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In an ironic twist, the last show of Slapshot's "Pope's Dead, You're Next" Tour was 20 years ago today

May 6, 2025 Bridge Nine

Twenty years ago this month, SLAPSHOT headed to Europe with CHAMPION and SOME KIND OF HATE on what was originally their “Relight the Fire” tour, but quickly renamed as the “Pope’s Dead, You’re Next” tour (Pope John Paul II died April 2nd, 2005). Here are a bunch of never-before-seen photos (and a few that we’ve posted over the years) from that tour two decades ago:

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View fullsize We're excited to announce that we're releasing an exclusive variant of the new @piebald album 'Tales For The Rages'.

Available for pre-order now at the link in our bio.
View fullsize We can’t believe it either! Catch CARRY ON this summer at @soundandfuryfest this August! More details (& a long overdue re-press of A Life Less Plagued) coming soon!
View fullsize This HAVE HEART T-shirt was made to commemorate the band’s “final” show on 10.17.09. It was an homage to a Ten Yard Fight T-shirt (and “final” show promo stencil) that had been released a decade earlier. 

The 10.17.09 w
View fullsize This week’s T-shirt debuted in 2002 and was illustrated by artist @lin_diesel_bmore. Linas worked closely with Bridge Nine in the early 2000s, illustrating logos and album covers for bands like COPS AND ROBBERS (2001), THE HOPE CONSPIRACY (2001
View fullsize This week’s T-shirt is a throwback to 2001, for Toronto’s NO WARNING. This was the first T-shirt Bridge Nine made for the band. Check out the archive page for this T-shirt (link in profile)!

Make sure you give their 2001 self-titled EP a
View fullsize The PROCLAMATION Straight Edge Hardcore 7-inch was Bridge Nine’s third release, and the first from a Boston band on the label. It came out in the winter of 1998, after almost a year and a half of correspondence by letter between Chris Wrenn and
View fullsize Just added to our online shirt archive! This week’s T-shirt is a throwback to the spring of 2005, for Boston’s SOME KIND OF HATE. This design was printed on a 100% cotton Fruit of the Loom Valueweight T-shirt by Bridge Nine just before th
View fullsize #FBF Tenfold “Now Is Our Time” 7-inch (B9R002). Released posthumously in 1997 after the band broke up on stage at the Tune Inn in New Haven, CT. Members were also in In My Eyes and Follow Through, and went on to join Fastbreak, American N
View fullsize Just added to our online shirt archive! This is the first T-shirt that Bridge Nine made for American Nightmare. It was designed by Jacob Bannon (Deathwish Inc., Converge), who also handled the graphic design of their debut self-titled 7-inch single.
View fullsize Bridge Nine just started an online archive featuring the shirts we’ve made over the years. It includes write-ups for each design, as well as an in-depth collection of photos, ephemera, and info for each variant. We’ve started with all of
View fullsize Bridge Nine had a lot going on this year, from releasing music with H2O, Death Before Dishonor, American Nightmare, and Agnostic Front, to hosting a wild gig in our warehouse with Ten Yard Fight, and exhibits with artists like Robots Will Kill and To
View fullsize Bridge Nine is proud to partner with our friends in @piebald and @iodinerecordings to release a special limited-to-100 variant of their 1999 “If It Weren’t For Venetian Blinds, It Would Be Curtains For Us All” LP (originally release

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