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There's an old axiom in music that says you have your whole life to make your first record and under a year to make your second. This spells disaster for the many bands that return from touring, find themselves with nothing left to say and fall prey to the sophomore slump. But for Vancouver, Canada's Theory of a Deadman, going back into the rehearsal studio was an opportunity to experiment and grow into the group they always dreamt of being. That doesn't mean it was easy. The band members - singer Tyler Connolly, guitarist Dave Brenner and bassist Dean Back - were so exhausted after playing shows around the world with artists including 3 Doors Down, Saliva, Nickelback, and 3 Days Grace that the last thing they wanted to do when they got home was write new songs, so they took a few months off and just absorbed life. "I think the songs we did are a lot more credible this time because they weren't done over a period of six years, they were done in six months," Connolly says...