and was released widely on February 15.
A free download of a new track called “Begging For Mercy” was released on the band’s website on 14 February 2010 as part of a Twitter promotion.
The concert, dubbed “The Rage Factor”, gave away all the tickets by free photo registration to prevent touting over the weekend of the February 13–14
“Shattering the Skies Above” was also released exclusively to their fanclub (TriviumWorld) on February 12, 2010,
On February 4, 2010, the band announced that Travis had indeed officially left the band and fill-in drummer, ex-drum tech, Nick Augusto, was replacing him.
Soon afterwards, Benante said that Bush had rejoined the band. In February 2010, Anthrax performed five shows as part of Soundwave in Australia. After the Australian shows, Bush said the band intended to re-record the vocals of several tracks from the upcoming album.
In February 2010, Killswitch Engage announced that vocalist Howard Jones would not be performing with Killswitch Engage during their winter tour with The Devil Wears Prada and Dark Tranquillity ; during the time, All That Remains vocalist Philip Labonte was substituting for Jones until he could return.
They were also booked as a co-headliner for Australia’s Soundwave Festival in February 2010.
The album was released on 1 February 2010 in Europe.
In February, Yoshiki confirmed that X Japan would be performing at Lollapalooza in August.