Staind formed on November 24, 1995 in Springfield, Massachusetts. After meeting through friends and covering KoRn, Rage Against the Machine, Pearl Jam, and Alice in Chains, among others, in smalltime clubs for a year and a half, Staind self-released their debut album, Tormented, in November 1996, citing influences Pantera and Sepultura. Until recently, the album was difficult to obtain, as only four thousand copies were originally sold. Since then, the band's official website has released the album to meet the demand from fans. During this time, Staind played a show with Limp Bizkit. When Fred Durst saw the controversial cover of the group's self produced album, Tormented, he tried to have the band kicked off the bill, but when he saw the band's live show, he changed his tone and befriended them. Durst later sang backup on the live version of Outside, which was recorded at a Family Values Tour concert in Biloxi, MS, in late October 1999. Durst went on to be one of the executive producers for Dysfunction and Break the Cycle. He also directed a few videos for the band later on, including It's Been Awhile. Dysfunction The band's big break came in October 1997 after Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst witnessed the band open up for them at a Hartford, Connecticut show, eventually signed them to his Flip record label, and co-produced their 1999 breakthrough Dysfunction with Terry Date. Although it is supposed that the band owe a lot of success to Durst, Aaron Lewis has expressed in interviews that Durst never had much of a relationship with either the singer or the band, claiming the band 'only worked on four songs with Durst and recorded the res
1 | Break Away | The Illusion Of Progress |
2 | Epiphany (Acoustic) | MTV 2 - Unplugged |
3 | Take It | Tough Enough 2 |
4 | Fill Me Up | 14 Shades of Grey |
5 | Devil (Acoustic Live) | The Illusion Of Progress |
6 | Crawl | Dysfunction |
7 | All I Want | The Illusion Of Progress |
8 | Nothing Left To Say | The Illusion Of Progress |
9 | Safe Place | Break the Cycle |
10 | Mudshuvel | Tormented |
11 | Self Destruct | Tormented |
12 | It's Been Awhile (Acoustic) | Break the Cycle |
13 | Mudshovel | The Family Values Tour 1999 |
14 | Raining Again | The Illusion Of Progress |
15 | See Thru | Tormented |
16 | Outside | Break the Cycle |
17 | Believe | The Illusion Of Progress |
18 | Falling Down | 14 Shades of Grey |
19 | Question | Tormented |
20 | Layne | 14 Shades of Grey |