Canadian punk-rockers Billy Talent teased fans yesterday with a cryptic new website opener. Since 2012's 'Dead Silence' the band have been on the road without a peep about new music or new directions making yesterday's teaser a bit of a surprise. The band's website see's an old TV (which you can control) against a backdrop of peeling wallpaper. The wall beneath the wallpaper reveals images of the 2009 'Billy Talent III' album and the 2003 'Billy Talent' album. Other cracks could open up to reveal images of other album covers, but that's just a guess. Anyway, to the actual exciting bit, what's on the TV. Well. The image is very very similar to that which is on the FooFighters.tv webpage... What could this mean? Maybe a joint tour? Joint production? Joint single? Or maybe it's just coincidence? With the news of Foo Fighters' new album just announced this Monday, it's looking more likely to be coincidence. As exciting as the Foo news is, back to Billy Talent.
By turning on the TV on the wesbite you are presented with a full length video, compiling different videos the band have had over the years, alongside live footage all to the band's single 'Devil On My Shoulder.' With this in mind, now what does the cover image mean? With the date, "08/22/2014" in the corner of the TV and appearing at the end of the video, it would appear the band will be announcing something but best guesses are that a Greatest Hits may be in the pipeline. Maybe even a Greatest Hits tour. Who knows? We have little over a week to wait until we find out so until then, feast your ears on one of my favourite Billy Talent tracks.
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