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Billy Talent
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Billy Talent singer Ben Kowalewicz has been front and centre in one of the greatest Canadian rock n roll success stories of the post-millennial era. But today, with the release of the long-lived Toronto quartets third album looming large on the horizon and the final master of "Billy Talent III" still sitting in an unopened FedEx envelope delivered just hours before to his home, the normally hyperactive front man is betraying neither cockiness nor complacency as he reclines in the bands cramped east-side rehearsal space and candidly assesses what might await the group in the summer of 2009.
Go back and listen to the chorus of "Try Honesty," the monster single that broke Billy Talent and its eponymous debut album wide to the tune of triple-platinum sales in Canada back in 2003, and youll remind yourself instantly that this band had the chops on delivery to stick around much longer than the mall-ready pop-punk fetish with which it was in some quarters initially, mistakenly associated. Instant chart success can be a bitch, though, and it was only after Billy Talent demonstrated its lasting mettle in the wake of 2006s "Billy Talent II" with three more platinum sales awards, a sold-out show at Torontos 20,000-seat Air Canada Centre and, most unexpectedly, a No. 1 debut in Germany to match the one already notched at home that most reasonable folks from these parts finally woke up to the fact that theyd been sleeping on a real deal in their midst.
Billy Talent is past all that, for the most part. Kowalewicz, guitarist Ian DSa, bassist Jon Gallant and drummer Aaron Solowoniuk have been slogging away together for more than 15 years now and, consequently, have nothing to prove from a paying your dues standpoint. It would be nice nonetheless if the scorching "Billy Talent III" decisively hammered home to both the fans and the doubters what a shit-hot, world-dominating hard-rock band has grown out of these four former Mississauga teenagers shared high-school dreams of well growing into a shit-hot, world-dominating hard-rock band.
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