Following the success of Beautiful Freak , E experienced a difficult time in his personal life. His sister died by suicide, and his mother was diagnosed with cancer. These events inspired Eels’ second album, 1998’s Electro-Shock Blues . The album deals with many difficult subjects, including cancer, mental illness, suicide…
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Thirty Seconds to Mars started in 1998 in Los Angeles , California, as a collaboration between brothers Jared Leto and Shannon Leto , who had been playing music together since their childhood. The duo later expanded to a four-piece when they added guitarist Solon Bixler and bassist Matt Wachter to…
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Fort Hamilton High School Auditorium in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, New York. The infamous “Battle of the Bands”. Our first show as Indecision. Also playing was Out of Line (with Frank Collins (Rest in Peace), Louis Torres *Founding guitarist of Indecision/ Farmer, and Dennis Dever), Confusion (with Mike Price and Mike…
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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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In late 1998, the band regrouped and began work on a fourth Stone Temple Pilots album.
Prior to the release of 1998’s Follow the Leader , Gretchen Plewes, a Zeeland, Michigan high school assistant principal, said in an interview for a Michigan newspaper that Korn’s music is “indecent, vulgar, obscene and intends to be insulting” after giving a student named Eric VanHoven a one-day suspension for…
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They then took part in the Warped Tour in 1998. During the late 1990s and early 2000s Hatebreed went through many lineup changes, with Jasta and Beattie being the two mainstays. They continued touring heavily during this time joining the Tattoo the Earth tour in 2000 and making their first…
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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 .
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.
The band was formed in 1998, originally called The Elements. After discovering that another band had the same name, the members changed the name to Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, after Marlon Brando ‘s motorcycle club in the 1953 film The Wild One .