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Alien Ant Farm was formed in Riverside, CA (near Los Angeles) in 1996 as an alternative metal group.

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Selected history

In the late 1990s, the band released their underground debut album, Greatest Hits. The album went on to win Best Independent Album in the L.A. Music Awards.

In 2000, after forging a friendship with rock band Papa Roach, Alien Ant Farm signed with DreamWorks SKG for their first studio album ANThology.

The band began touring in 2001. In this year, their cover of the Michael Jackson song, "Smooth Criminal", was a #1 single in Australia and New Zealand and a #3 single in the UK. Their following single "Movies" was a Top 5 hit in the UK and a Top 20 hit in New Zealand.

In May 2002, the band was involved in a bus accident while touring in Spain. The driver was killed, and lead singer Dryden Mitchell suffered a fractured C2 vertebrae, the same injury that crippled actor Christopher Reeve. Alien Ant Farm soon returned to the studio to work on their next album called truANT, which was released in 2003 produced by Stone Temple Pilots' Robert and Dean DeLeo. The video for "These Days", the first single from the album, was filmed on top of a nearby building during the Red Carpet at 2003 BET Awards. "Glow" was a mainstream radio success, achieving long lasting Top 20 success in New Zealand. Two months after this album was released, their record label closed its doors.

In October 2003, guitarist Terry Corso split with the band citing "irreconcilable differences". Soon after, he joined Powerman 5000. Joe Hill was named the new guitarist in 2005 (formerly in a band called Spiderworks).

In 2004 the band waited in purgatory before Geffen decided to allow them to record another album (after Universal Music bought DreamWorks and assigned the band to its Geffen Records label).

In 2005, the band recorded with producer Jim Wirt (who recorded their independent release Greatest Hits) and planned to release the album during the summer of 2005. Geffen decided not to put the album out afterall. So the band hit the road and made bootleg copies of their music (because the record label would not let them have the rights to it) and made it available to all of their fans. The album was coined "3rd Draft" by fans.

In late 2005, Geffen finally agreed to let the band release the album on another Universal label, Universal Music Enterprises (its catalogue division). On May 4th, 2006, information began showing up on music store websites and release calendars about an upcoming release entitled Up In The Attic. This appears to be the official title for the new album which is currently set for a July 18th release through New Door/UMe. The band is also set to release a DVD called BUSted: The Definitive DVD that same day. The first single from Up In The Attic is set to be "Forgive And Forget", which goes for adds on June 5th. They are also planning to shoot a video for it, as well as for the songs Around The Block and She's Only Evil, which were actually songs from the self-released 3rd Draft album. On May 30, 2006 the new album Up In The Attic was released digitally on iTunes.

In April 2006, Tye Zamora left the band and decided to go to college. He was replaced by Alex Barreto (formerly in hardcore bands Chain of Strenth, Hard Stance, Inside Out).

On June 29th, 2006 the band performed on G4's Attack of the Show.

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