In 2000, the songs “Rink Rat”, “Third Man In”, “Stick Boy”, and “Danielle”, were featured in the NHL Rock The Rink game for the Sony PlayStation . Also in 2000, John Wright, in his Johnny Hanson character, recorded an instructional video regarding homebrewing beer . Wright also compiled and released…
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With their new lineup finalized, Rise Against began work on their debut studio album , The Unraveling . Recording sessions took place in late 2000, at Sonic Iguana Studios in Lafayette . Wleklinski served as an assistant engineer under producer Mass Giorgini , and later remarked on the grueling workdays:…
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The band soon split after that release, but brothers Rhys Mwyn and Sion Sebon formed a new band, Mangre, in 2000. Mwyn went on to manage the Crai label and work as an agent. He managed Catatonia and more recently Jeb Loy Nichols , which prompted a resurrection of Recordiau…
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In late 2000, after the dissolution of Aus-Rotten , two former members of that band, Dave Trenga and Matt Garabedian, formed Behind Enemy Lines along with Bill Chamberlain (also of The Pist and Caustic Christ ) on guitar, and Matt Sachs, formerly of Devastation on bass. Mary Bielich and Matt…
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Greatest & Latest – This, That-N-The Other Thing a compilation of rerecorded older material and new songs, was released in 2000 on Cleopatra Records , and featured Bolle on bass and Steve Latanation on drums. Latanation as well as Dusty Watson alternately played drums through 2008. In 2006, Perry Giordano…
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Foreign Legion re-formed in 2000, with members from before the 1991 split; M.H. on vocals, Mark (Jolly) Williams on guitar, Andrew Heggie on bass and Ben Stansfield on drums. They released a split album with Major Accident called Cry of the Legion , before their next full-length album What Goes…
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The band’s debut studio album, Swagger , arrived on March 7, 2000, their first of many with SideOneDummy . They joined the Vans Warped Tour for the first time that summer alongside Green Day , Weezer , and The Mighty Mighty Bosstones (whom they continued touring alongside in the fall).
In 2000 Stuka rejoined the band but in 2003 left once again. Los Violadores have regained some popularity with their album Bajo un sol feliz (2006), and then participated in the festival 30 años de Punk , in 2009, with groups such as Cadena Perpetua and 2 Minutos, at Estadio…
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The five-piece signed their first proper record deal with Drive-Thru Records , and released an EP of cover songs from film soundtracks entitled From the Screen to Your Stereo in 2000. Drive-Thru’s relationship with MCA Records ensured that the smaller label’s more popular bands would be picked up by the…
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Over the course of the early 2000s, the band continued to tour and shuffle through members. In late 2001, while touring in Milton, Pennsylvania with the band Submerge, they convinced two of its members—bassist Matthew Scott Taylor and drummer Tony Richard Thaxton—to join the band. Thaxton initially took about a…
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