Artist: Alien Ant Farm
Genre(s):
Alternative
Other
Metal
Alternative
Other
Metal
Discography:
truANT (Advance)
Year: 2003
Tracks: 12
TruANT
Year: 2003
Tracks: 12
Antology
Year: 2001
Tracks: 13
ANThology
Year: 2001
Tracks: 13
The SoCal alt-metal foursome Alien Ant Farm formed in 1996 with the wild singer/songwriter Dryden Mitchell, guitar player Terry Corso, bassist Tye Zamora, and drummer Mike Cosgrove. All were world-weary with their daylight jobs and sought something else to break them from incorporated norms. Music allowed them to freely extract themselves, and a friendship was born. They independently released their way-out debut, Greatest Hits, toward the terminal of the '90s and soon enough noise encircled the band. It north Korean won the award for Best Independent Album at the 1999 L.A. Music Awards and Alien Ant Farm launch themselves striking a deal with Papa Roach's New Noize, which is partners with DreamWorks.
Deuce years afterward they made their major-label intromission with Anthology, issued in March 2001. Debut single "Smooth Criminal" was a funky metal mix in of Michael Jackson's original strain, and pop kids of the TRL generation loved it. The vocal hit number unitary on the modernistic stone charts, and the album eventually went pt. A year later, 'tween tours of Europe, the band was back in the studio recording new music. Their unexampled strain "Bug Bites" was featured in the Tobey Maguire flick Spiderman in May 2002. But patch travelling in Spain to a gig in Portugal that same month, the band's bus collided with a motortruck, cleanup their driver, Christopher Holland. The band and crew members suffered various injuries as intimately, nigh earnestly Mitchell, wHO fractured his C2 vertebra. Thankfully, he came out of surgery able-bodied to walk, though suffered some heart scathe and a slight loss of motion.
Committed to acquiring second to work and pushing the incident aside, Alien Ant Farm hit the studio to record their followup track record. hooky player was issued in May 2003, right as Dreamworks was dissolution as a judge. As a resultant, the record album barely made a splash on the U.S. charts, though the single "These Days" managed to crack the Top 30. Guitarist Corso later exited the mathematical group and was replaced by Joe Hill. Zamora next left hand for college afterward recording of the band's quarter feat wrapped. Up in the Attic appeared in July 2006 on New Door Records, as hardcore vet Alex Barreto (Chain of Strength, Inside Out) entered on bass. Alien Ant Farm at the same time released the DVD BUSted, which included music videos, live footage, and a heart-to-heart documental.
