Billy Talent II

Occupation

• Guitar: Ian D' Sa
• Vocals: Benjamin Kowalewicz
• E -Bass: Jonathan Gallant
• Drums: Aaron Solowoniuk

Billy Talent II is the third studio album by the Canadian rock band Billy Talent. It was released on 27 June 2006. It's been their most successful album, reaching in Germany and Canada, the top of the album charts.

Formation

The first single Devil in a Midnight Mass was published on 12 June 2006.

The song Red Flag is already known from the video games Burnout Revenge, Burnout Legends, SSX on Tour and NHL 06. In addition, a demo version on the compilation Black by Popular Demand by Atlantic Records to find.

Surrender was on Valentine's Day 2006 exclusively as a download on the band's website. In an interview with MuchMusic, the band revealed that this is a love song. Radio recordings of Surrender, Covered in Cowardice, This Suffering and Worker Bees gave it a few weeks ago to find on the internet.

There were already to be found in BitTorrent network The complete album as of 19 June 2006. On June 23, could be heard on their official MySpace page, the entire album. However, the title could not turn forward or back, but had to hear it from beginning to end.

The accompanying lyrics were illustrated by Henry Fong.

Title list

Singles

• Red Flag ( 15 September 2006)
• Surrender ( 15 June 2007)
• This Suffering (26 November 2007)

Success

Billy Talent achieved with their second studio album, Billy Talent II next to successes in their home country Canada also some success in Germany.

In Canada, the album sold over 200,000 copies and was there now twice awarded the platinum record. Besides reached Billy Talent II there number one on the charts. In Germany, the album debuted at # 1 on the charts and stayed in the chart rankings 66 weeks long. Having had sold over 300,000 copies in Germany, the album was awarded three times with gold. In addition, the album was also in Austria honored again with the platinum record, but had to only a hurdle of 30,000 units sold due to country technical differences be mastered. Again a top chart position was achieved and Billy Talent II held in Austria 84 weeks in the charts.

In the English-speaking world, the success was in a rather more even proportions. Billy Talent II arrived in the United States, for example, only ranked 134 on the Billboard Hot 200