Breaking Benjamin Tickets

Breaking Benjamin is an American post-grunge band from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Formed in 1998 by vocalist Benjamin Burnley and drummer Jeremy Hummel, Breaking Benjamin quickly acquired a strong local success. In 1999, the band briefly renamed themselves "Plan 9." In late 2000, after various line-up changes, they switched back to "Breaking Benjamin" and Aaron Fink and Mark Klepaski - friends of Burnley, left their previous band, Lifer, and joined Breaking Benjamin as guitarist and bassist.

After the success of an independently-released, self-titled EP, the band signed to Hollywood Records in 2001 which sold all 2,000 copies that were manufactured and thus, Saturate came into being on August 27, 2002. The album's first single, "Polyamorous", received a fair amount of radio play, although it failed to reach mainstream audiences. The following single "Skin" was also released from Saturate, although it fared worse than "Polyamorous" and received even less airplay. "Medicate" was also released as a single, to little commercial success and airplay. Saturate has gone on to sell over 300,000 copies.

Breaking Benjamin released their sophomore album, We Are Not Alone, on June 29, 2004. The album featured the single "So Cold", which reached as high as number two on the United States Billboard Mainstream Rock chart. The band had two music videos made for the song, one of which was a promotional video made for the movie Hellboy. The commercial success of "So Cold" led to We Are Not Alone achieving platinum status in late 2005. Other singles include "Sooner or Later" and "Rain" but they didn't gain much popularity. Later in 2004, the band released the So Cold EP. The EP contained live recordings of We Are Not Alone's "So Cold" (an acoustic recording), "Breakdown", and "Away", as well as studio recordings of "Blow Me Away", a song that was featured in Bungie's videogame Halo 2, and "Lady Bug", an early fan favorite of the band's.

In September 2004, drummer and founding member of Breaking Benjamin, Jeremy Hummel no loner remained a part of the band. Later, Hummel filed federal charges against the band, claiming he was not paid for songs he helped write. Hummel's lawsuit asked for more than $8 million in damages.

Their third album Phobia was released, on August 8, 2006; the album reached number two on the Billboard album charts. The first single, "The Diary of Jane" has peaked #2 on the Mainstream Rock chart.

In the fall of 2006 the band began a tour opening for Godsmack for the IV tour ? mostly towards eastern and Ohio Valley venues, and soon moving out west. Several of the shows had been canceled, or turned into Breaking Benjamin headliners due to scheduling conflicts. Many of Breaking Benjamin's tour dates from December 3rd have been rescheduled due to illness in the band's ranks. All dates were rescheduled as the band announced another headlining leg before going on a Nationwide tour with Three Days Grace and Nickelback.

On March 4, 2007, HDNet premiered a one-hour show of the Breaking Benjamin concert in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania at Stabler Arena. This is also the concert that was included on the Phobia re-release DVD in April of 2007, advertised as "The Homecoming". the song's music video comprises of the redordings of their live Stabler Arena performance of "Breath".

On April 17th, 2007, Breaking Benjamin re-released the album Phobia. The album featured a DVD with about an hour of their Stabler Arena concert footage. The band lately obtained their first number 1 billboard single with "Breath."