Slowing down after the moderate success of their previous albums, it

Slowing down after the moderate success of their previous albums, it took nearly three years until Flotsam and Jetsam released their fifth album Drift in April 1995, which was dedicated to Jason’s older brother Jeff Ward , former drummer of such bands as Nine Inch Nails , Ministry , Revolting Cocks and Lard , who died in 1993. Three singles were released off of the record, and one of them (“Smoked Out”) had a music video. However, with Headbangers Ball already off the air in the U.S., and many heavy metal radio stations changing formats, Drift did not sell as well as the band’s previous albums, and about the same time they toured the U.S. with Megadeth and Korn during the summer of 1995, MCA’s six-year relationship with Flotsam and Jetsam had ended.