Billy Talent

Billy Talent – Live at Festhalle Frankfurt (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:35:08 minutes | 2,01 GB | Genre: Punk Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © WM Canada

Billy Talent received various gold and platinum awards in recent years and with their last album “Crisis Of Faith”, which was released in September 2021, they directly stormed number 1 in the German charts. Now the punk rock icons release their live album “Live At Festhalle Frankfurt”, which was recorded at a legendary concert in November 2022.

The 2CD will be released on 16.06. and includes 21 tracks that reflect the entire back catalog of the band. Just in time for the release, the band will perform at the Hurrican and Southside Festival and will again convince their fans of their live qualities there.

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Billy Talent – Afraid of Heights (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 49:52 minutes | 1,05 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Music Canada

Since the release of their self-titled debut in 2003, Billy Talent have cemented themselves as a generation-defining rock band. Boasting nearly one million albums sold in Canada alone and nearly 3 million albums sold internationally, the band has seen multi-platinum certifications for their albums Billy Talent I and II and III, and platinum status for the latest studio album Dead Silence. The band has enjoyed tremendous success on rock radio.
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Billy Talent – Crisis of Faith (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 36:45 minutes | 836 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner

One of the best things about Billy Talent is and always has been their reliability. That might sound a bit hollow—after all, the Foo Fighters are reliable, and they’re the poster boys for rock’s middle of the road—but the benefit of a high floor and ceiling has always worked in Billy Talent’s favour. Even on their ‘weaker’ albums (and blow those quotation marks to an enormous scale at that), they’ve always been a profoundly vibrant and likable band, the sort of punk that can wear its bite and its big heart with equal prominence. The implicit parallels to Rise Against have always been there in a parlance for ‘radio-rock’ accessibility that pairs with their punk ethos rather than working against it, but Billy Talent feel more at home in that environment overall. If anything, it’s refreshing to see them lean into so greatly with Crisis Of Faith, juggling an advanced longevity that fits the mainstream rock rubric with unshakable earnestness and the quality of just being the most enjoyable band around, all done pretty much masterfully. But even that’s ignoring the vicegrip that Billy Talent continue to have on all-around terrific composition and creative impulse; ‘radio-rock’ bands aren’t opening their albums with Forgiveness, a seven-minute prog-pop banger that sinks into a jazzed-up sax line in its second act. Even on the most fundamental level though, Billy Talent are simply leagues ahead of the competition within this more straightforward lane. Hanging Out With All The Wrong People will be the most instantly catchy song to come out this year, that can basically be locked in now, but there’s nothing close to approach a dud on here, no matter which way you slice it. That generally comes from how the band’s effortless lyrical metre still hasn’t lost its sheen, on that track but also notably on the likes of Reckless Paradise and End Of Me, as a means of forming that momentum and tempo that’s so deeply embedded in every song here.
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