Amped album released in Europe

In 1998, after almost two years of constant touring, Dog Eat Dog began working on new material. They worked in a studio four days a week and wrote fifteen new songs in a few short months. These songs would result in the Amped album, recorded in Washington, D.C., with Italric, a friend of Finley’s who owned his own studio. The band would spend nearly ten months working on their album and considered it to be their finest work yet. The album was released exclusively in Europe, on June 28, 1999. “Expect the Unexpected” was the first single and video, and it managed to peak at No. 94 on the UK Singles Chart. Due to their disappointment in Roadrunner’s support and the fact that their latest album wasn’t even available in their own home country, the band decided to part with the Roadrunner label after a seven-year relationship. Roadrunner responded by releasing In the Dog House: The Best and The Rest on May 22, 2001. The album, a compilation of songs and remixes spanning their six years on the Roadrunner label, was released without the band’s input or approval.