Let me correct myself. I don't think that was the major reason. You're right, i'm sure it had alot to do with the band breaking up, but I don't think that was the entire reason. The low ticket sales probably had more to do with it, if they were really as low as you alude.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUc4PmFp2e8
60-100 (100 max) people in Phoenix, Arizona. So few that they let fans onstage. Dean doesn't look too thrilled during this performance. The attendance was an embarrassment. Very Spinal Tap. The record sales sucked too. With a supergroup with Filter/STP you don't need much marketing (the single did get airplay, keep that in mind), the bottom line is people probably either heard the single and thought, "that's nothing special" or they heard about it being another supergroup and said, "Oh great another supergroup..." The album has a few good songs, but nothing memorable. Army of Anyone was a failure. I really don't get the AoA Street Team banner in your sig, I mean dude, they've been dead for nearly 2 years and they're NEVER coming back.
60-100 people, that is seriously embarrasing. Still I think that with better promotion the record would have sold moderately well, and concert attendence would have easily been higher.
"Goodbye" didn't get much airtime in the northeast. Not that I noticed anyway. And at the time I was a delivery driver, and during that summer I worked about 8 hours a day, so I listened to plenty of radio. I would say I only heard it two or three times ever on regular radio. It did recieve more play on satellite.
I'm betting that The Firm thought the same thing that you did. "With a supergroup with Filter/STP you don't need much marketing". You would think that a supergroup formed from one popular, and one slightly less popular band that ruled the 90's/early 2000's alternative rock scene wouldn't need much marketing. But in truth, only the hardcore fans followed. Certainly more so with Filter fans since Richard Patrick was fronting the band. Since Filter doesn't have a huge fanbase, that wasn't enough and not enough STP fans followed the band/spread the word to make them a success.
But seriously, I doubt you honestly believe, even if you don't think the album was that good, that if The Firm had done a better job promoting the band they wouldn't have been somewhat successful. I mean, if you take all of the albums released in 2006, "Army of Anyone" is definately in the top ten, but i'm sure tons of shitty albums achieved much higher sales, simply because of how they were marketed.
You don't need to have a great album (and in my opinion Army of Anyone
did) To be successful, it's all about how you're marketed.