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Every Trick in the Book

2015 studio album by Ice Nine Kills

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 28, 2025
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Every Trick in the Book is the fourth album by the American heavy metal band Ice Nine Kills, released on December 4, 2015, by Fearless Records. It is the band's first release through Fearless Records and their fourth overall. Each track on the album is based on a piece of literature. Some examples of the source material are: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Dracula, The Exorcist, and Romeo & Juliet. The album peaked at number 122 on the US Billboard 200, selling over 7,300 albums in its first week. This is the last album the band released to feature Conor Sullivan on drums.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Every Trick in the Book” is 2015 studio album by Ice Nine Kills. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Every, Trick and Book, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2015—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Every, Trick and Book is the immediate research focus.
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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 28, 2025. The first chronological checks are 2015.

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This entry incorporates text from “Every Trick in the Book” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.