The Smashing Pumpkins

USA, 1988–now

Chicago band led by Billy Corgan, formed in 1988. Gish, Siamese Dream and the sprawling Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness fused heavy-metal guitar layering, shoegaze textures and gothic grandeur into one of alternative rock's most ambitious and influential bodies of work.

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