With their previous contract with Warner Bros. Records having expired in 2011, the band re-signed to Warner Bros. for the United States and to Bella Union in Europe in early 2012.

EMI Records collapsed in 1996, and the band re-signed to Capitol Records, adding bassist Tony Clark in the process.

Though the album Spirit of ' 84 was initially recorded for an audiophile label, Mercury Records re-signed the band ( and gave California a solo deal ) and released the album in 1984.

Although Townsend stated Strapping Young Lad might be the last album, the band re-signed with Century Media Worldwide in March 2004 and announced plans for a new album.

The band were just on the verge of signing a worldwide deal with CBS, when Warners in Australia contacted them and re-signed the band, who then spent much of 1984 recording a new album at John French's ' Fast Forward ' studio in Melbourne ,' The Music Farm ' studio in Byron Bay and also in Los Angeles at George Massenburg's ' The Complex ' studio with Little Feat's keyboard player Billy Payne. The band's second album, Oceania, produced by Billy Payne, was released in April 1985 and reached No. 29.

Due to larger-than-expected album sales, the band was re-signed to Universal and the album was subsequently re-released on Universal.

They were about to be re-signed when Ciambotti was offered a gig in the Bruce Springsteen band, so the group disbanded in 1992 without recording a second album.

* Creation ( band ), a teen musical group, first album 2005

* The Creation ( band ), a British band

The pre-The Beatles band The Quarrymen performed the song during 1956 early live performances along with other Presley songs, Paul McCartney later also made another cover of the song in Chaos and Creation at Abbey Road, performing it with Bill Black's bass.

In January 1988 My Bloody Valentine played a gig with Biff Bang Pow !, a band that featured Creation Records owner Alan McGee as a member.

After seeing the video for " Hate to Say I Told You So " on German TV, Alan McGee ( Oasis, Creation Records ) decided to sign the band to his newly formed Poptones label.

After the band supported The Soup Dragons in 1989, McGee signed them to his Creation Records label.

Mattock had been playing in a Northampton band called ' The Apple Creation ’.

In May 1993, the band heard that a record executive from Creation Records would be scouting for talent at King Tut's in Glasgow.

The band eventually secured the opening slot and played a four-song set that impressed Creation founder Alan McGee.

Polish death metal band Decapitated covered the song " Mandatory Suicide " on their first full-length album Winds of Creation.

The heavy metal band Angelica introduced vocalist Rob Rock, who also achieved initial fame as the vocalist for guitar virtuoso Chris Impellitteri's band Impellitteri during the 1980s and 1990s and then went solo with his Rage of Creation album.

Other albums released by the reformed band were remastered versions of Epicus Doomicus Metallicus, Nightfall, Ancient Dreams, and Tales of Creation.

The name came from the 1960s band The Creation, whom McGee greatly admired.

McGee, Green and Foster were also in the band Biff Bang Pow !, which was also the title of a The Creation song.

Dub Syndicate is a dub band, formed by Adrian Sherwood, and it became a showcase for Adrian Sherwood's collaboration with Style Scott, former ace drummer with the Roots Radics and Creation Rebel.

A new drummer, the American David Kinkade, who has worked with Arsis and Malevolent Creation has joined the band since.

In 2007, the band participated in the Domination Tour with Rotting Christ, Incantation and Malevolent Creation.

In 1983 he co-founded Creation Records ( named after cult 1960s band The Creation ) with Dick Green and Joe Foster.

At the point it seemed Creation would collapse into receivership, the recently signed Manchester band Oasis began selling albums in huge quantities, as they epitomised the cultural Britpop movement of the mid-1990s.

Oasis went on to sell nearly 54 million records by 2008, Creation continued issuing acclaimed albums by other artists, none of which came near the success of the Manchester band.

* Whirlpool ( band ), a 1990s British band signed to Creation Records and featuring Gem Archer

Nonetheless, he and his band continued to be a popular touring act, enjoying a career resurgence in the late 1960s with the Rock and roll revival movement and the signing of a lucrative record deal with the European Sonet Records label.

One year later, the band debuted their second single, " Dicknail " through Sub Pop Records.

They secured a record contract with Capitol Records, but Hooper left the band before the remaining trio moved to Los Angeles to record their debut album.

Capitol Records initially failed to see the band's potential and gave them only low key promotion, forcing the band to play at small venues to try and gain attention.

He formed the band Largest Living Things, which was the name rejected by Capitol Records in favour of Crowded House.

Around the same time, East Bay Ray had tried to pressure the rest of the band to sign to the major record label Polydor Records ; Biafra stated that he was prepared to leave the group if the rest of the band wanted to sign to the label, though East Bay Ray asserts that he recommended against signing with Polydor.

The band has released two live albums of archival performances on Manifesto Records: Mutiny on the Bay, compiled from various live shows including a recording from their last show with Biafra in 1986, and Live at the Deaf Club, a recording of a 1979 performance at the Deaf Club in San Francisco which was greeted with more enthusiasm.

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

Devo caught the attention of David Bowie and Iggy Pop, who championed the band and enabled Devo to secure a recording contract with Warner Bros. Records.

The band released Total Devo in 1988 on Enigma Records.

Although Parsons was an equal contributor to the band, he was not regarded as a full member of The Byrds by the band's record label, Columbia Records.

He played in a band called Carp, which released one album on Epic Records in 1969.

Also during the 1920s, an old-time music band known as the Hill Billies featuring Al Hopkins and Fiddlin ' Charlie Bowman, achieved acclaim as recording artists for Columbia Records.

In early 1960, Brown's band recorded the top ten R & B hit, "( Do the ) Mashed Potatoes " on Dade Records, owned by Henry Stone, under the pseudonym " Nat Kendrick & The Swans " because Brown's label refused to release it.

That year, Brown also launched, under King auspices, Try Me Records, releasing records off singers such as Tammy Montgomery, Johnny & Bill and the Poets, the latter group confirmed to be that of Brown's backing band.

The band, with which she sang and played bass guitar ( as well as some guitar and piano ), was signed to North Carolina's Mammoth Records and received a fair amount of airplay on college radio through the early 1990s.

* Janus, a British band based in Germany, that released an album called Gravedigger on Harvest Records in 1972

Forever Changes is the third album by American rock band Love, released by Elektra Records in November 1967.

Grant secured an advance deal of $ 200, 000 from Atlantic Records in November 1968, which was then one of biggest deals of its kind for a new band.

In 1988 John Kalodner, then-A & R executive of Geffen Records, remarked that " In my opinion, next to the Beatles they're the most influential band in history.

After failing to catch Warner Bros. Records on three previous reviews, Jeff Blue, now the vice president of Warner Bros. Records, helped the band sign a deal with the company in 1999.

The band spent the first few months of 2004 touring around the world, first with the third Projekt Revolution tour, and later several European concerts. At the same time, the band's relationship with Warner Bros. Records was deteriorating rapidly on account of several trust and financial issues.

The band soon left Elektra and created their own label, Mötley Records.