In 1998, the Renaissance Records label issued The Best of Alcatrazz , a look back at the band’s brief career. God Blessed Video appeared in the 2002 videogame soundtrack Grand Theft Auto: Vice City , playing on fictional rock station V-Rock .
Scholz headed back to the studio in 1998 to begin work on a fifth album, which eventually turned out to be Corporate America . The title track of “Corporate America” was uploaded by Tom Scholz to MP3.com under the pseudonym of “Downer’s Revenge” in early 2002 to test the album’s…
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while ” No Shelter ” appeared on the Godzilla soundtrack in 1998.
However, later that day they played ” Forever Love ” at that year’s KÅhaku Uta Gassen , marking their true last performance.
X Japan performed their farewell show, titled The Last Live: Saigo no Yoru , at the Tokyo Dome on December 31, 1997, making it the last of five consecutive New Year’s Eves the group performed at the stadium.
In December 1997, the group was joined by Ward, marking the first reunion of the original quartet since Osbourne’s 1992 “retirement show”.
To promote Reload , Metallica performed ” Fuel ” and ” The Memory Remains ” with Marianne Faithfull on NBC ‘s Saturday Night Live in December 1997.
The band released their second EP, Remix & Repent , on November 25, 1997.
November 1997 saw the release of Led Zeppelin BBC Sessions , a two-disc set largely recorded in 1969 and 1971.
Just four months later, both Vulgar Display of Power and Far Beyond Driven were awarded platinum as well.