Because Palko felt that he should no longer play a character, he began to take on a more open writing style,[REF] and signed with Definitive Jux, where he released his second studio album Hell's Winter, on September 20, 2005.
In a 2007 interview with American actor Shia LaBeouf, for Vanity Fair, LaBeouf expressed interest in starring as Palko in a possible film biography [REF].