Breaking Benjamin is an alternative metal band from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. They first got their big break in their hometown after hooking up to record their first album with Freddie "DJ Freddie" Fabbri, a former on-air-personality now current-tour-manager of Breaking Benjamin who funded the pressing and release of 2,000 copies of Breaking Benjamin's self titled EP, as well as putting the band's first single, "Polyamorous", into heavy rotation on his radio station 93.7 X in 2001. History Formation Formed in 1998 by vocalist Benjamin Burnley and drummer Jeremy Hummel, Breaking Benjamin quickly garnered a strong local following in their home state of Pennsylvania. The band derived their name after Burnley explained during an interview he was covering a Nirvana song during an open-mic night at a club when he dropped the microphone to the ground, breaking it. The person who owned the microphone came on stage and said, 'Tha