The album includes the band's first two chart singles, Requiem for a Dying Song (which hit No. 35 on the Billboard Modern Rock charts) and Float (which hit No. 40). Fans met the release with great anticipation and enthusiasm, landing it at No. 4 on the Billboard Top 200 Chart. Flogging Molly also recognized the album as influential to their career as their first album recorded in Ireland (though mixed in California) by producer Ryan Hewitt. A year later Flogging Molly released Float, an album dubbed "one of the most important CDs of the year, if not the decade" by Alternative Press. The EP includes two new tracks, as well as acoustic versions of previously released songs. In March 2007, the band released an exclusive EP through iTunes entitled Complete Control Sessions. They have sold in excess of a million and a half copies of recorded output as of December 6, 2006. They have toured with the Warped Tour, Larry Kirwan's American Fléadh Festival and contributed to the Rock Against Bush project. Careerįlogging Molly has released an independent (26f Records) live album titled Alive Behind the Green Door, as well as five studio albums: Swagger, Drunken Lullabies, Within a Mile of Home, Float and Speed of Darkness and an acoustic/live DVD/cd combo Whiskey on a Sunday, which has gone platinum. In an interview with Kerrang! magazine, King stated that the band's name comes from the bar (Molly Malone's) that faithfully supported the band from the very beginning, "We used to play there every Monday night and we felt like we were flogging it to death, so we called the band Flogging Molly." They were signed onto SideOneDummy Records after a show when the record company's owners attended a concert and noted their intensity.
They put out a live album, Alive Behind the Green Door in 1997. Then 17-year-old Nathen Maxwell snuck into a show as a fan and soon after joined the band. They continued a routine of playing every Monday night at Molly Malone's. Dave and Bridget began to find new members and the current band was formed. Ted and Jeff then left Flogging Molly because an earlier band of theirs received a record deal. Together, they wrote songs such as "Black Friday Rule" and "Devil's Dance Floor", which was the beginning of Flogging Molly's sound. Putting Dave's poetic lyrics to rocking melodies, they played at a Los Angeles pub called Molly Malone's weekly, building a small but loyal following. They began to play a mix of Irish traditional and rock. In 1993, King met guitarist Ted Hutt, bassist Jeff Peters, and fiddle player Bridget Regan and put together a rock band with a Celtic feel. King negotiated out of his record deal to go his own way musically soon after. Afterwards, Dave King retained a record deal with Epic records and began to work on a solo album, but began to reconsider his record deal when the label opposed his idea of bringing in traditional Irish instruments.
He later fronted a hard rock band called Katmandu (1991), featuring Mandy Meyer of Krokus on guitars.
Prior to forming Flogging Molly, Dublin-born Dave King was the lead singer for heavy metal band Fastway featuring guitarist "Fast" Eddie Clarke of Motörhead and bassist Pete Way of UFO in the early to mid '80s.
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