In May 2009, Five Finger Death Punch announced their second studio album, War Is the Answer .
In May 2009, singer Scott Hammons decided to pursue a solo career so he decided to leave the band and was replaced with former Adler’s Appetite vocalist Sheldon Tarsha , with whom the band played at Rocklahoma and opened for Queensrÿche in 2010. Previous plans to record new songs—possibly for…
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In May, Megadeth finished recording its twelfth album, Endgame . The release date for Endgame was announced on the Megadeth official website, and Metal Hammer was the first to review the album track-by-track.
released on 28 April
April 14 in Peru
On April 14, the band announced the name of their album as Killswitch Engage , the second time the band has self-titled an album.
A heavily censored version of the profanity-laced track – re-titled to “Arma … geddon” – was serviced to radio from April 13, and peaked at number thirty-seven on Billboard’ s Mainstream Rock chart, becoming their lowest-peaking single in the process.
April 11 in Colombia
April 7 and 8 in Brazil
On April 5, the band played their first show without Cheng since 1998 at the Bamboozle Left festival in Irvine, California .