Twisted Sister, this time including Mark Mendoza, reunited again for the Sweden Rock Festival in June 2003.
Evanescence performed on radio shows and on the festival circuit for weeks in early 2003. They embarked on their first headlining tour from April to May in the US. In June 2003, they had to cancel shows in Germany due to Moody reportedly falling ill. That month, Evanescence accepted an…
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Queensrÿche found a replacement for Gray in Mike Stone , who had previously worked on Tate’s solo album. Stone accompanied the band on the Tribe tour as second guitarist to Wilton’s lead, though he never was a full member of the band. In June 2003, Queensrÿche launched a co-headlining tour…
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The self-titled Deftones was released on May 20, 2003.
After finding inspiration through Manson’s girlfriend Dita Von Teese in the swing and burlesque movements of 1920s Berlin , the band recorded The Golden Age of Grotesque , which was released on May 13, 2003, and debuted atop the Billboard 200 album chart, selling over 118,000 copies on its first…
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Evanescence’s music was initially promoted by their label in the Christian market, and Lee and Moody publicly made it clear in an April 2003 interview that they were not a Christian band or Christian rock . Moody’s comments against being in the Christian market immediately prompted the label’s chairman Alan…
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Rolling Stone stated in April 2003 that while Wind-up had no official Christian affiliation, they had been marketing their bands “to both the Christian and mainstream music market”. Wind-Up “began courting the Christian music market more than a year ago, making its first foray with 12 Stones’ self-titled 2002 debut.…
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Fallen spent 43 weeks in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 , peaking at number three. It was listed for 104 weeks on the Billboard 200, and it was one of eight albums in the history of the chart to spend at least a year in the top 50.…
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“Bring Me to Life”, featuring guest vocals from Paul McCoy of 12 Stones , and “My Immortal” were originally featured on the soundtrack of the 2003 action film Daredevil , released in February 2003. Evanescence’s debut album Fallen was released by Wind-up on March 4, 2003. As with their pre-…
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In February 2003, Kiss traveled to Australia and recorded Kiss Symphony: Alive IV with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra at Marvel Stadium (then known as Telstra Dome) in Melbourne. Thayer once again replaced Frehley, while Criss returned to the group, as one of the conditions set forth by promoters required the…
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