On 29 July 2009 Blindside announced that they were going to be making a new album, to be produced by Howard Benson .
On 21 July 2009, bass guitarist and former member of Force, Marcel Jacob, committed suicide. He was 45 years old.
They wrote and released a single dedicated to their hometown football club Örebro SK titled “Örebro” in 2009. It was played in the clubs’ stadium, Eyravallen for the first time on 11 May 2009 in the home game against Hammarby Fotboll .
On 1 May 2009 it was announced that Blindside would be performing at a free showcase
The band were thought to be writing and recording songs for their seventh album while simultaneously preparing to release the twenty-track compilation Girlfriend (Love Stories A-E) in 2008; however, in April 2009, they announced they had split, with Wiksten pursuing a solo career.
In 2008, Malmsteen was a special guest on the VH1 Classic show That Metal Show . On 10 March 2009, Malmsteen’s label Rising Force released Angels of Love , an all-instrumental album, which featured acoustic arrangements of some of his best-known ballads. Malmsteen released a compilation album titled High Impact…
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In 2009 the band stopped its concert-activities for that year with a tour in Greece , before they wrote and recorded the 5-Song- EP , which was released in the same year on Black Star Foundation Records. In early 2010 they started a headliner tour, which led through countries such…
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The band’s album Veil of Ignorance , released in 2009, was the last released on Burning Heart Record. It placed on the Swedish charts and was nominated for a Swedish Grammy Award. Many of the songs on this album were written by Hagman.
In 2009, the band recorded a new EP with new versions of their popular single “Heavy Christmas” alongside 3 other songs. Former lead vocalist Jocke Lundholm returned for this recording and the album also featured Björn Höglund of folk rock band Hoven Droven . The album was released under the…
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On 23 December 2008, Kent released a new song, “På drift?”. “Kent wishes you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year by offering a brand new song for free,” the band writes on their website (kent.nu). It was made available for download on their official website for a…
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