On 18 March 2005 Wayne Southworth (lead singer) was found dead in his home by a friend. The cause of death was an epileptic seizure.
In March 2005, Brewer was fired from the band after a physical altercation on stage with Russo during a performance at the House of Blues in Anaheim, California . Describing Brewer as irreplaceable, Russo and the other band members chose not to replace him and continued on as a 4-piece.…
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Kingwood , released in March 2005, marked the band’s return to a faster and more traditional punk rock sound, collaborating it with their recently founded rock sound, and completed a world tour in follow-up of the album. The album debuted at No. 2 in the Swedish chart.
By the end of March 2005, the band started touring, performing at about thirty concerts, including the performances at the Split Gripe arena and the concerts at NS Time club. In 2006, the band appeared in the Jovan Đerić documentary about Novi Sad punk rock scene, Bilo jednom… . During…
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The group embarked on a tour of Europe and the UK in March with support from The Explosion .
The band suffered a setback, however, when Wentz had an emotional breakdown in February 2005, culminating in a suicide attempt. He had withdrawn from the rest of the group, with his condition only apparent through his lyrics, and had also become obsessed with the recent Indian tsunami and his own…
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In February 2005, the band appeared at MTV Asia’s tsunami-relief event for the tsunami in Southeast Asia , before touring Australia.
In February 2005, a press statement announced the band’s “indefinite hiatus”; the band had broken up after members’ arguments regarding their future and recording process. DeLonge felt increasingly conflicted both about his creative freedom within the group and the toll touring was taking on his family life. He expressed his…
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On January 17, 2005, Busch’n died from stomach cancer at age 35.
“I Just Wanna Live” was released as a CD single in Australia on January 17, 2005, with live versions of “S.O.S.” and “The World Is Black” as B-sides.