Original sentence: Following the release of "4:AM Forever", the final single from Liberation Transmission, Lostprophets debuted several new songs live, including "Next Stop Atrocity", "The Dead", "Weapon" and "For He's a Jolly Good Felon"
Edited sentence: Although the band had recorded a full album's worth of material in LA, they were not satisfied that Feldmann had produced the album they wanted to record, and so the recording s were shelved and the band requested that Bob Rock, producer of Liberation Transmission, worked with them again.Following the release of "4:AM Forever", the final single from Liberation Transmission, Lostprophets expressed a desire to record a darker, nastier, and lyrically more pessimistic and cynical record than before.Former Beat Union drummer Luke Johnson joined Lostprophets in June 2009, and has filmed the videos for the album's first two singles and will play live with the band from the Reading and Leeds Festivals in late August.Having started writing new tracks between tour dates in 2007, they debuted several new songs live, including "Next Stop Atrocity", "The Dead", "Weapon" and "For He's a Jolly Good Felon".However, Rock's hectic and unpredictable schedule meant that the band were not able to work with him until June 2009, a delay they were not prepared to take.Rubin was invited by Trent Reznor to join the touring band for Nine Inch Nails from January 2009, and so left Lostprophets after recording the drums for the album.The album recordings were announced to be completed via a MySpace blog on March 31 2009.The band also left their US record label Columbia around this time.The band continued writing in 2008, debuting eventual first single "It's Not the End of the World But I Can See It from Here" and "These Streets of Nowhere", as well as a new version of "Next Stop Atrocity".Towards the end of the year, Lostprophets finally began recording what would become The Betrayed.Writing of the album was announced to be finished at a performance in Sheffield in August