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JOB FOR A COWBOY SKYROCKETS TO #42 ON BILLBOARD CHART WITH NEW ALBUM “RUINATION” Award-winning Glendale, AZ heavy music powerhouse JOB FOR A COWBOY lands at #42 on the Billboard Top 200 Chart this week with its sophomore album, Ruination. The record dropped on July 7 in North American via Metal Blade Records and shifted nearly 11,000 units in just its first week of release. Additionally, Ruination debuted at #4 on Billboard’s Top Independent Albums Chart and at #7 on Billboard’s Hard Music Albums Chart. The album also debuted at #50 on Canada’s Nielsen SoundScan Charts, #5 on its Independent Albums Chart and at #8 on the Canadian Hard Music Albums Chart. The follow up to JOB FOR A COWBOY's 2007 debut, Genesis (the highest charting metal debut to crack Billboard's Top 200 since Slipknot's 1999 self-titled album), Ruination has met to scads of critical acclaim in the weeks leading up to its release. The album’s first week charting position represents one of the highest Billboard debuts ever for a band representing the “death metal” subgenre. JOB FOR A COWBOY’s Ruination is a concentrated hotbed of astounding dexterity, scorching attack, sleek arrangement and thundering musical muscle. Infectious riffs, keen dynamics and the assertive vocals of rising star front man Jonny Davy combine to produce an album that is at once powerful, expressive, confident and commanding. The album features ten tracks of state-of-the-art heavy metal music. The New York Times referred to JOB FOR A COWBOY’s sound as “brute-force”, a commendatory claim that Ruination unquestionably validates. JOB FOR A COWBOY is currently touring North America with Slayer as part of the 2009 “ROCKSTAR Energy Mayhem Festival”. The 27-date North American march is slated to run through August 15 in Dallas, TX. In the two years since the release of the band’s full length debut, JOB FOR A COWBOY (JFAC) has progressed from “the band with the different name” to one of the leading lights for heavy music in the 21st century. The quintet has toured the world to out-and-out acclaim, highlighted by main stage appearances at distinguished music jubilees such as the UK’s Download Festival and Germany’s Wacken Open Air. JOB FOR A COWBOY ROCKSTAR ENERGY DRINK MAYHEM FESTIVAL Tour w/ Slayer, Marilyn Manson, Bullet For My Valentine, Trivium, All That Remains, God Forbid, Cannibal Corpse, Behemoth, The Black Dahlia Murder, Whitechapel 07/16 Las Vegas, NV House Of Blues not part of tour w/ Killswitch Engage, All That Remains, Whitechapel 07/17 Phoenix, AZ Cricket Wireless Pavilion 07/18 Albuquerque, NM Journal Pavilion 07/19 Denver, CO Fiddler's Green Amphitheater 07/21 Kansas City, KS Capitol Federal Park at Sandstone 07/22 St. Louis, MO Verizon Wireless Amphitheater 07/23 Nashville, TN Rocketown not part of tour 07/24 Atlanta, GA Lakewood Amphitheater 07/25 Indianapolis, IN Verizon Wireless Music Centre 07/26 Chicago, IL First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre 07/27 Grand Rapids, MI Orbit Room not part of tour w/ Killswitch Engage, Whitechapel 07/29 Scranton, PA Toyota Pavilion at Montage Mountain 07/31 Cleveland, OH Blossom Music Center 08/01 Pittsburgh, PA Post Gazette Pavilion 08/02 Detroit, MI DTE Energy Music Theatre 08/04 Boston, MA Comcast Center 08/05 Sayreville, NJ Starland Ballroom not part of tour w/ Killswitch Engage, Whitechapel 08/06 Virginia Beach, VA Verizon Wireless Virginia Beach Amphitheater 08/07 Camden, NJ Susquehanna Bank Center 08/08 Hartford, CT Comcast Theatre 08/09 Washington, DC Nissan Pavilion 08/11 Tampa, FL Ford Amphitheatre 08/12 West Palm Beach, FL Cruzan Amphitheater 08/14 San Antonio, TX AT&T Center 08/15 Dallas, TX Superpages.com Center http://www.myspace.com/jobforacowboy |