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Staind
Staind is an American alternative metal group from Springfield, Massachusetts. The group comprises of the lead singer/guitarist Aaron Lewis, lead guitarist Mike Mushok, bassist/vocalist Johnny April and drummer Jon Wysocki.

Over the past nine years the band has recorded six studio albums, had multiple chart topping singles, and sold over 15 million records worldwide.

Staind laid its foundation on November 24, 1995 when the band met through friends and started covering KoRn, Rage Against the Machine, Pearl Jam, and Alice in Chains, among others, in smalltime clubs for a year and a half, Staind self-released their debut album, Tormented, in November 1996.

Until recently, the album was difficult to obtain, as only four thousand copies were originally sold. Since then, the band's official website has released the album to meet the demand from fans.

The band's big break came in October 1997 after the band opened up at a Hartford, Connecticut show, and was eventually signed by Flip record label.

Although it is supposed that the band owe a lot of success to Durst, Aaron Lewis has expressed in interviews that Durst never had much of a relationship with either the singer or the band, claiming the band 'only worked on four songs with Durst and recorded the rest of the album themselves.

Dysfunction has sold over two million copies in the U.S. alone. The album was given mediocre reviews by critics for being indicative of the times, but a large number of the band's fans nonetheless regard it as the group's best work.

The nine-track LP produced three singles, all of which enjoyed radio play. The most well known, Mudshovel has since become a staple of the band's live shows.

Staind toured with Limp Bizkit for the Family Values Tour during the fall of 1999, where Aaron Lewis performed their first mainstream hit Outside with Fred Durst to hundreds of waving cigarette lighters, and which set them up for their smash hit 2001 album Break the Cycle, which brought them international success and went number 1 in both the U.S. and the UK; sold more than 7 million copies, and had first week sales of over 767,000 in the U.S. alone.

'It's Been Awhile' spent a total of 16 and 14 weeks on top of the modern and mainstream rock charts, respectively, making it one of the highest joint number 1s (30 weeks) of all time.

In early 2003, Staind embarked on a worldwide tour to promote the release of the follow-up to Break The Cycle, 14 Shades Of Grey, which sold two million albums and debuted at number 1 on the Billboard 200. The fourteen-track collection was the band's most mainstream yet.

After extensive promotions, Staind's newest album, titled Chapter V was released on August 9, 2005, and became their third consecutive number one. The album opened to sales of 185,000 and has since been certified platinum in the U.S.

The first single Right Here has been the biggest success from the album thus far, garnering much mainstream radio play and peaking at number 1 on the mainstream rock chart.

Falling was released as the second single, followed by Everything Changes and King of All Excuses. Staind have been on the road since the album came out doing live shows and promoting it for a full year, including participating in the Fall Brawl tour with P.O.D., Taproot and Flyleaf, a solo tour across Europe and a mini-promotional tour in Australia for the first time.

They performed acoustic renditions of the single Right Here and Beetlejuice's song This is Beetle. Their rendition of Beetle is immensely popular with fans and listeners alike and became a staple of the show.

Staind announced that they would be performing an acoustic show in the Hiro Ballroom, New York City on September 6 and the songs played would be recorded for their upcoming Greatest Hits album, scheduled for a November 14 release.

They played sixteen songs including three covers: Tool's Sober, Pink Floyd's Comfortably Numb and Alice in Chains's Nutshell.