Though the album did not approach the success of Dookie , it sold three million copies in the United States. The album earned the band award nominations for Favorite Artist, Favorite Hard Rock Artist, and Favorite Alternative Artist at the 1996 American Music Awards , and the video for “Walking…
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Bad Religion continued touring and recording without Brett Gurewitz, releasing three more albums for Atlantic, starting with The Gray Race (1996), produced by former Cars frontman Ric Ocasek . Despite never garnering the amount of attention that Stranger Than Fiction received, it scored Bad Religion a minor U.S. radio hit…
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Around 1996, Suicidal Tendencies had reunited, with Muir and Clark hiring lead guitarist Dean Pleasants (formerly of Infectious Grooves ), new bassist Josh Paul and new drummer Brooks Wackerman (formerly of Bad4Good and Infectious Grooves , who later joined Bad Religion and is now with Avenged Sevenfold ) as the…
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In 1996, Rob Chaos, Joe E. Bastard and Shawn Smash recruited Suzy Homewrecker on drums to record a new album titled Anthems From the Alleyway . This album differs from the others because of the 70s punk rock influenced sound. By 1997, the band lost contact with Epitaph Records while…
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and performing a new gig at the Estadio Obras in 1996.
In late 1995 the band resumed its activity, they have reunited many times ever since, with different musicians, except singer Pil Trafa, who remained the only permanent member. With bassist “Polaco” Zelazek and Anel Paz substituting guitarist “Stuka”, they recorded the album Otra patada en los huevos (“Another kick to…
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The group co-headlined a national tour with Pennywise and Blink-182 in December.
In November 1995, D.R.I. released Full Speed Ahead . They also made another music video, this time for a song called “Syringes In The Sandbox”.
The band’s fourth studio album, Insomniac , was released on October 10, 1995.
The band supported No Fun at All and Face to Face on tours of Japan (October 1995)