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For over three decades, Aerosmith have been one of rock’s most revered and wildly hot bands, writing dateless songs full of raw guitars and fiercely high-energy vocals. The group first reached stardom in the 1970s with a slew of top songs, including “Dream On, “Sweet Emotion” and “Walk This Way.” During this period, Aerosmith’s style defied easy categorization, falling somewhere between bluesy hard rock-and-roll and early-era punk. In 1986, Aerosmith came back in a big way, appearing on Run D.M.C.’s cover of “Walk This Way,” a inventive coalition of hip hop and rock that has doubtless invigorated countless rap-metal acts. Hits from Aerosmith’s own albums during the ’80s include “Dude (Looks Like a Lady),” “Angel,” “Rag Doll,” “Love in an Elevator” and “Janie’s Got a Gun.” Entering the ’90s, Aerosmith’s popularity only grew as they released hit singles such as “Amazing,” “Livin’ on the Edge” and “Cryin’.” In 1998, Aerosmith contributed four tracks to the film Armageddon—starring singer Steven Tyler’s daughter Liv Tyler—including the chart topper “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing.” 2001 saw the release of Just Push Play, featuring the track “Jaded,” and, in 2004, the band issued the blues-fueled album Honkin’ on Bobo.

The foundings for Queensryche began in the early 1980s. Guitarist Michael Wilton and drummer Scott Rockenfield were members of a band called Cross+Fire, who covered songs from modern heavy metal bands such as Iron Maiden and Judas Priest. Before long Cross+Fire supplied guitarist Chris DeGarmo and bassist Eddie Jackson to their lineup, and changed their name to The Mob. The Mob, who were without a vocalist, recruited Geoff Tate to sing for them at a local rock festival. At the time, Tate was already in a group called Babylon. After Babylon separated Tate played a few concerts with The Mob, but left because he was not engaged in performing heavy metal.

In 1981, The Mob pieced sufficient monetary funds to tape a demo tape. Once again, Tate was enlisted to help. The group recorded four tunes – “Queen of the Reich,” “Nightrider,” “Blinded” and “The Lady Wore Black.” The band took their demo to various record companies and were passed up by all of them. Tate also was still committed to continuing in his then-current group, Myth.

At the urging of their new manager, The Mob revised their name to Queensryche (reportedly inspired by the first song on their demo).

The demo tape was widely spread and took a glowing critical review in Kerrang! Magazine. On the strength of the breaking buzz encompassing them, Queensryche released the demo tape as a self-titled EP on their own 206 Records label in 1983. Based on the success of the EP, Tate agreed to depart Myth and become Queensryche’s permanent lead vocalist. That same year, the group signed to EMI who re-released the EP, Queensryche, to moderate success, peaking at #81 on the Billboard charts. They had never played together live before the group was signed. When this EP was eventually released on CD several years later, a 5th track, titled “Prophecy”, was added to the tracklist; this was a song performed live by the group circa 1983 (and was included on the 1984 “Live in Tokyo” home video), and in 2003 was included on the remastered edition of The Warning as a bonus track. The track appearing on the CD release of the EP was recorded during the “Rage For Order” sessions (and is not the same version of the song which appears on the soundtrack for the movie, “The Decline of Western Civilization II: The Metal Years”).

Static-X was formed in 1994 after the breakup of Wayne Static and Ken Jay’s former band Deep Blue Dream. Static and Jay originally met at the Chicago record store where Jay worked and were introduced to one another by Smashing Pumpkins vocalist Billy Corgan (the band also shared a rehearsal space with Smashing Pumpkins for a time). Once Deep Blue Dream folded, Static and Jay moved to Los Angeles to search for new band members. There, they met bassist Tony Campos and guitarist Koichi Fukuda, completing the band’s original lineup. Originally they were meant to be called the name of their debut album but figured it was too long and went with Static-X.[citation needed]
Static-X contracted with Warner Bros. Records in early 1998, and released their debut record album, Wisconsin Death Trip, on March 23, 1999. Soon after, they released their first single “Push It”, followed by “I’m with Stupid” and “Bled for Days” in 2000. Static-X toured strictly in support of the album and twice performed on Ozzfest. In the following year a promotional EP, The Death Trip Continues, was released, however this album was not available in stores. In 2001, Wisconsin Death Trip went platinum and is, to date, Static-X’s only album to reach this success.

The band has contributed numerous tracks from this album to video game soundtracks and for other promotional applications. The song “Otsegolation” was used in the PlayStation video game, Omega Boost, where it is featured in the main menu and the final boss sequence. The song “Push It” was included in the games Street Skater 2 and Duke Nukem: Land of the Babes, both also for the PlayStation gaming console, and as downloadable content for the game Rock Band on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 gaming consoles. An instrumental of “Love Dump” was used as the entrance music for the professional wrestling tag team KroniK in World Championship Wrestling and World Wrestling Entertainment. This version was later used by Steven Richards.
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