Claim: The Offspring released Smash in May of 1994.
Evidence: The band 's third studio album , Smash -LRB- 1994 -RRB- , became their first commercial success , and has sold over eleven million copies worldwide , setting a record for most albums sold on an independent label and becoming the first album on Epitaph to obtain gold and platinum status.
Recording and production were finished a month later , and the album was released on April 8 , 1994 on Epitaph Records.