Nine Inch Nails then embarked on a world tour that continued through the first Lollapalooza festival in 1991.
During 1991, Konietzko collaborated with Buzz McCoy of My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult to record an album under the name Excessive Force titled Conquer Your World .
In 1991, drummer Fred Streithorst joined the band under the name Sara Lee Lucas .
As Curve, Halliday and Garcia released three acclaimed and increasingly successful EPs ( Blindfold , Frozen , and Cherry ) throughout 1991 on Anxious Records. They also made an impact on the UK album charts in 1992 with their debut studio album Doppelgänger . The group toured extensively during this…
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The line-up of Knight, Larkin, Laing and Toogood recorded their debut track, “Down Dance”, which was issued in August 1990 as a B-side of a split single with the A-side, ” Dogs Are Talking ” by Australian group, the Angels . The other B-side, “Live It Up”, was by Auckland…
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On January 24, 1990, the band released ” Aku no Hana “, which became their first single to reach number one. The album Aku no Hana followed on February 1, and went much further into the dark and gothic image they had begun to explore on Taboo and which would…
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Gotobed left the band in 1990, after the release of the album Manscape . After his departure, the band dropped one letter from its name, becoming “Wir” (still pronounced “wire”), and released The First Letter in 1991. There followed a further period of solo recordings, during which Newman founded the…
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In the fall of 1990, Buck-Tick went back to the studio to work on their sixth studio album, Kurutta Taiyou . They spent 800 hours making it, much more than any of their previous albums. The difference was noticeable as the sound is much deeper and more sophisticated, using many…
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Pop Will Eat Itself released three albums on RCA. The first two ( This Is the Day…This Is the Hour…This Is This! and Cure for Sanity ) were recorded with the aid of Flood , known for his work with Nine Inch Nails , U2 and Depeche Mode . The…
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Two years later, Faster Pussycat recorded their most successful album, Wake Me When It’s Over . The album earned gold status from the RIAA . Sales were mainly driven by the hit single “House of Pain”. Music videos were produced for “House of Pain” and “Poison Ivy”. While the band…
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