Part of the late-'90s mainstream industrial boom, American rock group Stabbing Westward wrapped their dour, angst-filled cries in appropriately dark and moody atmospherics, joining bands like Nine Inch Nails and Gravity Kills with a similarly corrosive style that would evolve into the early 2000s. Breaking into the mainstream with their sophomore LP, 1996's gold-certified Wither Blister Burn & Peel, they issued another gold album (1998's Darkest Days) before closing out their first era with the stylistic shift of 2001's fraught, pop-leaning Stabbing Westward. Disbanding in 2002, the group members split and pursued individual projects, most notably the Dreaming. After a nearly two-decade absence from the studio, the band regrouped and issued the comeback Dead and Gone EP at the start of 2020. In 2022, they released their fifth official full-length, Chasing Ghosts.