The band had begun composing new material and booked studio time in early 2010 with Kevin Shirley producing, and The Final Frontier was announced on 4 March and featured three singles “The Final Frontier”, “El Dorado” and “Coming Home”, as well as epic, progressive opuses “Isle of Avalon”, “The Talisman”…
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The band went through numerous line up changes, and as a three piece of Lyons, Bryson and Paluskiewicz, had recorded most of the material for a second album (provisionally entitled Welcome to the New Dark Ages ), but it was never completed. Darker and heavier than their debut, some tracks…
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On 26 December 2009, Helloween released the Unarmed – Best of 25th Anniversary album in Japan.
The campaign was ultimately successful, and “Killing in the Name” became the number-one single in the UK for Christmas 2009.
On the morning of December 17, Rage Against the Machine played a slightly censored version of “Killing in the Name” live on BBC Radio 5 Live , but four repeats of ‘Fuck you I won’t do what you tell me’ were aired before the song was pulled.
The band parted ways with Interscope on December 3.
In December 2009, Merauder toured around Europe with Entombed and Devious . Their last show was at Eindhoven ‘s Metal Meeting, where they shared the stage with Satyricon , Nile and Legion of the Damned .
By mid-2009, Leatherwolf were said to be writing for a new studio album and shared a bill with Anthrax , Saxon , Overkill , Anvil , and Metal Church at the third annual Rocklahoma festival on July 9, 2009. Michael Olivieri’s solo album, Goodbye Rain , was released in December…
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and finished it in December.
In December 2009, a campaign was launched on Facebook by Jon Morter and his wife Tracy, in order to stop, most notably, The X Factor hits from becoming almost automatic Christmas number ones on the UK Singles Chart.