They released the albums Into the Unknown in 1983, Suffer in 1988, No Control in 1989, Against the Grain in 1990, Generator in 1992, and Recipe for Hate in 1993. Bad Religion started becoming commercially successful with the release of their album Stranger Than Fiction in 1994 and continuing with the albums The Gray Race in 1996, No Substance in 1998, The New America in 2000, The Process of Belief in 2002, The Empire Strikes First in 2004, New Maps of Hell in 2007, The Dissent of Man in 2010, and True North in 2013. Their most popular single “21st Century (Digital Boy)” reached #11 on the US Alternative chart. Graffin earned his PhD from Cornell University and has released the solo albums American Lesion in 1997, Cold as the Clay in 2006, and Millport in 2017 in addition to authoring multiple books.