In late 2005, Brand New started recording their third album in Oxford, Mississippi with producer Dennis Herring , but later dropped him in favor of Mike Sapone with whom they had worked on their first album.
At the beginning of 2005, the band was featured on the first Taste of Chaos tour along with the Used and Killswitch Engage .
In 2005 John Butler and co-founder Danielle Caruana (his wife) inaugurated the JB Seed grant program. “The Seed aims to help Australian artists from any background, creating art and music across any genre, to establish themselves as self-sustained, professional artists.” Caruana also plays independent music, she plays under the name…
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During the summer of 2005, the band played the Vans Warped Tour for the first time and followed that with a European and Japanese tour. After the Greatest Hits world tour, the band took a break from writing, recording, and touring. During the hiatus, Willard was recruited by Tom DeLonge…
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Having briefly gone by the name Epiphany, in mid-2005, the band changed their name to Dead Sara as a reference to the Fleetwood Mac song ” Sara ” and its lyric “…said Sara”; the band misheard the line as “dead Sara”. Both Armstrong and Medley have publicly cited Stevie Nicks…
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In 2005, the album ranked 420 in Rock Hard magazine’s book The 500 Greatest Rock & Metal Albums of All Time .
and in 2005 the song was nominated for Best Metal Performance for the 47th Grammy Awards .
Sledge played with International Orange until the group disbanded in 2005. He later became the bass player in the three-piece Chapel Hill band Surrender Human, with Matt McMichaels from the Mayflies USA .
In 2005, the band performed at Lollapalooza and Vegoose . Between Primus shows, Claypool created a new solo project called Les Claypool’s Fancy Band which, like other projects, occasionally used Primus songs.
Lyxzén also runs Ny Våg , an independent punk record label he co-founded with former Refused bassist Inge Johansson , and produced the 2005 self-titled album by label signee Regulations. He also co-founded the now-defunct labels Desperate Fight Records and Umeå Hardcore Records.