The Killers

The killers are an American Grammy-Award nominated and BRIT-Award winning alternative rock band from Nevada, who were formed late 2002. The band are made up of Brandon Flowers (vocals, keyboards), Dave Keuning (guitar, vocals), Mark Stoermer (bass guitar, vocals) and Ronnie Vannucci Jr. (percussion, drums).

The group's First album, Hot Fuss (2004) brought the band mainstream success. The Killers' second album, Sam's Town, was released in 2006, and the compilation album Sawdust containing B-sides, rarities, and new material, was released in 2007. Their third studio album, Day & Age, produced by Stuart Price, was released in 2008.

The beginning of the band started in 2001 when lead singer Brandon Flowers met David Keuning after responding to an ad Keuning had left in a Las Vegas Newspaper.Keuning had originally thought of the lyrics and music for future hit, Mr.Brightside.The other two members of the band were later approached by Flowers and Keuning to join the band, named ‘The killers’ which comes from the bass drum of a fictional band in the music video for New Order song ‘Crystal.


Hot fuzz (2004)

The Killers released their album Hot Fuss in June 2004 in the United Kingdom and in the United States on Island Records. The band a had chart success with its singles "Mr. Brightside", which reached the Top 10 in the UK when released,and "All These Things That I've Done". There biggest hit was the re-release of "Somebody Told Me".

The album was nominated for five grammy awards,and since has acheived worldwide sales of over 7.5 million units.

Sam's Town (2006-2007)

The bands second album 'Sams Town' was released inOctober 2006 under island def jam music group.The album sold over 760,000 copies in its first week of release with a number two debut on the U.S billboard chart.The album produced four singles.These were:

'When You Were Young'
'Bones'
'Read My Mind'
'For Reasons Unknown'

The first single,'When You Were Young' was the albums highest position entry in the UK chart reaching number two.In 2007 The killers antended the Brit awards claiming Best international group and best international album.In June of the same year they headlined Glastonbury.

During a year of not being the limelight,whilst working on there 3rd album,the band released a compilation album called sawdust,made up of B-sides,rarities and new material.They also released a cover of version of Joy Division's 'Shadowplay' on the american Itunes store.



Day & Age (2008)

The Killers released 3rd studio album 'Day & Age on the 24th November 2008.The first single off the album 'Human' had been relaeased two months before the album in september.The second single was released as a download in early november in the US before being put onto vynyl and CD a month later.thye also had successes with singles 'The World We Live In' and 'A Dustland Fairytale',with the former given more publicity and recognition.

The album debuted at number one in the UK album charts selling over 200,000 copies in its first week.It has since gone 3x platinum in the UK for selling over a million copies.To date it has sold over 2.6 million copies worldwide.