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.

Influenced by

• Black Sabbath
• The Cure
• My Bloody Valentine

Influenced

• Garbage