This is me catching up on posts that I should have written...yesterday. I did not write said post for reasons I would really rather keep to myself. Anyway, today's artist is...
Breaking Benjamin! Aren't you happy I went back to "my" genre after doing Cage the Elephant? I am. This might be a longer post because of that. So shut up and be happy.
Breaking Benjamin currently consists of Ben Burnley on lead vocals. Yeah, that's right...everyone else quit. Why? I have no idea. But Ben is apparently trying to keep it together and get some new people, so if you can play a bass, guitar, or drums, give him a call. Actually, I just went and looked at their website, and now I'm just really confused. Ben said that they are absolutely not broken up, and that he was just taking time off for medical issues (he used to be an alcoholic, and he has some brain-type problems now. serious, because it's his brain, but he isn't going to die on us tomorrow or anything.). But then after that statement...the biography talks almost exclusively about Ben. I don't even know what to think anymore.
At any rate, Breaking Benjamin has released five albums. The first, in 2002, was on the Hollywood Label. That was Saturate. The next album, We Are Not Alone, was released in 2004, also under Hollywood. Phobia came next in 2006, again produced by Hollywood. Actually, all of their albums have been produced by Hollywood, including Dear Agony (the cover of which is an actual scan of Ben's brain--I've always wondered if it was or not, and now I know! I love the internet.) which was released in 2009. They also have a compilation album, Shallow Bay: The Best of Breaking Benjamin, which was came out in 2011.
Apparently Ben is the only lyricist in the band, which is cool. He does work with people when he writes though, so it's not just him going scribbling out stuff until a song appears. He is also deathly afraid of flying, which is why Breaking Benjamin will never, never ever go on a world tour. So if you want to see them live (and you do, I promise) you'll have to come to America to do so.
I'll put the other members here, just in case the band really isn't broken up and I have to credit everyone. Aaron Fink is on lead guitar, Mark Klepaski is on bass, and Chad Szeliga is on drums. Again, I'm not totally sure if any of those guys are still in the band or not. Wikipedia says no, Ben Burnley says yes...but he did release that statement last year. Things could be totally different by now. I really haven't the foggiest, darlings.
Anyways, that's all I've got on them...so until next time, dearies!
--Razza Ragazza
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