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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