10 Bands That Destroyed Their Careers

10. At the Drive In

With grunge and nu metal starting to fade from memory as the early '00s started, rock fans didn't really know where to go after that. Even with the pop punk bands storming across the charts, there was a hole in the scene in terms of heaviness. We needed something much more bold than what had come before, and At the Drive In were just the ticket with Relationship of Command.

Taking the best pieces of prog, punk, and even metal in places, this became the benchmark for post hardcore, with Omar Rodriguez Lopez becoming the next guitar legend for fans to be paying attention to. So with the world as their oyster, At the Drive In did what any band would do and...broke up without any forewarning.

The fallout ended up being pretty hard as well, with everyone not on the same page and choosing to cut ties rather than make something that sounded half finished. Even when they reunited for Interalia a while back, there's something that seems to be missing with the exclusion of Jim Ward and the mind melting insanity of The Mars Volta trying to take their place. Still, it's better to have a flame that burned out way too quickly than to not have had them at all.