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Getting together as teens in 1992, Australia's Silverchair wrote songs in the vein of their grunge heroes. They outlived the era, however, by turning away from it. After a pair of post-grunge LPs landed them international hits in the mid-'90s, Silverchair revamped their sound at the turn of the millennium, incorporating electronics and art-rock structures on 1999's Neon Ballroom. The risky move gave the band a second wind as alt-rockers who could write ballads, which they carried forward for two more albums before disbanding in 2011.