King's X

In 1998 the group signed to the Metal Blade label and both Pinnick and Tabor issued their first solo albums (Tabor with Moonflower Lane and Pinnick with Massive Grooves, the latter issued under the alias Poundhound), followed by the group's seventh studio release overall, Tape Head. Now free to issue albums at their own pace, the group released two more albums a year apart -- 2000's Please Come Home...Mr. Bulbous and 2001's Manic Moonlight. Pinnick continued his solo career in conjunction with King's X, issuing Poundhound's second release, Pineappleskunk, the same year (as well as forming a side project with former members of Trouble, dubbed Supershine), while Tabor released two albums with the progressive metal supergroup Platypus -- 1998's When Pus Comes to Shove and 2000's Ice Cycles. In 2003, they unveiled Black Like Sunday, a collection of re-recorded songs from early in their career that had previously only existed as demos or bootlegs. Their first concert album, Live All Over the Place, arrived in 2004, followed by their 11th studio recording, Ogre Tones, in 2005. The band's debut outing for Inside Out Music, Ogre Tones reached number 30 on the Billboard Independent Albums chart. 2008's well-received XV cracked the Billboard 200 and peaked at number 12 on the Independent Albums chart. Pinnick, Tabor, and Gaskill spent the next decade focusing on their myriad solo and side projects, but regrouped as King's X for 2022's Three Sides of One, which included the anthemic "Let It Rain" and the hard-driving "Give It Up." ~ Greg Prato & James Christopher Monger

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