Walker in early 2007. The summer of 2007 saw the band spending a lot of their time writing and recording in their newly built home studio. Late fall, they were on the verge of completion of a 10 track album. On October 10, 2007, October Sky independently launched their debut album Hell Isn't My Home at the Cafe Campus in Montreal to a crowd of 500 fans. Shortly after, the band entered a battle of the bands contest called Omnium Du Rock. While finishing second in the final, they were approached by one of the judges, an agent for the record distribution company TRX Distribution, based in Montreal. Hell Isn't My Home (2008-2009) October Sky signed a distribution deal with TRX Distribution in the summer of 2008, and officially released Hell Isn't My Home on September 2, 2008, online and in all Archambault music stores in Quebec and Ontario. The band put on album launch parties for the media on September 2 at Cafe Campus in Montreal and September 3 at The Rivoli in Toronto. In promotion of the album, the band set out on a cross-Canadian tour of 21 shows in 16 different cities from Sherbrooke, Quebec to Vancouver, BC from September 18th to October 31st, 2008, having opened for Mobile a couple of times. The album was well received by the media, receiving radio play on over 20 commercial radio stations across Canada. Their music video for "Hit the Ground" debuted at number 4, ahead of Madonna and Justin Timberlake, on MusiquePlus' "Plus sur commande," a television show playing the most requested music videos of the week. The music video was also playlisted on MuchLOUD. October Sky won three Toronto Exclusive Magazine Awards for their debut album Hell Isn't My Home. In the harsh Canadian winter of early 2009, October Sky was invited to play on two occasions in the Feerie des Glaces festival in Mont-Tremblant, Quebec, whereby they opened for classic rock veteran Michel Pagliaro. Later that year, TRX Distribution was bought out by distribution company DEP under Universal Music Canada, and October Sky and Universal failed to reach an agreement to continue distributing Hell Isn't My Home. October Sky then entered what they decided would be their last contest, called Global Battle of the Bands (GBOB), an international competition, as the name suggests. They won the Montreal regional finals in May, and moved on to play