KMFDM’s sixteenth studio album, Blitz , released in March 2009, showcased further collaboration with Skold, but less input from the band members not living in Germany.
Shuck and Derakh released their first album as Julien-K, titled Death to Analog , in March 2009. In the same year, they also released an album with Chester Bennington of Linkin Park under the name Dead by Sunrise .
In February 2009, Reznor posted his thoughts about the future of Nine Inch Nails on his official website, stating that “I’ve been thinking for some time now it’s time to make NIN disappear for a while.”
On January 7, 2009, Reznor uploaded unedited HD-quality footage from three shows as a download of over 400 GB via BitTorrent . In an immediate response, a fan organization known as This One Is On Us quickly downloaded the data and had begun to assemble the footage alongside its own…
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The album’s final song, “15”, was completed on Manson’s January 5 birthday – hence the name.
, and formed a project with Maandig and Atticus Ross dubbed How to Destroy Angels .
January 2009 saw the release of the single ” Galaxy “, with the band’s sixteenth studio album, Memento Mori , following on February 18. The album continues to explore the sound of “straight rock”, and Sakurai said that while the focus of his previous lyrics had been about death, for…
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In 2009 Reznor married Mariqueen Maandig
Richard Patrick has stated on the Filter website that he has been recording songs for movies recently. Filter covered the song ” Happy Together ” by The Turtles for the soundtrack to the movie The Stepfather (2009). The song features ambient sound with alternative metal. It was used in a…
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Through the end of 2009 and into 2010, Filter released a series of fourteen studio updates chronicling the progress made on the album. Each update touched on a certain part of the album process, such as “recording guitar parts” or “mixing the album”. The last studio updates confirmed that the…
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