Most of these bands had members that were around 20, give or take a few years, and often you tend to grow at that age, if you have gifted talents. So did Deftones, Taproot to an extent, and others.
Korn did, but Limp Bizkit experienced a second album leap in the same way as Incubus, though the former sold a ridiculous amount of albums. Not every band of this genre got off to a fast start, of course. It’s a huge difference what just two years can have on musicians, especially when the band was as young as Incubus was at the time. S.C.I.E.N.C.E., however, is a quantum leap in musical and songwriting quality. The band had just graduated high school when this album was released, so they were more of a product of their influences in 1995. In fact, many early reviews of that album compared them to something akin to a RHCP knockoff, which was pretty unfair considering how young and untested the band was at the time. The early material of Incubus, especially the band’s debut album Fungus Amongus, was more indebted to funk/alt-metal bands like Faith No More and Red Hot Chili Peppers than anything else. It’s a very interesting album that, if you listened to their later work first (which is understandable, given they found fame soon after), might see foreign to you in some way. (I really hate typing that) that remains the favorite for many fans. However, it’s the band’s second album, S.C.I.E.N.C.E. Seriously, “Drive” and “Pardon Me” were just huge crossover hits, they were pretty inescapable for many years, and still remain great songs. Vocalist Brandon Boyd was the main draw to the band, with his versatile and smooth vocals immediately becoming the catalyst for the band’s later success with Make Yourself. However, Incubus had plenty of ways they managed to differentiate themselves from the pack. Rising up alongside other bands of the era like Korn, Deftones, and Limp Bizkit (just to name a few), the band was quickly lumped in with their nu-metal brethren. 311? Incubus’s occasional forays into alternative metal made that comparison faulty rather quickly. In retrospect, it’s still pretty hard to compare them to any of their specific peers. Between 19, Incubus released a triumvirate of albums that, while stylistically different and evolving, helped put the California rock band in the spotlight relatively quickly.
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