Breaking Benjamin Albums - Complete Discography Of The Band, Members, And 7 Other Facts

Breaking Benjamin is an American rock band notable for its unique music style. At its peak, it had a total of five members. After the band’s hiatus, it evolved excluding all the original member except one. The platinum selling band

The bands rise to fame came at the cost of hard work, talented singing and commitment to producing good music.

How did the band start, its albums, why did it split and where is the band are common questions we’d love to have answers to.

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How Was Breaking Benjamin Formed

The band was formed in 1999 by Benjamin Burnley and Jeremy Hummel. The two later lined up other artist to be part of the band.

While Burnley was the lead singer of the band, Hummel played drums. The original lineup of the band was made of Aaron Fink, and Mark Klepaski alongside Burnley and Hummel.

They were together for some years before the band went on hiatus. The original lineup released tgwo albums, Saturate and We Are Not Alone.

Szeliga replaced Hummel and with him, the band released Phobia and Dear Agony.

Breaking Benjamin Albums And Popular Songs

To date the band has 6 albums to its credit. Its debute album, Saturate camre out in 2002 and the sixth, embers came out in 2018. Here is a list of their albums:

Saturate 2002

We Are Not Alone 2004

Phobia 2006

Dear Agony 2009

Dark Before Dawn 2015

Ember 2018

Aurora 2020

Among there songs some stand out to fans and admirers. These include Polyamorous, I Will Not Bow, Angels Fall, Blow Me Away, Ashes of Eden among many.

The success of the band earned them two gold certification, three RIAA platinum records and several certified singles.

Their concert for 2020 to promote the Aurora collection was affected by the Covid 19 outbreak.

7 Other Interesting Facts You Should Know About Breaking Benjamin

1. How Breaking Benjamin Came About Its Name

Benjamin Burnley broke a microphone while singing in a previous band. ‘Thanks to Benjamin for breaking my fucking mic’ exclaimed its owner.

From this experience, Benjamin got the moniker for hiks band. Though he sang for Breaking Benjamin, a 1998 band before forming the present lineup, it was not the same band as the one formed in 1999.

Aaron was part of the previous band but the band broke up after Burnley moved to California.

Burnley had promotional stickers with the name of Breaking Benjamin and decided to maintain the name with Paln 9. Besides, he returned to California with Hummel the drummer.

The new band reclaimed the Breaking Benjamin name.

2. Benjamin Burnley’s Illness

In 2010, while on the Dark Horse Tour of the band, Burnley fell sick. Since he was unable to support the band, it went on hiatus.

Rumors surface to the effect that the band had broken up. Burnley’s statement did not affirm the rumors. He stated that the band had not broken up.

3. Benjamin Burnley Fires Bandmates Through Email

The 2010 hiatus showed that there were cracks in the band’s walls. When Hollywood Records made the band produce master recordings for them, the remaining band members went ahead with the request.

Fink and Klepaski were offered $100,000 for the release of a new version of the hit song Blow Away. Burnley felt they did it behind his back. He fired the two via email and also demanded a compensation fee of $250 000.

4. How Did Burnley Get The Right To Using The Breaking Benjamin Name?

Following the law suit against his former band mates, Burnley continued using the name.

After settling their dispute in arbitration, Szeliga left the band. Szeliga left three days after Burnley’s announcement. He claimed it was due to creative differences that he was leaving.

5. Breaking Benjamin Logo

The band has a logo with a Celtic knot design. The knots are made from four intertwining ‘B’s”.

Members of the band have tattoos of the logo on different parts of their bodies. Fink, Burnley, klepaski have tattoos of it on their left wrist while Szeliga has it on his right wrist.

6. Who Are Its current Members

The band formed a new lineup with only Burnley as an original member. In 2014, the new lineup became active.

Its members are Burnley, Jasen Rauch, Keith Wallen, Aaron Bruch, and Saun Foist. While the band suffered the lack of backing vocals during performance, they chose their next lineup based on ability of singers.

Bruch and Wallen provide backup on stage. Rauch plays the third guitar. Foist uses the Roland V-kit drums to to make their sounds unique during live performance.

7. Burnley Recorded And Produced Dark Before Dawn

He has written the songs for the band. In most cases he is the closest to the band’s consistency and final outlook.

Its nothing new to produce the bands material. Burnley recorded and put his name to the production of the band’s album, Dark Before Dawn.

He made official. The album reached no. 1 on the rock album chart on iTunes. He got his determination from battling an undisclosed diagnosis.

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