Alien Ant Farm
Nov 7, 2011
Southern California natives, Alien Ant Farm, started their music career in 2001 with ANThology, which was released on Papa Roach's New Noize imprint on DreamWorks Records. Thanks to the #1 single, "Smooth Criminal," the album reached double-Platinum status. 2003's truANT, produced by Stone Temple Pilots' Dean and Robert DeLeo, featured the Top 25 and "Glow" hit #1 on charts outside the U.S. despite the imminent folding of its record label. The band has toured all over the world with Linkin Park, Metallica, 311, and Papa Roach, and has sold over 3.5 million records worldwide.
More recently, the band announced their new deal with the Executive Music Group label via Fontana/Universal. The original line-up--Dryden Mitchell (lead vocals), Mike Cosgrove (drums), Terry Corso (guitar), Tye Zamora (bass)--will start to work on their fourth album in November and is looking to release it Spring 2012. It'll be their first release since 2006's Up In The Attic, which spawned the hit single "Forgive And Forget," and the first with the original line-up since 2003.
Alien Ant Farm recently wrapped up their 60-date U.S. "ANTicipation Tour," which had the band performing in front of capacity crowds at every stop. It was their first headlining tour-on their own new bus--since the fatal 2002 bus crash that killed the band's driver and left singer Dryden Mitchell with a broken vertebrae. Lots more touring is already on tap for 2012.
