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Break The Cycle

by Staind

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Break the Cycle is the third studio album from American hard rock band Staind, released on May 22, 2001. It is Staind's most successful album to date, and was the album that broke them into the mainstream. It was a huge international success for the band, as it spent 3 weeks at the number 1 position in the U.S. album charts and many weeks in the top 10 album charts of The Billboard 200, the UK and New Zealand. It sold 4 million copies in 2001. The album went 5x platinum by the RIAA.

A total of 5 singles were released from this album, "It's Been Awhile", "Fade", "Outside", "For You" and "Epiphany", all of which did reasonably well. There were videos made for each of these songs (some of which can be found on Staind's MTV Unplugged DVD). The first four singles had varying degrees of success in the UK, "It's Been Awhile" charting the highest of the four released in both countries. The album also includes a track called "Waste" dedicated to two teenage fans who committed suicide. While a heavy and aggressive alternative metal/nu metal album, Break the Cycle shows the band starting to focus more on their post-grunge sound which would play a bigger part on the bands future albums. This is evident in the album's hit "It's Been Awhile" and other songs on the album.

There is also a bonus track on the album. In the U.S., the bonus track is an acoustic version of "It's Been Awhile". However on the Australian and European editions, the bonus track is a live acoustic version of "Outside", performed with Fred Durst in Biloxi, Mississippi on the Family Values Tour 1999.

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released May 22, 2001

Aaron Lewis – Lead vocals, Rhythm Guitar
Mike Mushok – Lead guitar
Johnny April – Bass
Jon Wysocki – Drums

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