BILLY TALENT II

The band's second album was mostly recorded at The Warehouse Studio in Vancouver B.C., again working closely with good friends Gavin Brown and Chris Lord-Alge. This time however Ian D'Sa got a chance to try his hand at producing. The band also recorded cover songs of John Lennon's "Cold Turkey" and the Buzzcocks "Ever Fallen in Love?" during these sessions.

Beginning in the fall of 2005, songs from the new album were purposely leaked by the band to gain publicity. A demo of "Red Flag" circulated across the internet, even though it had already appeared on the soundtracks to Burnout Revenge, Burnout Legends, SSX On Tour and EA Sports' NHL 06, and on the Atlantic Records compilation Black by Popular Demand. "Devil In A Midnight Mass" and "Surrender" were available for download on the official website exclusively on Christmas Day, 2005 and Valentine's Day, 2006, respectively.

"Devil In A Midnight Mass" was the first single for the album, officially released on April 20, 2006. The final version of "Devil In A Midnight Mass" was made available online through the band's Myspace, as part of it's official single release. "Red Flag" was the second single. A video for it was shot on July 21, 2006, in Los Angeles, California.

On June 23, 2006, all of the tracks were officially released onto the band's MySpace as a listing preview for the fans, and four days after the album being leaked onto BitTorrent. The next day, ten of the songs were removed, leaving "This Suffering", "Devil In A Midnight Mass", "Red Flag" and one of the songs from their self-titled album.

The album hit the shelves on June 27, 2006. It fared very well in Canada in its debut week, landing in at number 1 on the Canadian charts with 48,000 copies sold the first week. However the success didn't duplicate itself in the U.S., where the disk came in at #134, selling only 7,231 units in week 1.



The day after it's debut, the band performed a Intimate & Interactive outdoor concert on MuchMusic in the CHUM-City Building parking lot in Toronto, Ontario. They were also interviewed by Much VJ Devon Soltendieck, and asked questions from viewers via telephone, e-mail, and videophone.

The music video for their third single, "Fallen Leaves", was shot on the first two days of November 2006, in Los Angeles, CA. It was first played in Canada on Much on Demand on November 27th, 2006, and worldwide the following week.

The band performed a live session for Mike Davies on BBC Radio 1's The Lockup on September 12th, playing the tracks "Red Flag", "Devil In A Midnight Mass" and "This Suffering".

During the band's most recent UK tour, Ben was forced to return to Canada for family related reasons. The band had to miss their Southampton show in Ben's absence. The whole band returned the following month to play the show. Halfway through the performance, Ben apologised to the crowd for his absence the previous month, which was followed by a heart warming round of applause from the crowd.

On November 22nd, the band made its American premiere on the Late Night with Conan O'Brien show, performing "Red Flag."

On the 12th January 2007 the music video for Fallen Leaves was made available to watch in the UK on the Rock channels Kerrang TV, Scuzz and MTV 2.

On Jaunary 18th, the band started their first Canadian arena tour with the bands Rise Against, Anti-Flag, and Moneen in Victoria, which will go through the provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Quebec City and ending off Febuary 8 in London,Ontario.