Incubus (band)

They toured worldwide in 2004 with Ben Kweller, The Vines, The Music and Sparta amongst others to promote their new album. If you do so, please let me know". Also released in 2004 was the single "Megalomaniac" with a bonus song "Monuments and Melodies". When you listen to them a second time you may sense a basic truth in these cryptic words. One song left off the album, the 26-minute long instrumental entitled "The Odyssey" featured on the Halo 2 soundtrack. This led Sarah to comment: "Listening to the lyrics in the first time, you may find it hard to understand their meaning. Other singles were "Talk Shows on Mute" and "Agoraphobia". While most of the songs are easily accessible and open, some others are strange and incomprehensible.

The first single off of ACLOTM was "Megalomaniac", which raised controversy when it was said to be an attack on the Bush administration and was banned from daytime view on MTV, despite the band saying that it was not an attack on a particular person, rather a comment on some people's negative attitudes. Gert has one big theme: losing the one you love. It combined the experimental leanings of S.C.I.E.N.C.E. and Fungus Amongus with the melodic rock of Make Yourself and Morning View. Sarah mainly tries to express ideas in her songs and has a hand in writing silly and tongue-in-cheeks songs. Their newest album, A Crow Left of the Murder, released in 2004 was a new turn for the band. Sarah and Gert write most of the music and lyrics. Most of it is written separately. Over a year after creation, the foundation has raised under $400,000, giving to organisations such as the International Red Cross, the Painted Turtle, Operation Smile and the Surfrider Foundation. In the seven years between The Great Subconscious Club and Almost Happy the music changed from raw and guitar-based to a more subtle and delicate sound.

The Make Yourself Foundation does not accept cash donations from fans. Sarah's smokey, enigmatic voice is the bands best known characteristic. Incubus also releases a CD series of "bootlegs" which feature recordings of live appearances and exlusive material, which directly benefit the charity. It ranges from very delicate and intimate singer-songwriter songs to songs that are stronger, more active and louder. Funds are gathered solely from ticket sales, merchandise, events, online auctions and album proceeds. Their music can be described as guitar-based singer-songwriter rock or folk-rock. The Make Yourself Foundation was started by the founding members of the band in 2003 as a non-profit organization which donates to causes the band deems worthy. Except for four full albums, a live album and a best of they also produced four limited edition and fan club CDs: Extra Cocoon, 2000 Seconds Live, Home and Running Backwards.

Also on the main stage were The Donnas, Jurassic 5, A Perfect Circle, Queens of the Stone Age, Audioslave, and Jane's Addiction. Gert and Sarah both want to try out some solo work. Gert produces an album (for a Belgian band, Venus in Flames) and Sarah records a solo mini-CD Go and appears on several movie soundtracks now with songs of her own (All of This Past for Underworld and Someone to say Hi to for the Zus and Zo). In 2003, the new Incubus played at the newly-revived Lollapalooza concert. In 2003 the band decides to take a year off. He seems to have impressed because he was announced as the replacement for newly departed bassist Alex Katunich. In 2001 Live (a 2-CD collection of live recordings) is in stores, and in 2003 Ten (a collection of ten years of singles and songs that didn't appear on their albums) is too, it is accompanied by a DVD with the same name. The band later said this was his 'audition'. Koen Liekens has returned as drummer.

Added to the line-up of the Time Lapse Consortium was Ben Kenney on the bass, from the band The Roots. In 2000 their last studio-album Almost Happy is finished. A bootleg was released of the show at the Roxy in Los Angelas. Meanwhile American Eric Grosman has become the permanent bass player. He also asked for help from Suzi Katayama, who had worked on Morning View, to arrange the orchestra. In 1998 Cocoon Crash, their third album is finished. However, despite his intention of a solo project, he ended up enlisting all the remaining members of the band, except Chris Kilmore. For the next year (1996-1997) they tour supporting Alanis Morissette, who heard the band playing on European festivals.

He wrote the music himself and it came out as a jazz/funk mix. At that point Bart van der Zeeuw has replaced Koen Liekens on drums and bass players continually change. During the break, guitarist Mike Einziger set up the Time Lapse Consortium. He gathered together a group of musicians to perform a select number of shows. Not an Addict, a single taken from this album was very successful and brings international fame. This new info was not released to the general public and the band took a break from Incubus to deal with the news and to take a breather from the constant pressure of writing music. In 1995 they record Paradise in Me. Dirk Lance), decided to leave the group. has no choices, so the name is meant ironically, as a strange, incomprehensible impossibility, like many of their songs.

After the tour, bassist Alex Katunich(a.k.a. In the book Joseph K. Incubus was allowed to design a Civic given away in a drawing. from Kafka's the Trial. In April 2002, the band hit the road again, this time as the headline band for Honda's Civic Tour with Hoobastank. K refers to Joseph K. Coupled with this, the band were now selling out big arenas and became a household name in the industry.1 (http://enjoyincubus.com/bio.html). When they came to the US another group with the name The Choice, forced the band to change their name; they decided that K's Choice would capture the spirit of the band.

The success of Morning View and "Wish You Were Here" marked the band as a truely popular, mainstream rock band, reaching #2 in the billboards, with Morning View reaching #2 in the album charts, selling 440,000 copies in its first week. These five toured Germany and the US, supporting the Indigo Girls, an American Folk-Rock band. The other singles from the album were "Nice To Know You", "Warning" and "Are You In" and a radio single, "Circles". In 1994 the band has five more or less permanent members: Sarah and Gert, Jan van Sichem Jr (guitar), Koen Liekens (drums) and Erik Verheyden (Bass). In interviews, the band all appeared very positive about their latest release; as Brandon Boyd puts it, "we all moved into a magnificent, Malibu mansion, set up our gear in the living room with a view of the ocean, and began creating what would be our most free-flowing work to date." The band also released a DVD after this album, featuring a live performance at the Morning View Mansion, footage of the band in the mansion, a photo gallery and the cut and un-cut versions of Wish You Were Here. The band was named The Choice and in 1993 they recorded their debut album The Great Subconscious Club. The house was located on a street named "Morning View"; hence the name. She was offered a contract and formed a band with her brother Gert.

The sound of the record is generally seen as a reflection of that environment, as opposed to the basement where S.C.I.E.N.C.E. was recorded. Under a more English name, Sarah Beth, she appeared on several movie soundtracks with covers including I'm so lonesome I could cry (originally by Hank Williams) for the movie Vrouwen Willen Trouwen (Women Want To Marry) and a duet with Frankie Miller Why don't you try me, (originally by Ry Cooder) for the movie Ad Fundum. The album was a much more mellow record as opposed to the hard sounds on Make Yourself and S.C.I.E.N.C.E., thus coming into criticism from veteran fans but still retained such rockers as Have You Ever and Under My Umbrella. This lead to the discovery of Sarah, who was offered a chance by a label; mainly because of her smokey, enigmatic voice. This album was recorded in a mansion on the Pacific coast of California. In the beginning of the nineties Sarah and Gert played in an amateur band, the Basement Plugs. Morning View was released on October 23, 2001. (guitar) and Koen Liekens (Drums).

It was replaced with footage from the band in the Morning View Mansion where the album was recorded. They are joined by Eric Grossman (Bass), Jan van Sichem Jr. Originally the video showed the band running from a group of screaming girls, forcing them to jump off a bridge into a river. The band centers around siblings Sarah (lead vocals, guitar) and Gert Bettens (guitar, keyboard, vocals). "Wish You Were Here", the first single from the group's next album, Morning View was released on August 21, 2001, and reached number two in the US. At the end of September the video for "Wish You Were Here" was released, after being re-cut in order to make it more "viewable" in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11th. K's Choice is the name of Belgian rock band from Antwerp, Belgium. The "Drive" video was nominated for an MTV Video Music Award in the category Best Group Video, but the award went to *NSYNC. Running Backwards (2003).

The band also played in Australia and Japan, before touring with Hoobastank in the United States. Home (2001). 2001 was a busy year for the band, when Incubus went on the road with Hundred Reasons in the summer and played the Area One Festival before their Make Yourself went Double Platinum, selling two million copies. 2000 Seconds Live (1998). Fungus Amongus was re-released on November 7th, 2000, as a response to demand for the independently released album. Extra Cocoon (1998). During the year 2000, Incubus toured with Queen Adreena, 311, Deftones and Taproot and played Ozzfest again. 10 (2003).

Later the DVD, When Incubus Attacks Volume 2 was also released, featuring live footage, music videos and various backstage footage. Live (2001). In the first week of its release (August 22nd, 2000), When Incubus Attacks Volume 1 sold almost 40,000 copies, and reached number 41 on the US Billboard Album Charts. Almost Happy (2000). After playing the Ozzfest tour again, a six song EP, When Incubus Attacks Volume 1, was released. Cocoon Crash (1998). The next single, "Drive," did one better, reaching #1 and giving the band a new, mainstream following. Paradise in Me (1995).

It reached #2 in the Billboard Charts. The Great Subconscious Club (1993). "Stellar" was the second single released from Make Yourself, and the video was played on MTV and TRL. The single reached #3 in the Billboard Music Charts. "Pardon Me" was released as a single and -- as MTV began playing the video -- the band began to gain a mainstream following.

Immediately they went out on tour again, this time with Primus. The album was a much more mainstream rock album than the experimental S.C.I.E.N.C.E.. After touring with Black Sabbath, Incubus began recording Make Yourself, which was released on October 26, 1999. A live recording of the song "New Skin" appeared on the Family Values compilation CD.

The band then continued to tour, playing in Europe and America with the likes of Sugar Ray, Hoobastank, 311, Far, One Minute Silence, Cold, Limp Bizkit, (hed) p.e., Snot, Soulfly, System of a Down, Korn, Papa Roach, as well as playing the Warped Tour for three dates, the Ozzfest and the Family Values tour in the summer and fall of 1998. In February 1998, DJ Lyfe was asked to leave because of trouble within the band and Chris Kilmore was brought in to fill the vacant position. "A Certain Shade Of Green" was the only single from the album and didn't make a dent in the singles charts. S.C.I.E.N.C.E. was released on September 9, 1997.

Incubus collaborated with DJ Greyboy to produce the song "Familiar" for the Spawn movie soundtrack in 1997. Many songs from Fungus Amongus were rereleased on Enjoy Incubus, but were touched up. Enjoy Incubus was released on Immortal Records on January 7 of that year, exactly two years after the band's second demo. Between that release and their 1997 major label debut EP, Enjoy Incubus, the band acquired DJ Lyfe, who introduced hip-hop sounds to the band's already diverse mix of music.

On November 1, 1995, Fungus Amongus was released on the band's own label,Stopuglynailfungus Music on Chillum. On January 7, 1995, the demo tape Incubus was released, featuring songs that would later appear on their first album, Fungus Amongus, and their EP, Enjoy Incubus. One song of interest from this demo was "Bathe In My Snot", which harnessed much of the band's newly created energy. For the next few years, Incubus continued to play live and write music, which cumulated in their first demo recording released in 1994, titled Closet Cultivation.

In 1991, after adopting the name Incubus, the band began playing at parties in their neighborhood. At this time they began writing their own music. They asked their friend, Brandon Boyd to join and he became the vocalist. They mostly played Metallica and Megadeth covers and were able to get a few gigs at friend's parties.

Jose Pasillas, Alex Katunich, Mike Einziger began jamming together while at Calabasas High School in 1990. "Incubus" is latin for "nightmare." Mike says that the name was chosen because it sounded silly; Brandon holds that it was chosen because they were teenagers and the definition had the word "sex" in it. After a few failed choices, Mike looked in a thesaurus and chose "Incubus" almost at random. The band needed to think of a name hours before their first show.

Dirk Lance) (bass). Former members of the band include DJ Lyfe (turntables) and Alex Katunich (a.k.a. Incubus is an eclectic rock band, that consists of five men from Calabasas, California: Brandon Boyd (vocals and percussion), Mike Einziger (guitar), Ben Kenney (bass), Jose Pasillas (drums) and DJ Kilmore (turntables). There is also a demon called an incubus..