On August 11 and 12, 2012, they played the Heavy MTL
The resulting album, Dead End Kings was released in August in Europe and North America
Plans to record a follow-up to Era Vulgaris had been mentioned since 2008, but recording would not begin until August 2012. In March 2011, Homme stated, “Doing the rehearsals for the first record is really defining the new one. It’s been turning the new record into something else. What we…
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On 30 July, the band announced they had left their label and signed with RCA , who would release their fourth album in 2013.
The Tour started on July 20
On 16 July 2012 the band’s co-founding member and former organ player, Jon Lord, died in London, aged 71.
A third London date was scheduled for 14 July.
From July 13 to August 28, 2012, Five Finger Death Punch took part in Metal Hammer ‘s “Trespass America Festival” with support from Battlecross , God Forbid , Emmure , Pop Evil , Trivium and Killswitch Engage .
In a June 28 guest appearance on the movie review podcast/website “CinemaJaw,” Lucas claimed that the next album would be out before the upcoming 2012 elections—mainly because so much of the album’s content deals with it directly—expecting it to be released by February 2012. In the same interview, Lucas also…
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Queen + Adam Lambert played two shows at the Hammersmith Apollo , London on 11 and 12 July 2012. Both shows sold out within 24 hours of tickets going on sale.