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 .
In 1998, Limp Bizkit toured with Soulfly and Cold on Soulfly’s first European tour. Touring consistently increased Limp Bizkit’s success and the second single from Three Dollar Bill, Y’all , a cover of George Michael’s “Faith”, became a successful radio hit, leading to a slot on Ozzfest , a tour…
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Lee and Moody recorded two EPs as Evanescence: Evanescence (1998), of which 100 copies were made and sold at their early live performances; and Sound Asleep (1999), also known as the Whisper EP. Their demos got them airplay on the local modern rock station in Little Rock, which helped them…
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Additionally, the band played on the 1998 UK Ozzfest tour alongside Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne, Foo Fighters , Slayer , Soulfly , Fear Factory, and Therapy? , as well as touring with Clutch and Neurosis .
Twisted Sister’s first reunion was in 1998 when the band recorded one song, “Heroes Are Hard to Find”, for the soundtrack of Snider’s movie Strangeland .
In 1998, Helloween released Better Than Raw , one of the band’s heaviest albums since the full-length debut.
Between 1998 and 2000, the band was basically dormant with only two festival appearances in the two-year span. The summer of 2000 saw the release of the follow-up album to The Dark Command , Blood of Tyrants . The new album was heavier and more aggressive than its predecessor. In…
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The band’s first greatest hits album, Choice Cuts , arrived in 1998. Geffen Records produced a music video for their cover of We’re an American Band , a 1970s hit song by Grand Funk Railroad .
Benjamin Burnley was originally in a band named Breaking Benjamin in 1998, that played “softer music”, such as Weezer and the Beatles covers, and was “nothing like” subsequent lineups. The name originates from an incident in which Burnley broke a borrowed microphone, prompting its owner to retort, “Thanks to Benjamin…
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They released their first EP , Missa , a few months later and attracted mainstream attention in 1998, by entering the top ten on the Oricon music charts with the still independently produced songs “Jealous” and “-I’ll-“. Five subsequent singles, arranged and produced by X Japan co-founder Yoshiki , were…
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