Director Vincent Adam Paul, and editors Adrain West and Jeff Merritt show great care and attention to detail, evident in every frame, capturing what each member brings to the table, individually and collectively. By the time the camera finally finds Staind, they’re already a handful of notes through the album’s first song, “Open Your Eyes”, and the experience feels as poignant and powerful as ever. Until the echo of a guitar reverberates through the halls. Seedy alleyways and the empty, winding corridors of Mill 3 suggest it has been devoid of human inhabitation for quite some time. Stunningly impressive drone footage, operated by Lazr, walks us down the mills desolate train tracks before floating along the trail of the canal, the entire area practically barren.
Reminding us why this album, and this band, are still important today.įilmed at Open Square, a city block of historic mills between the canals in Holyoke, Massachusetts, stoic stones and cracked pillars provide the setting for this homegrown occasion, as well as providing subtext for much of the music. Celebrating this two-decade milestone, as part of ‘The Return of Staind’ global streaming series, the ’20th Anniversary Performance of Break the Cycle’sees this classic album being performed in its entirety. Jump to 2021, and around ten million album sales later, and ‘Break the Cycle’ has become iconic, standing the test of twenty years of time.
Suddenly, living up to its name, ‘Break the Cycle,’the sophomore album by Staind, arrives and upends the applecart. Korn, Limp Bizkit, and Linkin Park lead the charge, and for a moment ‘Iowa’ by Slipknot seems like the only alternative to this rap-metal hybrid taking the world by storm. Nu-metal is sowing deep roots as a major sub-genre, its audience expanding at an unprecedented rate.
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