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Scars by Soil
Scars is an album by Soil, released in 2001. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 3 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Halo”, on 2 lists with a best position of #25.
Scars, Soil's second album, came out through J Records on September 11, 2001. It was the Chicago band's major-label debut and the first rock album J ever released, and it remains the biggest-selling record they've made.
Ryan McCombs sings in a gravel-throated bellow, and the band behind him, Adam Zadel and Shaun Glass on guitars, Tim King on bass and Tom Schofield on drums, grinds out low-slung, chugging riffs with just enough groove to keep the whole thing moving. It's nu metal at its most meat-and-potatoes, heavy but hooky. "Halo" was the breakthrough, reaching number 22 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart and 74 in the UK, and "Unreal" followed. The album only scraped 193 on the Billboard 200, but it kept selling: 222,000 copies in America by July 2004, and a BPI silver certificate in 2011. A decade on, McCombs rejoined the band for a tour marking its tenth anniversary.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Scars on radio countdowns
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.