Greta (band)
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Greta was an American
United States
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 hard rock
Hard rock
Hard rock is a loosely defined genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock, blues rock and psychedelic rock...

 band formed in 1992 by Paul Plagens, Kyle Baer, Josh Gordon, and Brad Wilk
Brad Wilk
Brad Wilk is an American musician, best known as the drummer of the American rock bands Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave.-Family and early life:...

. Wilk left the band to join Rage Against the Machine
Rage Against the Machine
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. Their debut, 1993's No Biting
No Biting
No Biting is a hard rock album released on September 21, 1993 by a hard rock band named Greta. It is an album which contains lyrics and also explicit content....

, is along the lines of Alice in Chains or early Pearl Jam, with lyrics of a tenor that necessitated the release of a "clean" version of the CD.

The band released two albums on Mercury Records
Mercury Records
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, but were dropped from the label, and they disbanded and broke up in 1995.

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