10 Bands Destroyed By Just One Album

Say what you want to about Styx's music, but they have never let the critical sphere get in the way or their hard rocking power. Though the band endured a slogging from every music magazine, their albums The Grand Illusion and Paradise Theater are still some of the best albums of the 1970's. Once tasting success though, keyboardist Dennis DeYoung got a very twisted idea.

Wanting to go deeper into the conceptual realm, DeYoung imagined an album centered around a dystopian city taken over by a robotic dictatorship. This idea was ill-advised from the start, with songwriters JY Young and Tommy Shaw each struggling to come up with songs to go along with the theme. Regardless of the arduous production, Kilroy Was Here sold very well, with even the central piece "Mr. Roboto" enduring a healthy shelf life, if only for the so-bad-it's-good appeal.

So why were the band destroyed if the album did well? Simple...it flat out broke the band apart. With the tour incorporating even more conceptual elements to the stage performance, Tommy Shaw got strung out on drugs and eventually quit the band in protest to DeYoung's newfound vision. While the band have come back in recent years without DeYoung, the band's setlist is nearly devoid of anything from this contentious album.