u/dreadwraithe

I've been very interested in music stats recently, and I was just curious to see how popular Breaking Benjamin is over in Europe, Asia, and Australia. I was going through some of my other favorite bands history, like Bush and Alice in Chains, and I learned all three bands toured together years ago with Bush as a special guest and Alice in Chains "co-headlining" with BB. I was talking to my friends in Europe and Asia about alt-rock, and they didn't know who Breaking Ben was but knew who the other aforementioned bands were which is strange because I've always thought BB were a pretty popular band? I don't know. What do you guys think?

Title. I’m a little confused because all the sites are saying something different

With 2026 coming to a close in a couple months and with bush finishing out the rest of their shows in October, what do we think is going to happen next year? Any predictions?

With post-grunge, grunge, and alt in general on the rise again, I've noticed a lot of 90s-00s bands like Bush, Puddle of Mudd, CREED, NICKELBACK, 3 Doors Down, etc. have all started receiving some positive revisionism. However, I don't see too many people mention Shinedown, despite Shinedown literally headlining massive arenas (they headlined MSG with Bush) and having insane sales and hits this late into their career. I don't really see anyone make fun of Shinedown to the extent all the aforementioned bands were. In fact, I don't see anyone really mention them at all. Some people I know that are into the alt scene don't even know them at all. Their highest streamed song doesn't reach the streaming heights that most of these other bands have. It's like they're being left out of the convo, but they are selling out the biggest venues in their career. Is it because they are primarily an American phenomenon and that hardly anyone overseas really knows them? I mean my friends overseas know Bush and Creed but have never heard of Shinedown.

But some of these same bands have opened for Shinedown. What did Shinedown do that other bands have failed to do?

I notice the lyrics are a bit different than the original, but Gavin's voice sounds the same as it was in the 90s. Did they find an old recording/variant of Swallowed and work on that or did Gavin rerecord Swallowed? Does anyone know?

Sometimes when I'm on call with someone on Discord, I press the mute button on the bottom of my left earcup so the red LED on the mic is shown. However, my friends say that they can still hear me, but other times they can't when the red LED is shown for both that I've mentioned. Sometimes, I can't even hear my friends or they can't even hear me on my headset when I'm unmuted. It was only after I clicked the GameDAC did it start working more often. I've rebooted my headset numerous times. I've even restarted my PC. I've also gone in to check the SonarGG software. This has still been an annoying issue.

It wasn't always an issue as well. Has anyone else had this specific issue before, or am I doing something that's making my headset act this way?

(In the middle of Peter and Gavin is Jose Mangin, the lead for SiriusXM Octane and Liquid Metal)

So is that whole album. That's it. That's the post.

For me, I'm currently into Type O Negative, Cattle Decapitation, Highly Suspect, Barns Courtney, Alice in Chain, Rammstein, and some others. What about you guys?

Didn't Gavin say somewhere that next year was primarily going to be festival season? If so, what festivals do you guys think should Bush play?

I think they should do Summer Sonic and go back to Graspop Metal Meeting. They should also do Roskilde and Fuji Rocks.

Didn't Gavin say that they were working on getting out into Japan more? Do you think they could headline other Asian countries like the Philippines, South Korea, maybe even India? What about the middle east, after everything cools down (hopefully)

I'll be honest, I first heard of this band only because they won over Deftones and Sleep Token at the Grammies. I've never heard of them before and I was confused on how they won a metal award because they aren't metal.

That being said, this band fucking rips. Look Out for Me was the first track from them I've heard, and I really love the bouncy riffs. It reminds me of Rage Against the Machine if they were synth. But the track that I heard today, which is Sole, that made me a fan. The build-up was so energizing and exciting that I've had it on loop today. This band is great!

I know the Cathedral stage is a side stage for legacy artists, but as I'm looking online it looks a little bit bigger than Temple? I also know they got a lot of heavy hitters on that stage but I don't know how they book those artists

I’d personally want to see more metalcore and alt metal like Deftones, Bring me the Horizon, and possibly some thrash like Slayer. Gavin has the voice for creeping death by Metallica imo