Alice In Chains

Alice in Chains is an American rock band, which was created by Guitarist Jerry Cantrell in Seattle, Washington in 1987, and original lead singer Lane Staley. Although associated with grunge music, the band's music combines heavy metal and acoustic elements. Since its inception, Alice in Chains has released four studio albums, three EPs, two live albums, four compilation and two DVDs. This band is known for its special singer, which often includes harmless songs of Staley and Cantrell.

Alice in Chains also gained international fame along with other bands like Seattle's Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Soundgarden when the grunge movement took place in the 1990s. Alice in Chains was also included in the musical bands, which were very successful in the 1990s. In that decade, more than four million copies of its album were sold worldwide, and alone 16 million copies were sold in the US alone. The band's two albums, Jar of Flies and Alice in Chains, debuted at the Billboard 200 chart, with 14 of their songs being listed on the Top Ten list of Mainstream Rock Tracks, and seven nominations were found in the Grammy Awards.

Although Alice in Chains was inactive due to the death of Len Staley in 2002 due to some reasons not to officially ban the band, and for some reason eventually. In 2005, Alice in Chains band was reorganized with new lead singer William Duvall, and on September 29, 2009, in 14 years, her first studio album, Black Gives Way to Blue, was released.

When Lane Staley's slay band was dispersed in 1986, she created Alice N Chains. She said about this band, "Dressed in drag and play speed metal". The new band included guitarist Nick Pollock, bassist Johnny Bacolus and drummer James Bergstrom, in Seattle and surrounding areas, they played compositions such as slayers and armored silent covers. While working at Staley Music Bank Rehearsal Studios, she met with Guitarist Jerry Cantrell, during which both the strugglers used to stay in the place where they were rehearsing as musicians. Shortly after the Alice N Chains band was dispersed and Stella joined the Funk Band, the band also needed guitarists at the time. Staley offered to join Cantrell as an assistant. Cantrell also accepted the offer to join Staley in Cantrell's band Diamond Lie in addition to accepting the offer. That band included drummer Sean Kinney and Basist Mike Star at the time. Eventually the funk project collapsed and Stally joined Cantrell for the full time in 1987. Diamond Lakes served programs in clubs near the Pacific Northwest, often running a 15-minute program for 45 minutes. Eventually the band was renamed Alice in Chains.

Local promoter Randy Hoz introduced the band during a concert and offered to pay the amount for demo recordings. However, one day before the band was recording to Washington Music School studio, police shot the largest marijuana in state history and locked the studio. The final demo was named The Treehouse Tapes and it was shown to music manager Kelly Curtis and Suzanne Silver. These music managers were also handling the operations of Seattle-based other band Soundgarden. Curtis and Silver sent the demo to Columbia Records A & Ary representative Nick Terzko, who arranged an appointment with label President Don Inner. Based on The Treehouse Tape (sold on the 1988 Demo Tape Band Show), Inner signed an Alice in Chains in 1989 in Colombia. The band recorded another anonymous demo in 1989, in three months. This recording is included in the illegally released Sweet Alice.

Facelift and SAP (1990-92)
Alice in Chains soon became an important band for the label. In July 1990, he released the band's first official recording, promotional EPV Die Young. EP's main song "We Die Young" was a hit on metal radio. After its success, the label took the production of Alice in Chains' debut album together with producer Dave Jardin. Cantrell commented that the album was a capital aura, which was a direct result of Seattle's contemplative atmosphere and realization.

The Facelift album was released on August 21, 1990 and ranked 42 on the Billboard 200 list in the summer of 1991. Facelift however did not get immediate success. In the first six months of its release, MTVA sold less than 40,000 copies until the MTVA "Men in the Box" was released on a regular basis. The album's next single, "Sea of ​​Sorrow", reached number 27 on the list of Mainstream Rock charts, after its single number 18, and Facelift sold 4,00,000 copies in the US for six weeks. The album also got a good response from critics. All Music's Steve Huawe described Facelift as one of the most important audiences to create audiences for grunge and alternative rock.

The Recording Industry Association of America certifies Facelife Album with Gold. By the end of 1990, the band was still fond of its audiences, while artists such as Egipi Pope, Van Helen, Poison, and Extreme were emerging. In early 1991, he vacated his first position for the competition between Clash of the Titans Anthrax, Megadeth and Slayer. Alice in Chains was nominated for "Man in the Box" in the category of Best Hard Rock Performance at the 1992 Grammy Awards, but this award was received by van Helen for her 1991 "For Unlawful Karnial Knowledge".

Guitarist Jerry Cantrell is the co-founder of the band. Cantrell is also an important contributor with Staley to create a significant band of bands.

After the tour, Alice in Chains undertook a recording of the demo for her next album in the studio, but instead recorded five acoustic songs. During the studio, drummer Sean Kinney was dreamed of "creating an EP named SAP". The band decided not to go contrary to fate, and on March 21, 1992, Alice in Chains released her second EP Sap. Nirvana's top of the Billboard 200 list was at the top, EP was released at the time, resulting in the growing popularity of Seattle-based bands and grunge music. SAP has been certified gold soon. In the EP, he also gave a voice to the heart band N Wilson. He joined Stella and Cantrell in the Chorus of Brother, Mike Inside and Love Song. In EP, Mark Arm of Madhoni and Chris Cornell of Soundgarden were also featured, who appeared in the song "Right Turn". "Alice Mudgarden" was credited to the song's liner notes. In 1992, Alice in Chains band was seen as a band in Cameron Crowe Singles. The band's soundtrack in the film? There was also a song in the song named. The film's soundtrack and its video won the 1993 MTV Music Awards Best Video from a Film.

Dirt (1992-93)

In February 1992, the band returned to the studio. The new songs were mainly written on the road and their content was much more melancholic than Facelift. Six songs from the album's top 12 songs were addictive. "We did a lot of self-assurance on this album. There is a deep feeling involved in it. "According to Cantrell," We face our inner evil elements through music. Any time the poison is gathered in us, it is destroyed by playing music. "

On September 29, 1992, Alice in Chains released her second album Dirt. She reached number six on the Billboard 200 chart and RIAA certified four-fold platinum. Dirt is the best-selling album of all time in the Alice in Chains band. The album was a huge success. Steve Huau praised the album, calling it "a wonderful song out of the songs he heard, touching the heart of artists". Guitar World's Chris Gill described Dirt as "the giant and the fate of the future, though weird and proximate" and "gorgeous in a grand manner and ruthlessly honest". Five songs from Dirt were ranked on the Top 30 singles list, including "Rooster", "Them Bones" and "Down in a Hall" and these singles remained in the chart for almost a year. Alice in Chains was added as an opener in Ozzy Osbourne's No More Tears Tour. A few days before the start of the tour, Lan Stella foot injury sustained in an ATV accident, due to which she had to come on stage with Cuchis. Stare left the band during the tour and instead Ozzy Osbourne's bassist Mike Inez came in. In 1993, the band recorded two songs "What the hell is I" and "A Little Bitter" for Last Action Hero Soundtrack with Inez. During the summer of 1993, Alice in Chains toured the Alternate Music Festival Lollapalooza, which was the last tour of this band with Staley.

Jar of Flies (1993-94)

Following Alice in Chains' extensive global tour of 1993, Staley said that the band "wants to go to the studio with acoustic guitars for some time and wants to see what happens". "We never thought of releasing it while creating music." But the record label heard this and really liked it. For us, those four people gathered in the studio and had the experience of creating a little music. "

Not keeping in mind the public release, Columbia Records released Alice in Chains' second acoustic-based EP jar of flax on January 25, 1994. Jar of jar was written and recorded in one week. She was number one on the Billboard 200 chart. It became the first release of the EP and Alice in Chains that peaked at the top of the chart. Paul Evans of Rolling Stone described the EP as "gorgeous gorgeous" and Steve Hewey said, "Jar of Flies is a shocker, tragically grand and painful." Junk of Flies of No Excuses is the first in the Mainstream Rock Charts Becoming the first song of the series Alice in Chains The second song reached number ten on I Stay Away Mainstream Rock Charts and the last song, Do not Follow, reached 25th. After the release of Jar of Flies, Lane Staley came in Rehab for her heroin fury. The band organized tour with the Metallica and Suicide Tensenes in the summer of 1994, but during the rehearsal for the Tour, Staley started taking heroin again. Due to Staley's situation, other members of the band had to cancel all their schedules one day before the start of the tour, causing all the members to become inactive.

Alice in Chains (1995-96)

When Alice in Chains was not active during 1995, Staley "Grunge Supergroup" joined the Mad Season, which included Pearl Jam Guitarist Mike McCready, John Walker Saunders of The Walkabouts, and Drummer Barrett Martin of Screaming Trees. Mad Seese released an album Above, with Staley being the main vocalist. The album included the second number single "River of Deceit" and the live video of Live at Moore was also released. In April 1995 Alice in Chains entered the Bad Animals Studio in Seattle with producer Toby Wright, who had previously worked with Coronation of Conformity and Slayer. While the studio was in operation, a small version of the song "Grind" leaked into the radio and it was broadcast in large numbers. On October 6, 1995, the band released the studio version of the song on Radio.

On November 7, 1995, Columbia Records released the album, Alice in Chains, which reached number one on the Billboard 200 chart and was certified double platinum. Three of the album's songs "Grind", "Again", "Over Now" and "Heaven Beside You" were the main three Cantrell. Joan Viederhorn of Rolling Stone told the album that "the free and engrossing lyrics are surprising and experienced." The song "Got Me Wrong" came unexpectedly on the SAP EP chart three years after its release. The song was re-released for the soundtrack of Independent Film Clarks in 1995, during which she reached number seven on the chart of Mainstream Rock Tracks. The band decided not to proceed further under Alice in Chains, which triggered speculation that the band was taking intoxicants.

Alice in Chains became active for the first concert MTV Unplugged Program in three years on April 10, 1996. In this performance, the songs included in the band include "Down in a Hall", "Heaven Beside You" and "Wood?" And included in the song "The Killer Is Me". Alice in Chains became a five-member band, adding another guitarist Scott Olson. The live album of Performance was released in July, 1996, which came third in the Billboard 200 chart. Home video was released with it. Both have been certified platinum by the RIAA. The 1996 Lollapaloo Za Tour was a tour to support the Origin Kiss line-up. Following the tour, Alice in Chains performed four shows, with Lane Staley's last live show on 3 July 1996, at Kansas City, Missouri.

Discharge and Lane Staley's death (1996-2002)

Alice in Chains was officially never dispersed, but Staley began living in solitary confessions after the death of Stella's X-fiancee Dammry Parrot in 1996 due to bacterial endocarditis. Staley said to Rolling Stone in 1996, "I have taken drugs for years, and now she is going against me, now I am going to death." With no new changes in Alice in Chains, Cantrell did her first in 1998 The solo album released 'Bogie Depot', which included Sean Kinney and Mike Inez. In 1998, Staley 'Get Born Again' and 'Died' again joined Alice in Chains to record two new songs. These songs, written for original Cantrell solo albums, were released on box sets, music banks in late 1999. The set contained 48 songs, including demos, rare recordings, and past album tracks. The band released a 15-track compilation, Nothing Safe: Best of the Box which became a sample for the music bank and became the band's first Greatest Hits Compilation. The band's last official release includes live albums live released on December 5, 2000, and the second most compiled great hits to be successful in 2001.

By 2002, Cantrell completed the work of his second solo album Degradation Trip. The style of the album, written in 1998, was written in style, as Cantrell described an end to Alice in Chains. However, Cantrell commented in March of that year that "We are still in contact with each other, so (Alice in Chains) is likely to do something someday and I have a complete hope that we will work together again."

After struggling for a decade to get rid of drug addiction, Len Staley was found dead in his house on April 20, 2002. The accountants, who are known to have not received money from their account for a long time, contacted Staley's mother and her stepfather to inform them about this. With the help of the police, they entered Stella's house and investigated. In Autopsy's report, Staley's death was revealed by a mixture of heroin and cocaine. His friends suspected that Staley might have been infected with an infectious disease, against which his body could not cope due to weakened immune system. His body was discovered two weeks after his death. Staley admitted in a few months before his death, "I know that I am near death, I've used heroin for years. I never wanted to end my life. "Cantrell dedicated his memoir to Stella's solo album, released in 2002, two months after Staley's death.

Reconstruction (2005-08) Since the launch of Sean Kinney 2006, Kinney has been a drummer of Alice in Chains. In Mike Inez 2009

Jerry Cantrell, Mike Inez and Sean Kinney reunited with the intention of performing fundraising for victims of tsunami disaster in South Asia. The band included the Maynard James Kennon of Tool and Ann Wilson of Hart as a guest guest with DamePlan Walkist Pat Letchman. On March 10, 2006, members of Seattle performed at VHW's Decades Rock live concert in honor of Seattle's fellow musicians Ann and Nancy Wilson of Hart. He sang "Rooster" with "Do?", Panera's singer Phil Enzellmo and Gunz N. Roses with Duff McKagan and Down, and with Velvet Revolver, and then with Comms With the Fall singer William DuVall and Ann Wilson. Subsequently, the band performed concerts in the United States Short Club Tour, during festive dates in Europe and in Japan's short tour. Alongside the restoration of the band, the third compilation The Essential Alice in Chains was released by Sony Music for long after Alice in Chains was restored. This double album contained 28 songs.

During the band's restructuring concert, Duvall joined Alice in Chains as the lead singer. Velvet Revolver and Guns N Roses's former bassist Duff McKagan also joined the band for a reunion tour. He was playing rhythm guitar in selected songs. Kenny said in an interview before the tour that she would be interested in writing new songs, but not Alice in Chains. However, according to AliceinChains.com's report, the band started writing new songs with Duvall as the lead singer.

Black Gives Way to Blue (2008-present)

A September 2008 report from Blabbermouth.net stated that Alice in Chains will begin recording in the studio in October of that year to release a new album in the summer of 2009.

In October 2008, Alice in Chains, together with producer Nick Rascalinux, began recording the fourth studio album at the Fu Fighters Studio 606 in Los Angeles. Jerry Cantrell at the Revolver Golden God Awards said that the group has finished recording in March 2009 and is currently mixing it for release in September. In April 2009 it was reported that Alice in Chains' new album will be released by Virgin / EMI, this was the first time the band's label changed in career of more than 20 years. On June 11, 2009 Blabbermouth.net reported that the new album would be named "Black Gives Way to Blue" and its release date was set to be September 29, 2009. On June 30, 2009, one of the songs on the album was released as the first song from the album "A Looking In View". In early July this song from the official website of Alice in Chains could be downloaded for a limited time. Music Video for "A Looking In View" was released by the official Alice in Chains website on July 7, 2009. The second song "Check My Brain" was released on August 14, 2009 in radio stations and placed on the market since August 17th. In addition, it was announced that Elton John would appear on the album's title track.

In September 2008, it was announced that Alice in Chains would perform at the Australian Soundwave Festival in collaboration with Nine Inch Nails and Lamb of God. In February 2009, it was also announced that Alice in Chains would be offering the program at the third annual Rock on the Range Festival. On 1 August 2009, Alice in Chains performed with Mastodon, Avenged Sevenfold and Glider to support Metallica at Marley Park, Dublin. Also on 10 November 2009, in the band Later Live ... also appeared in Lesley Learned, Black Gives Way to Blue and Check My Brain, as the final performance of the episode with Judas Holland.

Alice in Chains released her next song "Your Decision" in the UK on November 16, with the band's European tour, and on December 1, she was in the United States. The fourth song from the album "Lesson Learned" was released in the mid-June. On May 26, 2010, Black Gives Way to Blue was certified gold by the RIAA as its more than 500,000 copies were sold for sale.

Alice in Chains with Mastodon and Deftones will perform in the United States and Canada as part of the Blackdreams Tour in late 2010. Blackdreamsky is the name given to the three band's latest album titles, Black Gives Way to Blue, Diamond Eyes, and Crack the Sky, all using one word of all.

Potential future album

In April 2010, guitarist Jerry Cantrell told MTV News that Alice in Chains is considering preparing a fifth studio album in the future. He said, "Everything is currently under consideration. There is a need to see where the thoughts reach. Living in the present is the best way to live life and we hope it will happen. I did not see any reason for not doing this. "Frontman William Duvall also commented on the future of the upcoming album and Alice in Chains, saying," We are doing many programs. There are many programs ahead. But yes, we are thrilled about the future. I do not think the band will be separated for a long time. "

Musical style

Although Alice in Chains has received nicknames such as grunge, alternate rock and hard rock, Jerry Cantrell is known as the band mainly heavy metal. In 1996, he said to Guitar World "There is a lot of diversity in us ... I do not know what kind of mixing it is, but it's a fraction of metal, blues, rock and roll, and maybe futility. The piece of metal will never be removed from it, and I never want it to be removed. "

As Jerry Cantrell's guitar style is called Stephen Earlwine of Allmusic, "Pameling Riffs and Expensive Guitar Textures", which creates "Slow, Breaking Miner-Key Grinds". Along with Stella's unique snell-to-a-scream, people with heavy-down tuned distorted guitar appealed to heavy metal fans, the band had a sense of never being seen in the melody, due to which the Alice in Chains displayed in front of the massive pop spectators outside the heavy metal area. Had happened.

Critics say about the band "This band is a little hard for metal admirers, yet its lunatic themes and futility are putting them in the front row of Seattle-based grunge bands." The band's three releases include all acoustic music, and initially the band included the trio Decided to release at different times. Alice in Chains' self-titled album "was quite cool, kind of nihilistic style, which was designed to follow acoustic style with hard rock."

Alice in Chains is also known for Staley and Cantrell's unique vocal harmony, including overlapping passage and dual lead vocals. According to Alisa Burrows, the special sound of the band "came from Staley's personal struggle and expression of songs and songs expressing addiction." Staley's songs were often considered "cold-blooded", often featuring substance abuse, depression and suicide, while Cantrell's songs were personal More emphasis on relationships.

Legacy Alice in Chains' current vocalist William Duvall is currently performing alongside the band. At the time of the re-organization of Alice in Chains after Stella's death, D'Owol was replaced by Stella as the lead singer.

Alice in Chains has sold 1.4 million albums in the United States and 3.5 million worldwide, has released two number-one albums and 21 top 40 songs, and received seven Grammy nominations. The band's rank was the 34th on VH1's 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock. Alice in Chains was nominated as the 15th Greatest Live Band by Hit Pader, and vocalist Len Staley was ranked 27th best singer of all time. The band's second album Dirt was named close-up magazine fifth in the list of the best albums of the past two decades. Alice in Chains Carranges in August 2009! Icon Award wins.

Alice in Chains has been a major influence on many other bands, such as Godmax. According to MTV's John Widgerhorn, Godsmack "follows the style of Alice in Chains in its own distinctive style." Goszmack's singer and founder, Sally Arna, also admits to being influenced by Len Staine. Staind has covered Alice in Chains' song "Nutshell", which is found in the compilation. The Singles: In addition to 1996-2006, Staind also had a song called "Lane" in his "14 Shades of Gray" album, dedicated to Stella Came in. Three Days Grace also performs a cover of "Rooster", which is found on live at the Palace's DVD. Other bands inspired by Alice in Chains include Creed, Nickelback, Taproot, Fall of Mud, Godsmack, Smile Emptie Soul, Cold, Days of the New and Tantric. According to Metallica, Alice in Chains was an important inspiration for their release of "Death Magnetic" for 2008, because they always wanted to tour with this band. Metallica recorded Shine to give homage to Lane Staley, but the song was kept Death Magnetic because of product restrictions.