Lullabies to Paralyze was leaked onto the internet in February 2005 and was aired by Triple J radio in Australia on March 3, 2005, as an unsubstantiated ‘World Premiere’. It was then officially released on Tuesday, March 22, 2005, in the US, debuting in the number 5 slot on the…
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By 2005, the band had sold 12 million albums. The band’s third studio album, Seventeen Days , was released on February 8, 2005, and debuted at number 1 on the Billboard 200 and has been certified platinum. It contains five singles, ” Let Me Go “, ” Behind Those Eyes…
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Thomasson left the band in 2005 to reform The Outlaws , and Mark “Sparky” Matejka , formerly of the country music band Hot Apple Pie , joined in 2006 as his replacement.
After performing at WaveAid, Silverchair reunited, and by late 2005 began preparations for their next studio album, Young Modern . Johns had written about 50 songs during the hiatus for a possible solo album or other project but decided to use them for Silverchair. In 2006, after five weeks’ practice,…
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Bassist Markku Lappalainen left Hoobastank following their 2005 Summer Tour,
Motörhead picked up their first Grammy in the awards of 2005 in the Best Metal Performance category for their cover of Metallica ‘s ” Whiplash ” on Metallic Attack: The Ultimate Tribute . “They’ve managed to get the knife in,” Lemmy grumbled. “It was only a mercy fuck – it…
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Five Finger Death Punch was founded in 2005 by former U.P.O. bassist Zoltan Bathory and drummer Jeremy Spencer , Zoltan deriving the band’s name from classic martial arts cinema. Guitarist Zoltan Bathory commented on the band’s name: “The name of the band has to have some kind of effect. It…
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On a 2005 co-headlining tour with Velvet Revolver , Hoobastank received a chilly reception from some audiences, and rumors of a feud between Robb and Velvet Revolver frontman Scott Weiland filled internet message boards. The song “If I Were You” from Every Man for Himself addressed the affair. Robb later…
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Having briefly gone by the name Epiphany, in mid-2005, the band changed their name to Dead Sara as a reference to the Fleetwood Mac song ” Sara ” and its lyric “…said Sara”; the band misheard the line as “dead Sara”. Both Armstrong and Medley have publicly cited Stevie Nicks…
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The 2004 Boxing Day tsunami resulted in the WaveAid fundraising concert held in January 2005; Silverchair performed to help raise funds for aid organisations working in disaster-affected areas. As a result of WaveAid, the band decided to resume working together. Gillies explained the band’s reunion as due to a special…
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