Creed continued to top year-end charts and was recognized as the Rock Artist of the Year at the 1998 Billboard Music Awards .
They also won the Best Band in the World Today award at the 1998 Q Awards .
Mercury dropped the band after the album’s release, and they signed to Wind-up Records instead, which re-released the record in 1998.
My Own Prison was also the highest-selling heavy music record of 1998 on Nielsen SoundScan ‘s Hard Music chart.
The popularity of the EP brought them to the attention of Sony ‘s 550 imprint, which released their third EP, Hazleton , the following year in 1998.
Meanwhile, pursuing his own musical interests, Weiland released his first solo album, 12 Bar Blues , in 1998.
By the end of 1996, the band had nearly completed the album, which they planned to release under the title Pure White Evil . Alexakis, however, was dissatisfied with the results and decided to work on more songs for the effort, including “One Hit Wonder” and the eventual title-track to…
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Feeder would go on to release three further singles from Polythene , ” Tangerine ” (charting at No. 60 in the UK singles chart . ) and “Cement” (No. 53), ” Crash ” (No. 48). In October 1997, Feeder released their breakthrough single ” High “, which charted at No.…
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The song was their first and most successful single, followed by the release in October 1997 of their debut album Proud Like a God on BMG and GUN/Supersonic Records .
The recording was released on VHS on 29 September 1997.