In May 2009, Linkin Park announced they were working on a fourth studio album, which was planned to be released in 2010. Shinoda told IGN that the new album would be ‘ genre-busting ,’ while building off of elements in Minutes to Midnight . He also mentioned that the album…
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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.
The band appeared on American Idol in May 2009, performing “Detroit Rock City” and “Rock and Roll All Nite” with Adam Lambert .
On May 1, it was announced that Sugizo officially joined X Japan as lead guitarist.
released on 28 April
but dropped off the tour a week before it was finished following a serious injury Alexi sustained after falling from the top bunk of his tour bus on 26 April 2009, after the show in Palladium Ballroom, Dallas, Texas.
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