The mid-to-late 1990s were KMFDM’s most successful years in terms of album sales and mainstream awareness. Konietzko moved to Seattle in 1994, while Esch moved to New Orleans. Watts rejoined the band to work on its seventh album, Nihil , which peaked at No. 16 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart…
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After The Downward Spiral ‘s 1994 release, the live band supported it by embarking on the Self Destruct Tour .
The widest mainstream audience was a mud-soaked performance at Woodstock ’94 , and seen by Pay-Per-View in up to 24 million homes.
Q magazine described the 1993 Devotional Tour as “The Most Debauched Rock ‘n’ Roll Tour Ever”. According to The Independent , the “smack-blasted” Gahan “required cortisone shots just to perform, borderline alcoholic Gore suffered two stress-induced seizures, and Andrew Fletcher’s deepening depression resulted, in the summer of 1994, in a…
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The band’s second live album, Songs of Faith and Devotion Live , was released in December 1993.
Clayton’s issues with alcohol came to a head on the final leg of the Zoo TV Tour. After experiencing a blackout , Clayton was unable to perform for the group’s 26 November 1993 show in Sydney, which served as the dress rehearsal for a worldwide television broadcast the following night…
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Tool later played several concerts during the Lollapalooza festival tour, and was moved from the second stage to the main stage by the group’s manager and the festival co-founder Ted Gardner . At the last concert of Lollapalooza in Tool’s hometown Los Angeles, comedian Bill Hicks introduced the band. Hicks…
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In September 1993, Daft Punk attended a rave at EuroDisney organised by the DJ Nicky Holloway , where they met Stuart Macmillan of Slam , the co-founder of the Scottish label Soma Quality Recordings . They gave him a demo tape, which formed the basis for Daft Punk’s debut single,…
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In June 1993, U2 signed a six-album deal to remain with Island Records/ PolyGram . The Los Angeles Times estimated that the deal was worth US$60 million to the band, making them the highest-paid rock group ever. The following month, the group released a new album, Zooropa . Quickly recorded…
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The following year, at a time when alternative rock and grunge were at their height, Tool released their first full-length album, Undertow (1993). It expressed more diverse dynamics than Opiate and included songs the band had chosen not to publish on their previous release, when they had opted for a…
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