[23][24][25] After a final European tour as a four-piece, the remaining members of As Friends Rust announced that the band was changing name to Salem in September 2002.
[26] As Friends Rust reunited in March 2008, with Moyal, Kirkpatrick, Simmons, Stewart, and Glayat reprising their 1998–2000 line-up,[27][28] and the band embarked on a European and British tour in August 2008.
[29][30] For its Japanese tour in June 2014, supporting the compilation album Greatest Hits?, drummer Joshua Williams filled in for Kirkpatrick.
[40][41][42] In late 2022, bass guitarist Andrew Seward was recruited to record the band's second full-length album, Any Joy, and tour in promotion of the release throughout 2023.
[43][44] As Simmons was unable to tour Europe and the United Kingdom in September and October 2023, guitarist and backing vocalist Ryan Mahon was recruited to fill the spot.