The Alien Ant Farm were born in Riverside in 1996 but exploded worldwide a few years later, when in 2001 they released the cover of Smooth Criminalaccompanied by a video tribute to Michael Jackson which teaches the scene how to make nu metal without always taking itself too seriously and ends up first at the top of the charts and then on the soundtrack of generational films such as Spider-Man e American Pie 2. Over the years, the line-up achieved a long series of goals: it went platinum with its second album ANThology (2001), collaborates with Robert e Dean De Leo of Stone Temple Pilots on the third studio work TruANT and participates in the soundtrack of several successful video games such as The Punisher e Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3. The Alien Ant Farm are also very active in the live arena and over the years have played with a long list of artists who have made history: Korn, Deftones, System of a Down, Papa Roach, Soulfly and many others. In 2024, the band released its sixth studio album, Mantras.