On September 17, 2014, it was announced that Rob Rampy had departed from the band, citing serious injury as the reason. He was then replaced by Brandon Karns, who subsequently left the band shortly thereafter. Karns was then replaced by Walter “Monsta” Ryan. However, Rampy rejoined D.R.I in 2018. In…
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The band recorded their eighth album, Hang , with Bill Stevenson and Jason Livermore at The Blasting Room, Ft Collins, CO. The album was released on October 28, 2014, and debuted at #95 on the Billboard 200 .
On August 27, 2014, Suicidal Tendencies announced that bassist Tim Williams had died. Rawbiz was replaced by Michael Morgan, and two years later by Ra Díaz.
In 2014, the band conducted an anthology tour dubbed the “Past Live” tour, in which they performed all eight studio albums in their entirety over four consecutive shows in several cities.
The band spent 2014 and 2015 touring North America, Europe, and Australia with a variety of acts as both support and a headline act, including The Smith Street Band , Off With Their Heads , Lemuria , Chumped , Taking Back Sunday , mewithoutYou , Pianos Become the Teeth ,…
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In a Reddit AMA on January 28, 2014, Fat Mike revealed the next album theme would be “Divas”. Featuring covers of Barbra Streisand , Christina Aguilera and Lady Gaga , Are We Not Men? We Are Diva! was released on May 13, 2014, on Fat Wreck Chords.
The extensive touring schedule surrounding Endgame took a toll on the band members, and in 2013 they decided to take a year long hiatus. According to Blair: “You’re constantly gone. You don’t feel like you live anywhere”. He also discussed how the other three band members lives had evolved, and…
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Copies were leaked to the press via a Dutch news agency during the 1983 general election campaign. The U.S. State Department and British government believed the tape to be propaganda produced by the KGB (as reported by the San Francisco Chronicle and The Sunday Times ). Although the tape was…
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The Black Market was released on July 15, 2014. In the United States, the album entered at number three on the Billboard 200 and sold 53,000 copies in its first week. It was their fourth consecutive album to debut within the top ten on the Billboard 200, and it spent…
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After Lyons’ recovery the second half of 2014 saw the band appear at Ieperfest Hardcore Festival in Belgium and return to Sweden to headline Stockholms Manglet Festival. In November they played their first shows in Russia before returning to the UK to continue recording sessions for the long overdue second…
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