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The Riverside, California USA-based Alternative-Rock band Alien Ant Farm
formed in 1996 with the line-up of frontman singer+songwriter Dryden Mitchell,
guitarist Terry Corso, bassist Tye Zamora and drummer Mike Cosgrove.
Together, the quartet crafted unique Metal stylings throughout the late
'90s; "Greatest Hits", which was issued independently in 1999,
marked Alien Ant Farm's first full-length album.
Two years later, in March 2001, after being signed by Papa
Roach's DreamWorks imprint New Noize, the band released "ANThology";
the first single off the CD, "Movies", broke into the top 20
of The Modern Rock chart and the worldwide smash, the cover of Michael
Jackson's "Smooth Criminal", followed peaking at #1 on The Modern
Rock airplay chart; "Smooth Criminal" also hit #1 in Australia,
#3 on the U.K. Official Top 40 chart and reached #23 on the U.S. Billboard
Hot 100 sending the album to #11 on The Billboard 200 chart.
May 22, 2002, became a dark day in the history of the band when on their
way from Spain to Portugal, their tourbus collided with a truck, the driver
of the bus was killed, other members of the band and crew were seriously
injured.
Alien Ant Farm regrouped a year later for their third effort, "truANT",
the band hit the road again to promote their new album, which didn't rise
higher than #42 on The Billboard Top 200 chart and its main single, "These
Days", barely sneaked into the top 30 of The Modern Rock chart; in
October 2003 guitarist Terry Corso left the band he helped create over
“irreconcilable differences” and subsequently joined Powerman
5000; Corso was replaced by Vincent Camacho temporarily for a few
shows, then guitarist Joe Hill joined the band early in 2004.
Alien Ant Farm's fourth studio record, "Up In The Attic", arrived
in July 2006; the album sold poorly and spun off only one minor hit single
"Forgive And Forget".
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