In April 1995, they head-lined the Barbed Wire Ball tour, a national tour that also featured the Screaming Jets, The Poor and Who’s Guilty. The band took a hiatus from recording and touring, to reconvene in mid-1996 at Darling Harbour studios for the start of sessions for their eleventh studio…
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In late March and early April 1995, the band’s former singer John Lawton briefly rejoined Uriah Heep for two weeks to tour South Africa and Austria with Deep Purple , filling in for Bernie Shaw, who was suffering from voice problems at the time.
The album Sea of Light (released in April 1995) produced by the band along with Kalle Trapp was well received and in retrospect is seen as the band’s return to form, the key to success being (according to critic Donald A. Guarisco) the way it “forsook the ill-judged pop metal…
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In April 1995, Alice in Chains entered Bad Animals Studio in Seattle with producer Toby Wright , who had previously worked with Corrosion of Conformity and Slayer .
That same year, DuBrow released The Randy Rhoads Years , a compilation featuring remixed tracks from Quiet Riot’s two Japan-only releases along with previously unreleased material, many of which featured newly recorded vocals. The band released the album Down to the Bone in March 1995 and a Greatest Hits album…
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Throughout March and May, the band held the Mother of Love, Mother of Hate tour, which included 31 concert in twenty-seven locations and an audience of sixty-three thousand people.
In March 1995, the band began a two-month tour, this time with Monster Voodoo Machine as support. This would be drummer Sara Lee Lucas’s last tour with the band. Kenneth Wilson, better known by his stage name Ginger Fish , then joined the group before they embarked on a tour…
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In March 1995, the Bloodhound Gang signed a record deal with Columbia Records and released their first full-length album, Use Your Fingers . They began touring around the U.S. but band members Daddy Long Legs and Matthew “M.S.G.” Clarke, who were angry with Columbia for undisclosed reasons, left the band…
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In March 1995, Kent released their first album, Kent . The band’s style at that time emphasized distortion , which is in contrast with their later albums. Their first single was ” När det blåser på månen “.
The band found some new popularity after signing with Trent Reznor ‘s Nothing Records in the U.S. and touring with Nine Inch Nails , as well as having their songs included in the PlayStation game Loaded . In March 1995, the band released the Dos Dedos Mis Amigos remix album…
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