"Elegantly Wasted Elegantly Wasted is the tenth studio album by Australian rock band INXS. It was released in April 1997, and is the final album recorded with lead singer Michael Hutchence before his death in November that same year. The band had spent April 1996 rehearsing in London, and moved over to Vancouver to record with producer Bruce Fairbairn in December that year. Production of the album was completed by Hutchence and songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Andrew Farriss in Spain by February 1997. Two songs that did not make the final cut of the album were included on the ""Bang the"
"""Osmose NoisyMotions"", a two-and-a-half hour DVD featuring bands such as Immortal, Dark Tranquility and Absu. Abominator was also booked to play in the Bloodlust 2004 festival, but Max Krieg unexpectedly left the band and the country, leaving Abominator without a vocalist and forcing them to cancel all remaining shows. They were also released by Osmose in 2004 and soon switched labels, signing a two album deal with the Displeased label, and released ""The Eternal Conflagration"" in May 2006. Abominator (band) Abominator is an Australian black/death metal band formed in Melbourne, Australia, in 1994. Their lyrics commonly deal with war and"
"group in 2004 and was replaced by Connie Mitchell (Feyonce), who later became known as the lead singer of Sneaky Sound System. Pinky Beecroft moved to Melbourne to get away from the band and to deal with drug-related health problems. The band's last album, ""On Ice"", was released the same year and was met with a relatively muted response and the band decided to break up the following year. Since the split, various band members have since moved on to other projects: Machine Gun Fellatio Machine Gun Fellatio was an Australian alternative rock band, formed in 1997. They were well"
"following the termination of their contract with Sony. The band joined , a record label formed by their manager, John Watson. Silverchair returned to recording in June 2001, and released ""Diorama"" in 2002. Lead singer Daniel Johns succumbed to reactive arthritis while the band were touring to promote the album, and after the 2002 ARIA Awards the band announced an indefinite hiatus. Silverchair reunited after Wave Aid in 2005, and released ""Young Modern"" in 2007. Silverchair discography The discography of Silverchair, an Australian alternative rock band, consists of five studio albums, twenty-two singles, two live albums, two best of albums,"
"certified gold by the Australia Record Industry Association, 16 years after its release. Lead singer Jay Whalley announced on 26 February 2013 that the group was forced to cancel its recent tour after surgeons discovered and removed a pig tapeworm egg from his brain. Drummer Gordon ""Gordy"" Foreman broke his arm in multiple places after stage diving during a performance in 2015 and spent about 18 months recovering. The band continued to play live with Kye Smith (of Local Resident Failure) filling in on drums. Smith had previously paid tribute to Frenzal Rhomb as part of his ""5 Minute Drum"
"two more times (coast to coast) before finally wrapping up the tour in late 2007. ""AllMusic""'s Matt Collar rated ""Switch"" three stars out of five. He began the review negatively, with the claim ""For all intents and purposes, the death of Australian rock band INXS' lead singer, Michael Hutchence, in 1997 ended the band's career."" He argued that without Hutchence, there was little point in the band continuing, and criticised their use of ""Rockstar: INXS"", arguing ""all the band was looking for was a relatively good-looking, relatively tuneful young man who could evince some cocksure rock smarminess."" Describing Hutchence as"
"Confession (band) Confession was an Australian metalcore band from Melbourne, Victoria. The band was formed in 2008 by frontman Michael Crafter, who is best known as the former lead vocalist of metalcore bands I Killed the Prom Queen, Carpathian and Bury Your Dead. They have released one EP entitled ""Can't Live, Can't Breathe"", and three albums: ""Cancer"", ""The Long Way Home"" and ""Life And Death"" on Resist Records. Confession was started by Michael Crafter in 2008, following his Australian farewell tour with I Killed the Prom Queen. The first member that Crafter enlisted for his new band was guitarist Dan"
"material from their three albums. On 15 May 2012 The Amenta released a five-track EP, ""Chokehold"". In August 2012, the band's website announced that a new full-length album, ""Flesh Is Heir"", was forthcoming. The group was due to tour Europe in November and December of that year with Obituary, Macabre and Psycroptic. On 20 October 2013, The Amenta announced that they would cease from performing live, and were going on an indefinite hiatus. The Amenta The Amenta are an Australian metal band formed in 1997 as Crucible of Agony. By 2002 the line-up was Cesium 137 (aka Mark Bevan) on"
"in Finland. This prompted the band to resume touring in Scandinavia, and two years later they returned to the studio to record their next album, ""Kramgoa Låtar 1997"". However, just as the band was putting the finishing touches on the album, long-time drummer Anders Erixon died suddenly on August 4, 1997, at 53 years old. At the time of his death, he had completed all of the drum tracks for the new album, and was on a brief holiday before touring was to start. Singer Christer Sjögren would later iterate that Erixon was the core of the band, keeping them"
"thrash band Vaticide and now plays in a Brisbane rock and metal band. Dakk McDonald runs a CD/DVD duplication business. Of the band's early guitarists, Dale Fletcher died from a brain haemmorhage in January 2005, Jason Hansen builds handmade guitars and Dale Corney sings for a Broken Hill metal band called Soulforge. Dungeon (band) Dungeon was a melodic power metal/thrash metal band based in Sydney, Australia, considered by some as one of Australia's leading metal bands. The group existed from 1989 to 2005, released six full-length albums, and toured heavily both throughout Australia and internationally. The band was formed in"
"Jessica Michalik Jessica Anna Michalik (7 January 1985 – 26 January 2001) was an Australian teenage girl from Dee Why, Sydney who died as a result of asphyxiation five days after being crushed in a mosh pit during the 2001 Big Day Out music festival during a performance by nu metal band Limp Bizkit. The Coroner's Court of New South Wales findings into her death criticized the crowd control measures in use at the time, and also criticized Limp Bizkit lead singer Fred Durst for ""alarming and inflammatory"" comments during the rescue effort. Michalik's family and best friend Liza Ryan"
"Damaged (band) Damaged was an Australian deathgrind band from Ballarat, Victoria, active from 1989 to 2004. The band was formed by drummer Matt ""Skitz"" Sanders. Mat Silcock and Chris Hill were the two original guitarists, with bass player Jason Parker and singer James Ludbrook. The band's first demo, ""The Art of Destroying Life"", appeared in 1992; the next year they released their first album, ""Do Not Spit"", Black Hole Records. In 1994 Damaged toured with Cannibal Corpse. Silcock left Damaged in 1996, and around the same time, due to a dispute with label Black Hole Records, Damaged disbanded. Hill joined"
"this opportunity to reactivate Narraka under a new moniker, Heloisa! Brain Dead however, played their last gig ever in Pulau Pinang in 1995 with original line-up as an honour or 'farewell show' to their loyal fans. After the demise of Brain Dead, Hashim joined Sil Khannaz as bassist, Malik hang off his guitar, while Ein giving his full demonic force to Heloisa, start to play local gigs and soon in late 1996, Nebiula Productions, another Malaysian extreme metal label, offered them for an album and the result is their debut full length, 'Mirror of Trinity' in 1997. When local organizers"
"The Amenta The Amenta are an Australian metal band formed in 1997 as Crucible of Agony. By 2002 the line-up was Cesium 137 (aka Mark Bevan) on lead vocals, Diazanon (Dave Haley) on drums, Ethion (Erik Miehs) on guitar, Endrin (Nathan Jenkins) on bass guitar and Chlordane (Timothy Pope) on keyboards. In 2009 the line-up had Miehs and Pope joined by Cain Cressall on vocals, Dan Quinlan on bass guitar and Robin Stone on drums. The group has issued three studio albums, ""Occasus"" (2004), ""n0n"" (2008), and ""Flesh Is Heir"" (2013). The Amenta originally formed in Baulkam Hills, a Sydney"
"line-ups, Skyhooks continued until they disbanded on 8 June 1980; they briefly reformed in 1983, 1984, 1990 and 1994. In 1992, Skyhooks were inducted into the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Hall of Fame. Lead singer, Strachan died on 29 August 2001, aged 49, in a helicopter crash while solo piloting. Their original lead singer, Steve Hill, died in October 2005, aged 52, of liver cancer. In 2011, the Skyhooks album ""Living in the 70s"" was added to the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia's Sounds of Australia registry. Greg Macainsh and Imants ""Freddie"" Strauks both attended Norwood High"
"Melbourne band Discordia; Sanders toured Europe as drummer with Sadistik Exekution and played in Abramelin. The split only lasted a short time, since the band was approached by US label Rotten Records and offered a five album deal. Reforming without Silcock, Damaged released ""Token Remedies Research"" in 1997 and finished the year with a performance at the Metal For The Brain festival. Early the following year, the band toured Australia with Entombed but the reunion was almost cut short when Ludbrook was fired in the middle of a tour a few months later. Brendan Birge from the Melbourne death metal"
"was unable to keep up with their more technical direction. He was soon replaced by Koester's friend, Jake Green, of Melbournes's The Ocularis Infernum. On 19 December 2007, the band was on the Christmas Carnage tour supporting American band All Shall Perish. At around 7 am, The Red Shore's minibus veered off of the Pacific Highway just north of Coffs Harbour. The accident killed singer Damien Morris and driver/merchandiser Andy Milner. In the following days, fans flooded the band's MySpace page with tributes to the two. Morris was 27 at the time of his death, making him a member of"
"crowd control. Jessica Michalik Jessica Anna Michalik (7 January 1985 – 26 January 2001) was an Australian teenage girl from Dee Why, Sydney who died as a result of asphyxiation five days after being crushed in a mosh pit during the 2001 Big Day Out music festival during a performance by nu metal band Limp Bizkit. The Coroner's Court of New South Wales findings into her death criticized the crowd control measures in use at the time, and also criticized Limp Bizkit lead singer Fred Durst for ""alarming and inflammatory"" comments during the rescue effort. Michalik's family and best friend"
"The album was released on 20 June 2014. On 7 October 2015 Crafter announced his retirement from the band and music. A farewell-tour in Australia took place in January 2016. Confession (band) Confession was an Australian metalcore band from Melbourne, Victoria. The band was formed in 2008 by frontman Michael Crafter, who is best known as the former lead vocalist of metalcore bands I Killed the Prom Queen, Carpathian and Bury Your Dead. They have released one EP entitled ""Can't Live, Can't Breathe"", and three albums: ""Cancer"", ""The Long Way Home"" and ""Life And Death"" on Resist Records. Confession was"
"Records label to achieve No. 1 status. The Headless Chickens split up soon after the release of ""Greedy"". In 2002 Flying Nun Records released a 2CD best-of compilation named ""ChickensHits"". In July 2008 it was announced that the band would reform to play the Homebake Festival in Sydney, Australia on 6 December. The line-up would feature both Chris Matthews and Fiona McDonald. They played further concerts in Australia and New Zealand and were scheduled to play at the Auckland Big Day Out in January 2009. On 27 January 2018, bassist Grant Fell died of cancer at the age of 56."
"suffered serious health concerns that forced him to cease his singing career. Campbell and Maurer reformed Mortal Sin once again in 1996, reuniting with Eftichiou and Carwana and with Anthony Hoffman from Campbell's band Grungeon also on guitar. Carwana departed after one live show and was replaced by Troy Scerri. Scerri had played in a long list of bands throughout the late 80s and early 90s, including White Trash (with Campbell), Death Mission and This Thing. This version of the band released the EP ""Revolution of the Mind"" and launched the first full-scale Australian tour that Mortal Sin had ever"
"The Living End The Living End are an Australian punk rock band, which formed in 1994. Since 2002 the line up consists of Chris Cheney (vocals, guitar), Scott Owen (double bass, vocals) and Andy Strachan (drums). The band rose to fame in 1997 after the release of their double A-sided single, ""Second Solution"" / ""Prisoner of Society"", which peaked at No. 4 on the ARIA Singles Chart. They have released six studio albums and two reached the No. 1 spot on the ARIA Albums Chart: self-titled album (12 October 1998) and ""State of Emergency"" (4 February 2006). They have also"
"Australia's largest Music Conference. 2016 saw them sign to Premier Artists for bookings in Australia/NZ. On 11 January 2017 Sydonia announced its disbanding via a post on their Official Facebook Page. Sydonia Sydonia was an alternative rock/metal band formed in 1997 in Melbourne, Victoria. The band consisted of Dana Roskvist, Adam Murray, Sean Bailey and Sam Haycroft, who was replaced by Ant Connelly, after he left to pursue other ventures. The band has released 4 EPs (Sojourn, I'd Say No, Subordinate, (Man)ipulate), the full-length album ""Given To Destroyers"" through MGM and Reality Kicks through MGM as well. Several singles have"
"the band as teen idols, but as pressures mounted lead guitarist Rick Morrison was forced to quit after passing out on stage during a concert in June, suffering a collapsed lung. He was ordered to give up performing and was replaced by Tony Summers (ex-Johnny Young's Kompany). Meanwhile concerts and tours continued, with the group playing up to fifteen shows per week. A tour of New South Wales in July included some of the last pop shows staged at the Sydney Stadium on 30 July, and at Sydney Trocadero ballroom (both later demolished). Also in July, they made it to"
"41 in US. On 22 November 1997, Michael Hutchence was found dead in his Sydney Ritz-Carlton hotel room. On 6 February 1998, New South Wales State Coroner Derrick Hand presented his report, which ruled that Hutchence's death was a suicide while depressed and under the influence of drugs and alcohol. Despite the official coroner's report, there was continued speculation that Hutchence's death was accidental. After Hutchence's death, INXS did not perform publicly for almost a year, and then only made a few one-off performances with different guest singers until 2000. On 28 November 1998, they played at the Mushroom 25"
"Heaven (Australian band) Heaven was a heavy metal band from Sydney, Australia that formed in 1980. The band recorded three albums and toured throughout the United States during the 1980s. The group's original style was similar to that of AC/DC but in later years went in a more commercial heavy metal direction along the lines of Judas Priest. The band was originally formed in Adelaide under the name Fat Lip, which featured Scottish-born Allan Fryer, bassist Laurie Marlow, and drummer Joe Turtur. Soon after the band moved to Sydney, AC/DC singer Bon Scott died in London and some unsubstantiated reports"
"Australia in a tit for tat. The band had played AC/DC's ""Thunderstruck"" over the top of Jackie O's effort to explain her late appearance to the audience as the delay caused a further cut into the band's set time. Studio albums Frenzal Rhomb Frenzal Rhomb is an Australian punk rock band that formed in 1992, with Jason Whalley on lead vocals and rhythm guitar during this entire period. In 1996, Lindsay McDougall joined the line-up on lead guitar and backing vocals. Three of the group's albums have entered the top 20 on the ARIA Albums Chart: ""A Man's Not a"
"Benjow, Dave Wiffler, Dave Lewis, Lillybub, and others, The Bedridden performed sporadic shows in Adelaide and Melbourne, perhaps every few months until late 2001. March 2002 saw the release of a new Bedridden single, ""Inland Sea"", which was to herald a fourth album. The fourth album never materialised (although most of it eventually appeared as ""Gorilla Gorilla Gorilla"" in 2013), due to the tragic and untimely death of Baterz at age 33. Baterz was a haemophiliac and, as a young teen, was diagnosed with HIV which he had contracted via a contaminated blood transfusion. In 2002, his condition worsened and"
"Me"" peaked at No. 69 while the fourth, ""Cars and Planes"" failed to chart. The group had become a popular band on the Australian touring circuit. Their activities were curtailed in April 1989 when a hit-and-run car accident left Loneragan with a broken neck, multiple cuts, bruises and concussion. He spent several months recuperating in hospital. Initially fellow band members intended to continue whilst Loneragan recovered, however the group disbanded as various members left to join other local groups. Swan toured with the James Freud's band and with MacKay performed in Absent Friends. In early 1997 Machinations, with Loneragan, reconvened"
"Top 50 and on 22 November 1997, a few months after the release of the band's tenth studio album ""Elegantly Wasted"", lead singer Michael Hutchence was found dead in a Sydney hotel room. Crowded House released two further albums, 1991's ""Woodface"" and 1994's ""Together Alone"", which were both successful internationally, but disbanded in 1996 after playing their 'Farewell to the World' concert at the steps of the Sydney Opera House. Their greatest hits compilation album ""Recurring Dream"", released in 1996, debuted at number one in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom and reached the Top 20 in several European"
"album entitled ""The Ugly Americans in Australia"" was issued, which documented their 1987 tour of Melbourne, Australia. (Additional performances from a date in Bullhead City, Arizona, were also included.) Stan Ridgway, Andy Prieboy and Marc Moreland all embarked on solo careers throughout the 1990s and 2000s. Joe Nanini released an EP under the name Sienna Nanini-Bohica in 1996. Two former members died within a few years of each other in the early 2000s; Joe Nanini died of a brain hemorrhage on December 4, 2000, and Marc Moreland died of kidney and liver failure on March 13, 2002. On July 18,"
"of the Sydney brutal death metal band Neuropath, and two members of the Newcastle black metal act Empery of Thorns, guitarist Darael and keyboards-player Shaun all being recruited. Incubus then left shortly afterwards, to be replaced by another ex-Neuropath member, Ali Chamas. This line-up remained together for almost two years. At the end of 1997 the band played on the Sydney leg of an Australian tour by Cradle of Filth and work began on a second album. Several tracks were eventually recorded and one, ""Black Earth"", later appeared on the 1999 compilation album ""Under the Southern Cross"", from Sydney label"
"they supported Rieu on the rescheduled Australian tour. ""I'll Never Find Another You"" was added to the National Film and Sound Archive of the Sounds of Australia registry in 2011. ""The Seekers' Golden Jubilee Tour"" kicked off 2013 in May, celebrating fifty years since the group had formed in December 1962. Performing in Sydney, Brisbane, Newcastle and Melbourne, they received rave reviews to sold-out audiences. However, Judith Durham suffered a brain hemorrhage after their first concert in Melbourne. The rest of the Australian tour and later-to-be-staged UK tour were postponed; the former continued in November, while the UK tour took"