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Background information

<tr><td>Origin</td><td colspan="2">Image:Flag of the United States.svg Chicago, Illinois</td></tr><tr><td>Genre(s)</td><td colspan="2">Industrial Metal
Alternative Rock</td></tr><tr><td>Years active</td><td colspan="2">1985 – 2002</td></tr><tr><td style="padding-right: 1em;">Label(s)</td><td colspan="2">Columbia Records
Koch Records
Sony Records</td></tr><tr><td>Website</td><td colspan="2">stabbingwestward.com</td></tr><tr><th style="background: #b0c4de;" colspan="3">Members</th></tr><tr><td style="text-align: center;" colspan="3">Christopher Hall
Walter Flakus</td></tr>

Stabbing Westward was an American industrial rock and alternative rock band composed of Christopher Hall, Walter Flakus, Stuart Zechman, Jim Sellers and David Suycott. They formed in 1985 (1985 in music) in Chicago, Illinois and began recording in the 1990s. Their major label debut was Ungod. Sales were sluggish but Stabbing Westward built a solid fanbase by relentless touring with the likes of Sponge, KISS and The Sex Pistols. In 1996, their Wither Blister Burn & Peel LP became a moderate success, landing them their first certified gold album, aided by the singles "Shame" and "What Do I Have to Do?" (see 1996 in music).

The follow-up was Darkest Days. It failed to sell as well as its predecessor, and the band was dropped by Columbia Records. Meanwhile they continued to tour with bands like Placebo, The Cult, Monster Magnet, and Depeche Mode, while playing numerous summer festivals. They relocated to Los Angeles and signed to Koch Records, issuing Stabbing Westward in 2001.
Before a fifth LP could be recorded, Stabbing Westward formally announced that the band had
broken up on February 9th, 2002. (2002 in music).

Since then, lead singer Hall has formed the L.A. based band The Dreaming.

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[edit] Members

1992

  • Christopher Hall - vocals, guitar
  • Walter Flakus - keyboard
  • Chris Vrenna - drums

1993-1995

  • Christopher Hall - vocals, guitar
  • Walter Flakus - keyboard, backing vocals
  • Stuart Zechman - guitar
  • Jim Sellers - bass
  • David Suycott - drums

1995-1999

  • Christopher Hall - vocals, guitar
  • Walter Flakus - keyboard, guitar, backing vocals
  • Mark Eliopulos - guitar, backing vocals
  • Jim Sellers - bass
  • Andy Kubiszewski - drums, guitar, keyboard, backing vocals

1999-2002

  • Christopher Hall - vocals, guitar
  • Walter Flakus - guitar, keyboard, backing vocals
  • Derrek Hawkins- guitar, backing vocals
  • Jim Sellers - bass
  • Andy Kubiszewski - drums, guitar, keyboard

[edit] Discography

Year Title Label
1992 Iwo Jimma EP
1993 Ungod Columbia
1996 Wither Blister Burn & Peel Columbia
1998 Darkest Days Columbia
2001 Stabbing Westward Koch
2003 The Essential Stabbing Westward Sony
2003 What Do I Have to Do? Sony

[edit] Singles

Year Song US Hot 100 U.S. Modern Rock U.S. Main- stream Rock Album
1994 "Lies" - - - Ungod
1994 "Nothing" - - - Ungod
1996 "What Do I Have To Do?" - 11 7 Wither Blister Burn & Peel
1996 "Shame" - 14 7 Wither Blister Burn & Peel
1998 "Sometimes It Hurts" - 39 20 Darkest Days
1998 "Save Yourself" - 20 4 Darkest Days
1999 "Haunting Me" - 34 19 Darkest Days
2001 "So Far Away" - 21 23 Stabbing Westward

[edit] Trivia

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  • The first Stabbing Westward song to appear on a CD was the 1990 demo version of "Violent Mood Swings". The 1992 album is named Cyberflesh Conspiracy.
  • The anime' movie, Tekken: The Motion Picture, an adaptation of the popular video game series, featured the song "Save Yourself" from the Darkest Days album.
  • The song "Ungod", from the album of the same name, shares an identical guitar riff with the song "Hey Man, Nice Shot", arguably Filter's most widely recognised release. Both bands had utilised the talents of Stuart Zechman, the guitarist who wrote the riff, and agreed to forego any legal actions against each other.
  • Stabbing Westward was one of many bands to be the subject of a Wesley Willis song.
  • A remix of the song "Waking Up Beside You" can be heard in various scenes in the movie, The Crow: Salvation.
  • Frontman Christopher Hall became the vocalist originally based upon a coin toss between himself and Walter Flakus.
  • "Violent Mood Swings", from the album Ungod, was remixed and played in the Kevin Smith movie, Clerks.
  • The songs "Lies", "Lost", and "Can't Happen Here", from the Ungod album, were present in the movie Mortal Kombat. However, because the band did not think the movie would do well in theaters, they opted not to allow the songs on the official soundtrack. A marketing mistake, as the album, and the movie, went on to become quite popular.
  • The song "What Do I Have To Do?" was featured in the 1997 movie, Masterminds, as the opening sequence to the film, but was not featured on the soundtrack.
  • An acoustic set was recorded on April 3, 1999 at the radio station KNDD 107.7 The End in Washington State entitled The End Sessions. The set list is as follows (in order):
Waking Up Beside You
Shame
Drowning
Haunting Me
What Do I Have To Do?
  • Acoustic versions of "So Far Away" and "Wasted" were also featured on a special bonus disk available with the "Stabbing Westward" album from Best Buy as a limited release in 2001.
  • A live acoustic set, recorded on radio station Q101's "Mancow's Morning Madhouse", included the songs, "What Do I Have To Do?" and "Sometimes It Hurts".
  • Stabbing Westward's song, "Torn Apart", was also featured on the Spawn soundtrack album, remixed by Wink.
  • When they were asked to do a cover of something that "didn't sound like them", Stabbing Westward covered the song "Top of the World" by The Carpenters.
  • Stabbing Westward's song "What do I Have To Do?" was featured in the first season finale of the hit WB television series, Smallville, during the opening sequence. The song plays in the background as Lex welcomes his father, Lionel, to the plant he is overseeing and learns that his father is unexpectedly closing the plant down.

[edit] External links

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