Breaking Benjamin is an alternative metal band from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. They first got their big break in their home-town after coming together to record their first album with Freddie "DJ Freddie" Fabbri, a former on-air-personality now current-tour-manager of Breaking Benjamin who funded the pressing and release of 2,000 copies of Breaking Benjamin's self titled EP, as well as putting the band's first single, "Polyamorous," into heavy rotation on his radio station 93.7 X in 2001. Their first studio album, Saturate, peaked at #2 on the Top Heatseekers chart. The band has had great success on the Mainstream Rock chart with three #2 hits, one #1 hit, and five top ten hits from their nine singles to date.

Formed in 1998 by vocalist Benjamin Burnley and drummer Jeremy Hummel, Breaking Benjamin quickly garnered a strong local following. The name “Breaking Benjamin” comes from Benjamin Burnley’s early solo experience. Burnley was covering a Nirvana song during an open-mic night at a club when he finished he dropped the microphone to the ground, breaking it. The person who owned the microphone came on stage and said, ‘Thanks to Benjamin for breaking my f**king mic. ’ In 1999, the band brief