Shallow Bay: The Best of Breaking Benjamin is a compilation album by American post-grunge/alternative metal band Breaking Benjamin, released on August 16, 2011. The album features every song they released as a single, with the exception of the 2010 digital single version of "Blow Me Away", instead including the remixed version of the song featuring Valora. A 2-disc deluxe version was also released on the same day as the regular version, the second disc of which includes remastered/remixed versions of b-sides, covers, acoustic performances, live recordings and other rarities. Despite the name, the song "Shallow Bay" doesn't actually appear on the album. It debuted at #22 on the Billboard 200 with sales of 13,725.Shallow Bay: The Best of Breaking Benjamin is a compilation album by American post-grunge/alternative metal band Breaking Benjamin, released on August 16, 2011. The album features every song they released as a single, with the exception of the 2010 digital single version of "Blow Me Away", instead including the remixed version of the song featuring Valora. A 2-disc deluxe version was also released on the same day as the regular version, the second disc of which includes remastered/remixed versions of b-sides, covers, acoustic performances, live recordings and other rarities. Despite the name, the song "Shallow Bay" doesn't actually appear on the album. It debuted at #22 on the Billboard 200 with sales of 13,725.false2025-10-04 00:47:19Shallow Bay: The Best of Breaking Benjamin (deluxe edition)20072007-04-172007-04-1789Alternative MetalAlternative RockHard RockRock1122822135335242f2da5-f3a2-49bb-89c0-9538cdab736a854a1807-025b-42a8-ba8c-2a39717f1d25f4804c16-02b2-438c-b331-92cb76512364/media/data/media2/Music/Breaking Benjamin/Shallow Bay_ The Best of Breaking Benjamin (deluxe edition)/folder.jpgBreaking BenjaminBreaking Benjamin feat. ValoraBreaking BenjaminBreaking Benjamin is an American rock band from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, formed in 1999 by lead singer and guitarist Benjamin Burnley and drummer Jeremy Hummel. The first lineup of the band also included guitarist Aaron Fink and bassist Mark James Klepaski. This lineup released two albums, Saturate (2002) and We Are Not Alone (2004), before Hummel was replaced by Chad Szeliga in 2005. The band released two more studio albums, Phobia (2006) and Dear Agony (2009), before entering an extended hiatus in early 2010 due to Burnley's recurring illnesses.
Amid the hiatus, the release of a compilation album, Shallow Bay: The Best of Breaking Benjamin (2011), unauthorized by Burnley, brought about legal trouble within the band resulting in the dismissal of Fink and Klepaski. Szeliga later announced his departure in 2013 citing creative differences. Burnley remained the sole member of the band until late 2014, when the current lineup was announced, including bassist and backing vocalist Aaron Bruch, guitarist and backing vocalist Keith Wallen, guitarist Jasen Rauch, and drummer Shaun Foist. The band afterward released Dark Before Dawn (2015) and Ember (2018), which debuted at number one and three on the Billboard 200, respectively. Following these albums, the band released another compilation, Aurora (2020), featuring reworked acoustic versions of past songs along with one original new song.
Despite significant lineup changes, the band's musical style and lyrical content have remained consistent, with Burnley serving as the primary composer and lead vocalist since the band's inception. The band has commonly been noted for its formulaic hard rock tendencies with angst-heavy lyrics, swelling choruses, and "crunching" guitars. In the United States alone, the band has sold more than 19 million units and yielded three RIAA-certified platinum records, two gold records, and several certified singles, including three multi-platinum, three platinum, and six gold.