The band has been playing new songs from This Will Be the Death of Us live. In support of the upcoming album, they toured Australia with All Time Low and Stealing O'Neal, and are set to tour the United States throughout July and August with Four Year Strong, Polar Bear Club, The Swellers and Fireworks. Their second record, This Will Be the Death of Us, was released through Epitaph Records on 21 July 2009 and was produced by Mike Green ( Paramore, The Matches). On May 1 2009, the band performed as Set Your Grohls, performing covers of Nirvana and Foo Fighters songs. They were the main support to New Found Glory on the Not Without a Fight tour in early 2009. They supported New Found Glory on the UK Easy Core tour later in the year. Vocalist Matt Wilson later hinted that their next release may be self-released, saying, "The truth is we have many options for our next record and self-releasing is one of the best and a very likely option." In March 2009, it was announced that Epitaph Records had signed the band. It has also been reported that the band got their manager to buy out their contract for $150,000. Set Your Goals reached a buy-out agreement with Eulogy Recordings in August 2008 at an estimated $125,000.
Record label issues and This Will Be the Death of Us They played the entire 2008 Vans Warped Tour on the Smartpunk Stage. Set Your Goals released a song entitled "The Fallen" through the social networking sites Trig and MySpace, and the flash and audio website Newgrounds. In the Spring of 2008 they played on the Bamboozle Roadshow with Saves the Day, Armor for Sleep, Valencia and Metro Station. They also covered Lil Jon's "Put Yo Hood Up" for the Fearless Records compilation Punk Goes Crunk, released in April 2008. Set Your Goals released an acoustic version of their track "Echoes" for the Punk Goes Acoustic 2 compilation on Fearless Records in 2007. In the Spring of 2007, they were support on Anti-Flag's headlining tour alongside Alexisonfire and Big D and the Kids Table.
Their second release on Eulogy was their debut studio album, entitled Mutiny!, which was released in July 2006. After "touring off of that alone for almost 2 years", they signed with Eulogy Recordings and re-released the EP under the name Reset in April 2006. The band embarked on some of their early tours with The Warriors, as the word circulated about the EP they were approached by a number of labels. History Formation and first releases (2004-2007) įorming in 2004, Set Your Goals released their first self-titled EP through Straight on Records in May 2004. 1.2 Record label issues and This Will Be the Death of Us.
0 kommentar(er)
