well as for their second single “Underground”, on September 4 and 5, 2007, in downtown Vancouver. The album’s final single was “Banshee Song”.