Breaking Benjamin

To add to the credibility of the band, their first single "So Cold" has spent 37 weeks in the top 20 of the Billboard charts (as of February 3, 2005). Discography. Since Jeremy Hummell left the band in 2004, Breaking Benjamin has hired Chad Szeliga as the band's new drummer. Their last album was a collection called Parched With Thirst Am I and Dying (1992). They also created an original cut for the immensely popular video game Halo 2. Marks soon left again, but Martin Eric Ain returned soon after to replace him. On June 24, 2004, the band released We Are Not Alone, which featured the first single "So Cold". Though it was critically successful, Celtic Frost's reputation had not recovered yet.

Sticking to the genre's symbolistic downtuned guitars, which creates a haunting and overwhelming heaviness in their songs, they manage to keep their melodies prominent. Warrior fired Amberg and convinced Ron Marks to return for the release of Vanity/Nemesis in 1990. Breaking Benjamin's roots are clearly alternative rock/metal band, but they are definitely heavier than their peers. The album was an utter failure in both mainstream and heavy metal markets, and the band was ridiculed by its former fans as a sell-out. Ben Burnley says that he self-taught himself the guitar by listening to Nirvana's Nevermind. They mutated the death metal/black metal sound into radio-friendly thrash/glam rock sound. The first single "Polyamorous" received much radio airplay, and propelled the band to stardom. Despite his willingness, Warrior did not take much interest in the album and producer Tony Platt and Amberg took control of the recording of Cold Lake.

The record had clear influences and touches of Tool, Korn, and Nirvana. Six months later, Warrior decided to reform the band with Stephen Priestly, Oliver Amberg and Curt Victor Bryant. Formed in late 2000, Breaking Benjamin signed up with Hollywood Records and released their first major-label record Saturate in 2002. During a subsequent American tour, financial trouble and personal tension between the bandmembers led to a complete dissolution. Breaking Benjamin is a rock band from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. The album was one of the pivotal LPs of heavy metal in Europe, and innovated a new, more classical sound in death metal. We Are Not Alone (2004, Hollywood Records). However, their most influential recording is 1987 Into the Pandemonium.

Saturate (2002, Hollywood Records). To Mega Therion was just as successful as their first. Jeremy Hummell (drums). Their second album was To Mega Therion, with cover artwork by H.R. Giger. Chad Szeliga (drums). By 1984, Hellhammer had morphed into a more gothic, classical group called Celtic Frost. Their debut LP, Morbid Tales was a hit in the European metal scene, and the band set out on its first tour, through Germany and Austria. Mark James Klepaski (bass guitar). The band attracted a small local fanbase, and they soon signed to Noise Records in Germany.

Aaron Fink (guitar). With Bruce Day and Steve Warrior, he formed Hellhammer in 1982. Ben Burnley (vocals and guitar). The frontman, Thomas Gabriel Fischer, was of Swiss origin, and changed his name to Tom Warrior early in his career.
Celtic Frost was a European black metal band. Morbid Tales/Emperor's Return (1998).

Parched With Thirst Am I and Dying (1992). Vanity/Nemesis (1990). Cold Lake (1988). Into the Pandemonium (1987).

Tragic Serenades (1986). Emperor's Return (1985). To Mega Therion (1985). Morbid Tales (1984).