Following this American tour, As Friends Rust was put on hold for a month as Moyal, Kirkpatrick, and Simmons toured Europe and the United Kingdom with Culture from August 14 to September 13, 1998; the latter band would disband shortly after returning home. After replacing Bartsocas with guitarist James Glayat…
Read More
In September 1998, the band released How It Feels to Be Something On . For the album, the remaining trio replaced Mendel with Jeff Palmer, formerly of the Mommyheads . Palmer left the band after a short time, and he was replaced by Joe Skyward. The title track and “Every…
Read More
Encouraged by the unexpected success of As Good as Dead , Island Records greenlit a third album with Local H’s preferred producer, Roy Thomas Baker , along with a larger budget and a promise of no interference. That album, Pack Up the Cats , was a 15-track concept album chronicling…
Read More
On June 14, 1998, while touring near Winnipeg in Canada, the band’s van was broadsided and destroyed, and the rest of the tour was canceled.
Bryan Carlstrom produced their self-titled debut . He had engineered albums by multi- platinum outfits The Offspring and Alice in Chains as well as producing labelmates Stavesacre . Schwab drew upon personal struggles he was experiencing at the time to write meaningful lyrics. Sonny Sandoval , lead singer of nu…
Read More
In May 1998 three tracks were recorded for a split with New York’s Indecision entitled The Fall of Every Man . The split was released in November 1998. As Shai Hulud’s popularity grew some of the band’s members’ interest began to wane. In January 1999, Oliver Chapoy decided to leave…
Read More
“Home Is Where the Heart Aches” was combined with four songs from the band’s 1996 recording session (“Encante,” “Ruffian,” “When People Resort to Name Calling,” and “Broken Brain”) to make up the band’s debut extended play, The Fists of Time , released by Good Life Recordings on compact disc and…
Read More
and the album was released in February.
an appearance on Modern Rock Live on January 25, 1998
Released on April 28, 1998, the album was commercially successful and marked one of the band’s highest debuts yet on Billboard ‘ s charts. Critical reaction to End Hits was mixed. Many critics praised its heavier tracks, while others questioned the inclusion of the group’s longer, more experimental songs. Fugazi…
Read More