On April 22, 2018, the official VAST shop website announced the track listing for Black Magic , as well as two other releases: a limited edition EP for the song “She Is Murder,” along with a follow-up to the Jon Crosby solo release Posthumous Serenade titled “More Posthumous Serenades”.
and the third and final EP of the trilogy to follow in 2018.
In early 2018, original member Brian Liesegang returned to Filter after 21 years and started working with Patrick on the band’s 8th studio album. The latter mentioned that “Brian and I are making the official follow-up to Short Bus (maybe), called Re-Bus.” Liesegang offered an official statement regarding the project:
November 2017 also saw the release of Posthumous Serenade , a two-part collection of twenty acoustic covers done by Crosby (solo) as a tribute to some of his favorite musicians who have died. Artists include Joy Division, Prince and Johnny Cash, among many others.
In November 2017, Swedish independent label Woah Dad! acquired the albums that Tankian recorded for Reprise Records .
Two days later, Manson announced he had “decided to part ways” with bassist Twiggy, after a rape allegation was made against Twiggy by his former girlfriend, Jack Off Jill vocalist Jessicka ; for the rest of the tour, Juan Alderete (formerly of Racer X and The Mars Volta ) joined.
The band’s founding guitarist, Daisy Berkowitz, died on October 22, 2017, at the age of 49;
However, in October 2017 he stated that after his current commitments with Big Dumb Face , Queen Kwong and his next solo album, he aimed to release a new Black Light Burns album in June 2018, which he stated is “because [he] said [he’d] never do that again”.
A second single, ” Kill4Me “, was released on September 20.
Their score, which was released on September 15, 2017, included original compositions, and it also includes reworked pieces from other Nine Inch Nails songs and their award-winning scores for The Social Network and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo .