DECEMBER 2007

THE BIRTHDAY MASSACRE

The Birthday Massacre is a rock band, based in Toronto, Canada. The band was officially formed in 1999, known at that time as Imagica. Their music is a blend between darkwave and synth rock.
The group originated in London, Ontario, in 2001 they moved from London to Toronto to start recording. There they recorded their limited edition demo with five songs and shortly thereafter adopted the name The Birthday Massacre.
In July of 2002, The Birthday Massacre independently released a limited edition CD entitled "Nothing and Nowhere." On July 20, 2004, The Birthday Massacre released a nine song EP entitled "Violet," and at the end of the year, re-released "Nothing and Nowhere" with new sleeve artwork. In the fall of 2004, the band was signed to Repo Records in Germany, and released a remastered and expanded version of "Violet" in Europe, including updated album art in a Digipack case.
In 2005 the band signed to Metropolis Records and released "Violet" in the USA, Canada, United Kingdom, and most of South America. In August, the band began a series of international tours taking them to Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Belgium. Also in August, a DVD consisting of a video for the song "Blue" was released. It also included behind-the-scenes footage, interviews, a studio performance of "Nevermind," as well as live performances of "Violet" and "Video Kid."
In early 2006, the Birthday Massacre toured North America, playing across Canada, the United States and Mexico on their "Broken Minds" tour. They also played Europe in the summer of 2006.
In June 2007, it was announced that the band was working on a new record with Canadian producer/engineer Dave "Rave" Ogilvie (producer of many industrial acts such as Skinny Puppy). On September 11th, 2007 the band released "Walking With Strangers" in North America, entering at #10 on the Billboard "Top Heatseekers" chart for September 29th.The album was released in Europe on September 21st and in the UK on 22nd October.

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