Alien Ant Farm are an alternative rock group that formed in the southern California city of Riverside in 1996.

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

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

In 2001, their cover of the Michael Jackson song, "Smooth Criminal", was a #1 single in Australia and New Zealand, a #3 single in the UK, and #1 on the US Modern Rock charts. The music video features numerous homages to Michael Jackson and his videos.

In spring of 2002, the band contributed "Bug Bytes" to the first Spider-Man soundtrack. In May 2002, the band was involved in a bus accident while touring in Spain. The driver, 26-year-old Christopher Holland, was killed, and lead singer Dryden Mitchell suffered a fractured C2 vertebra.

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

In 2004, the band recorded the song "Dark In Here" for the Punisher video game. Unfortunately, the band was forced to wait for Geffen to decide 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, debut release) and planned to release the album during that summer.

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