staind

a rock group from springfield, mass. they've produced hit songs like "Its been awhile", "So Far Away", and "Right Here", but all of there songs are good. they started as J-CAT but soon changed there name to Staind. In 1996 they released "Tormented" a nightmarish self-released album. They only produced 4000 copies of the album originally. Around 1998 Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst signed the group to flip records, and in 1999 they released "Dysfunction". it wasn't as angry or suicidal as Tormented but was very angry sounding. They released "Just Go", "Mudshovel", and "Home" as singles. On the family values tour they released the live song "Outside" which was there first main-stream hit. In 2001 they released "Break The Cycle" which spawned hits like "Its been awhile", "Fade", "For You", and "Epiphany" it has sold 5x Platinum in america. They released "14 shades of grey" in 2003. Frontman Aaron lewis had a daughter now and wrote songs about her. it spawned the hits "So Far Away", and "Price To Play". In 2005 they released there 5th album "Chapter V" which has sold platinum and held the gold selling single "Right Here". they released "The singles" in 2006 with a remastered version of "Come Again" which was on "Tormented" and in 2008 they released "Illusion of Progress" which they called there most musical album. Staind is a great band with emotional lyrics and are one of the best bands out there.