Staind

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27.05.2009 15:06
Slipknot performance will be broadcasted online
The Download Festival will be broadcasted live online this year. Everybody have an opportunity to watch the band’s playing on a main stage for free at the festival's official website.

24.03.2011 09:44
Linkin Park and Slash helped to release charity album for Japan
Slash and Linkin Park have taken part in the release of the charity Download To Donate album. All money from its sales will be donated to people who suffered from recent earthquakes in Japan.

Biography

Staind have lived a usuall life of American hard-rock band, going from small-club performances to wide popularity and over 15 million albums sold worldwide. The band was formed in November 1995 in Springfield, Massachusetts, by friends Aaron Lewis, Mike Mushok, Jon Wysocki and Johnny April. At first they were covering KoRn, Rage Against The Machine, Pearl Jam and Alice In Chains, and than decided to compose their own songs. Simultaneously, they started to perform in clubs. A year later, Staind self-released their debut album, titled Tormented. The band's hour of triumph came in October 1997, when Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst saw them performing at local festival and signed Staind to his Flip record label. Under Durtst's controll, the band produced their second album Dysfunction in 1999, which became a commercial breakthrough. Later, the band went on a Family Values Tour with Limp Bizkit, and Fred Durst directed several music videos for the band. Ironically, at first Durst was frenzied by the broken cross on the cover of Tormented album, and shouted at Staind members calling them Satanic band.

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