British rock journalist Graeme Thomson attributed the band’s 1992 breakup to their having “proved much too idiosyncratic to join the ranks of US breakout alternative bands”, citing more successful contemporaries such as R.E.M. , The Replacements , American Music Club , and Pixies .
Badmotorfinger was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance in 1992, and was among the 100 top-selling albums of the year.
After the release of Sailing the Seas of Cheese , in 1992, Primus released a cover song EP Miscellaneous Debris , with their version of XTC ‘s “Making Plans for Nigel” receiving enough airplay to reach No. 30 on Billboard ‘s Modern Rock Tracks chart.
Alice in Chains was nominated for a Best Hard Rock Performance Grammy Award in 1992 for “Man in the Box”.
in 1992 signed with Atlantic Records .
Their self-titled first album was originally released on a limited run as a double 7″ on the independent label Magnatone Records in 1992. It was soon after re-released on cassette and compact disc by Geffen . During this time, the band was good friends with, often played on records by,…
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Hole signed to Geffen ‘s subsidiary DGC label with an eight-album contract in late 1992.
By Christmas 1991, Nevermind was selling 400,000 copies a week in the US.
Achtung Baby was released in November 1991. The album represented a calculated change in musical and thematic style, their most dramatic since The Unforgettable Fire . Sonically, the record incorporated influences from alternative rock , dance, and industrial music, and Bono referred to it as “four men chopping down the…
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While still in high school in Ukiah, California , lead vocalist Davey Havok formed a band called AFI in November 1991 with Mark Stopholese and Vic Chalker.