Jerry Cantrell met William DuVall in Los Angeles in 2000 through a mutual acquaintance who introduced Cantrell to Comes with the Fall’s first album .
In 2000, Martin Powell switched positions with Cradle of Filth ‘s keyboardist Les Smith , who came to be an integral member of Anathema.
The band worked on recording the album off and on from April to December 2000
In June 1999, the album Judgement was released, marking Anathema’s complete shift from the doom metal genre, focusing instead on slower and more experimental songs. This new sound has been likened to artists such as Pink Floyd , Jeff Buckley , and to a lesser extent, Radiohead . Their songs…
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With the completion of another successful world tour, writing for a fifth album began. In the period immediately following the release of October Rust , resulting in 1999’s World Coming Down (working titles included Prophets of Doom and Aggroculture ). World Coming Down debuted at No. 39 on the Billboard…
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Liebling and Hasselvander recorded both 1999’s Review Your Choices and 2001’s Sub-Basement as a duo. In-between those albums, a brief live reunion of the Death Row classic lineup took place with Liebling, Griffin, Hasselvander, and Abney. The combo of Liebling and Hasselvander occasionally performed live as Pentagram during this period,…
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Originally intended for Cantrell’s second solo album, the songs were reworked by Alice in Chains and were released in the fall of 1999 on a box set , Music Bank .
Ward returned for a US tour with openers Pantera , which began in January 1999 and continued through the summer, headlining the annual Ozzfest tour.
The band kept active, recording and releasing their fourth album, Tonight’s Decision , in 1999.
Osbourne famously refused the Hall’s “meaningless” initial nomination in 1999