Breaking Benjamin

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风格: #另类金属　#后垃圾摇滚　#硬摇滚　#另类摇滚
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2004是Breaking Benjamin应该纪念的一年，他们的第二张专辑We Are Not Alone在当年取得了相当出色的成绩，让人对这支默默无闻的乐队刮目相看，专辑更是留下了两首上榜单曲，从此Breaking Benjamin从一支二三流的摇滚团体成为了可以说是一流的团体，Breaking Benjamin的应该我们可以简单的定义为是后grunge音乐（希望他有一个中文名字），他们的新专辑Phobia是后grunge音乐最好的教材，他是一张非常典型的后grunge专辑，每首歌曲都有着一个很黑暗的背景，歌曲的高潮是这首歌曲的制高点，上扬的歌声同时代有非常好听得旋律，所以后 grunge是一种非常电台化的音乐，专辑第一主打歌曲The Diary Of Jane在六月份开始在全美电台播出，终于登上了Billboard的单曲榜，他完全符合后grunge的特色，优美旋律，哪怕是在有些疯狂的音乐背后，到了高潮的时候，整首歌曲的光芒就被完全释放出来了，是专辑中第一值得推荐的歌曲。取名为Phobia的这张新专辑没有任何一首让人失望的歌曲，每首作品都完全证明了Breaking Benjamin的音乐实力，两年的时间中他们为新专辑创作了一系列将成为他们最佳作品的音乐，无论Breath还You，还是专辑的其他的歌曲。 Evil Angel中我除了对vocal有着不错的感觉，对于歌曲中的吉他演奏我也非常喜欢，虽然有些让我想起其他的歌曲，Until The End中你可以找到不同的节奏，更加跳跃的节奏，更加catchy的vocal。这样的专辑中自然不能少了一首抒情慢歌，确切得说是慢歌，毕竟每首歌曲都是抒情歌曲，Here We Are就是这么一首慢歌，只是欠缺了让人能注意的地方，Phobia也像许多的说唱专辑一样加上了intro和outro，并在最后送上了 acoustic版本的The Diary Of Jane，这两个版本的The Diary Of Jane有着各自让人喜欢的元素，如果听厌让人耳朵受不了的这张专辑，听听这个版本的The Diary Of Jane算是一种放松运动，毕竟他在旋律上并没有改变什么。

In late 2000, guitarist Aaron Fink and bassist Mark James Klepaski made a surprising and unexpected decision: they left Lifer, an alternative metal band that was signed to Universal and was gaining commercial acceptance. Fink and Klepaski departed Lifer (which was originally called Strangers with Candy) so that they could join forces with singer Ben Burnley and drummer Jeremy Hummel and form Breaking Benjamin. Why would Fink and Klepaski leave a band that had a contract with Universal to form a new alternative rock band that, at the time, was unsigned? According to Breaking Benjamin's press releases, the ex-members of Lifer had so much faith in Burnley's songwriting talents that they were willing to take a gamble and uproot themselves. So in late 2000, Breaking Benjamin got started with a four-man lineup that consisted of Burnley on lead vocals and rhythm guitar, Fink on lead guitar, Klepaski on bass, and Hummel on drums. Breaking Benjamin wasn't the first time that Fink had worked with Burnley; he had known the singer since high school. All four members of the band are from Wilkes-Barre, a small town in northeastern Pennsylvania. (Philadelphia and its suburbs are considered southeastern Pennsylvania.)

When Breaking Benjamin started playing around Wilkes-Barre, they were far from a carbon copy of Lifer — instead, they favored a radio-friendly post-grunge approach that was aggressive and forceful yet melodic. The band's various influences include, among others, Live, Bush, Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots, and Nirvana. Burnley has been quoted as saying that at age 14, he taught himself to play guitar by listening to Nirvana's seminal 1991 release Nevermind over and over. Korn and Tool have also been cited as influences, but unlike Korn, Breaking Benjamin doesn't have strong hip-hop leanings and isn't quite alternative metal — hard alternative rock, certainly, but not quite alternative metal. However, that isn't to say that Breaking Benjamin hasn't been influenced by certain aspects of Korn's sound. The Pennsylvanians do incorporate the sort of choppy, downtuned guitars that are quite prevalent in alterna-metal, and even though Breaking Benjamin has a lot in common with post-grunge bands like Creed, Default, Cinema8, and Third Eye Blind, they tend to be a bit heavier.

In 2001, Breaking Benjamin's Wilkes-Barre gigs caught the attention of a local radio DJ named Freddie Fabbri, who was an on-air personality at alterna-rock station WBSX-FM. Fabbri put their song "Polyamorous" in rotation, and he also financed the recording of their self-titled debut EP — which, in 2001, ended up selling about 2,000 copies in and around Wilkes-Barre. It was also in 2001 that Breaking Benjamin signed with Hollywood Records, which united the band with Ulrich Wild (a busy producer/engineer who has worked with Powerman 5000, Stabbing Westward, White Zombie, Static-X, Pantera, Slipknot, and quite a few others). Wild serves as both producer and engineer on Breaking Benjamin's first full-length album, Saturate, which Hollywood released in August 2002. We Are Not Alone followed two years later, complete with a few collaborations with Billy Corgan; the band landed a primo spot on the Evanescence tour in support of the effort, as three of the album's singles made their way onto the Billboard charts ("So Cold" and "Sooner or Later" both peaked at number two in Mainstream Rock).

Breaking Benjamin issued their third album, Phobia, in August 2006 before heading out on nationwide headlining dates with Evans Blue and Dropping Daylight in tow. The album featured new drummer Chad Szeliga and was spearheaded by the single "The Diary of Jane," which quickly heated up airwaves and helped the album debut at number two on the Billboard charts. Phobia was reissued that fall with additional bonus tracks, while the band continued touring alongside Godsmack.

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