The happily-named Stabbing Westward began as a little known industrial-rock band based in Chicago -- the Liverpool of the genre -- in 1985. Though it took several years, the Christopher Hall-fronted outfit eventually signed to Columbia, whose roster had recently become more adventurous after a fallow period. The band's first album, 1993's Ungod, did little business, but they attracted a larger audience with their sophomore effort, Wither Blister Burn and Peel (1996), w...  [+]