 In 1996, Econoline Crush signed with the well-known management group Bruce Allen Talent, and recorded in Sound City studio.For these sessions, noted producer Sylvia Massy (Tool, System of a Down, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Johnny Cash), helped to create the band's 1997 release, "The Devil You Know".The album launched EC on cross-Canadian tours with KISS, Foo Fighters, Green Day and others, and the subsequent 1998 American release of "The Devil You Know" on Restless Records found them touring the United States and Canada extensively with KISS, Stabbing Westward, God Lives Underwater and many others.