The band made their U.S. debut on September 16, 2006, at the Modern Drummer Drum Festival.
In January 2006, Copeland premiered his film about the Police called Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out at the Sundance Film Festival .
Also in 2005, Copeland started Gizmodrome , a new project with avant-garde guitarist David Fiuczynski , multi-instrumentalist Vittorio Cosma , singer Raiz and bassist Max Gazzè .
In 2005, Copeland released “Orchestralli”, a live recording of chamber ensemble music which he had composed during a short tour of Italy in 2002.
In 2002, Copeland was hired by Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger of the Doors to play with them for a new album and tour, but the tour was cut short.
Universal Interactive had different developers handle the fourth title, Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly (2002), which would be Copeland’s last outing with the series.
This period also saw Copeland compose the soundtrack for Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare (2001), his only video game soundtrack outside of the Spyro franchise to date.
Spyro: Year of the Dragon (2000).
In 2000, he combined with Les Claypool of Primus (with whom he produced a track on the Primus album Antipop ) and Trey Anastasio of Phish to create the band Oysterhead .
That same year, he was approached by director Adam Collis to assemble the score for the film Sunset Strip .