In 2000, Finger Eleven released The Greyest of Blue Skies , again produced by Lanni. The album was commercially successful in Canada and received Gold certification. This was another period of heavy touring, with the band playing X-Fest , Edgefest , K-Rockathon , and the four-city Canadian festival Summersault 2000.…
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Shepherd and Cameron lent a hand with recording Tony Iommi ‘s album IOMMI (2000).
In 2000, the band began recording their seventh album, Evil Heat , released in 2002. Though the political content was not as strong as the previous album, there was a song originally slated for the album entitled “Bomb the Pentagon”, which was reworked into the song “Rise” after the 11…
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… Korn III: Remember Who You Are isn’t a numbering device, it signifies an opening of another phase in Korn’s career. Somehow, the band has bypassed a Korn II altogether in their discography, but it’s commonly acknowledged that the tail-end of the 2000s found the group floundering a bit, going…
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In addition to multiple swings through the United States and Europe, 2000 saw the band’s first and only visits to Australia, New Zealand, and Japan.
Since 2000, the band has recorded every album at the Hive , a North Hollywood, California , recording studio they purchased in 1995. The sessions for From Chaos , 311’s sixth major record release, were the first to be held there. From Chaos was released in late 2001. Its first…
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Their follow-up single ” Someday ” also enjoyed extensive airplay later that year and reached number 7 in the U.S. ” Falls Apart ” reached number 29 in early 2000. 14:59 outsold its predecessor and was certified triple platinum.
In 2000, A Thought Crushed My Mind was released.
In 2000, Durst announced that the band’s third studio album would be titled Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water . The press thought he was joking about this title. The album title is intended to sound like a fictional band; the phrase “Chocolate Starfish” refers to the human…
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In January 2000, Mendel led a benefit concert in Hollywood for the AIDS denialist group Alive & Well AIDS Alternatives , with a speech by the founder, Christine Maggiore , and distribution of free copies of her self-published book, What If Everything You Thought You Knew About AIDS Was Wrong?…
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