Alice In Chains

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Vocalist Layne Staley and guitarist Jerry Cantrell formed Alice In Chains in early 1987, in Seattle Washington USA, along with associates Mike Starr on bass and Sean Kinney on drums.
The Hard-Rock Grunge band soon attracted attention for their energetic live shows and were picked up by Columbia Records in 1989.

The quartet released their first EP, "We Die Young", in June 1990. It was followed a couple of months later by their debut album, "Facelift"; the disc broke into the The Billboard Top 200 chart spawning two Mainstream Rock top 30 hits: "Man In The Box" and "Sea Of Sorrow". The band spent over a year on the road playing with Megadeth in Europe and with Van Halen, Anthrax and Iggy Pop in the United States.

Alice In Chains' second full-length disc, "Dirt", was issued in fall 1992, it peaked at #6 on the U.S. Top 200 Albums chart selling 3 million copies; however, soon after finishing the record, Starr left the group and was replaced by ex-Ozzy Osbourne bass player Mike Inez. The first single off the LP was the Active Rock top 20 hit "Would?", the follow-up single, "Rooster", rose to #7 on The Mainstream Rock Tracks and "Down In A Hole" hit the #10 position on the same chart; "Dirt" also included two Modern Rock top 30 hits, "Hate To Feel" and "Them Bones", plus one more Rock radio-single track, "Angry Chair".

They charted again at #19 on The Mainstream Rock Tracks in 1993 with "What The Hell Have I", a single taken from "Last Action Hero" movie soundtrack.

The group's next release was the EP "Jar Of Flies", the 7-track set hit #4 on the British Albums chart. The EP featured three excellent singles: "Don't Follow" entered the top 30 of the Active Rock chart, "I Stay Away" reached the top 10 and "No Excuses" topped that chart and also peaked at #3 on The Modern Rock Tracks.
Before 1994 was out another single, "Got Me Wrong", released off of the soundtrack from the motion picture "Clerks", peaked at #7 on The Mainstream Rock chart.

Layne formed a super stars Grunge outfit named Mad Season with Pearl Jam's Mike McCready and Barrett Martin from Screaming Trees, the band earned platinum album for their debut "Above".

Alice In Chains, regrouped in 1995 and in November churned out its third full album, an eponymous affair which further cemented their place among the Alternative-Rock elite in Europe and shot to #1 on the American Billboard Top 200; it included no less than four Active Rock charting singles, including the top 10 hits "Grind", "Again" and "Over Now" and the top 3 smash "Heaven Beside You" which also racked up a #6 position on The Modern Rock Tracks.

In April 1996, the foursome, taped a performance at the Brooklyn Acadamy of Arts for "MTV Unplugged", the set reached the #3 spot in U.S. and ascended into the top 20 in Great Britain; it contained their best singles plus a great new song: "The Killer Is Me".

Cantrell released his first solo album in the spring of 1998 and the following year was released the collection "Nothing Safe: Best Of The Box", which debuted at #20 in U.S. spawning a new hit single: "Get Born Again", this previously unreleased track soared to #4 on The Mainstream Rock chart.
The three-CD box-set "Music Bank" was released just three months later and peaked at #123 on The Billboard 200; the collection included demos, live tracks, alternate mixes and 3 previously unreleased songs, one of which, "Fear The Voices", reached the #11 slot on the U.S. Active Rock radio chart.

After various solo and side-projects a tragedy struck when Layne Staley was found dead in his Seattle apartment on April 19, 2002, at the age of 34, due to a lethal mix of cocaine and heroin; laboratory results determined the singer died April 5, his body had been laying in his flat for nearly two weeks.

In 2005, Cantrell reunited with the surviving Alice In Chains members to perform at a benefit concert for the tsunami relief aid.
Alice In Chains officially regrouped in early 2006 after a 10-year absence with singer William DuVall stepping in for late frontman Layne Staley. "Black Gives Way To Blue" is the name of the band's new album which will be released on September 29, 2009; "A Looking In View" is the first taste of their new record.

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Facelift

(1990)

1. We Die Young
2. Man In The Box
3. Sea Of Sorrow
4. Bleed The Freak
5. I Can't Remember
6. Love, Hate, Love
7. It Ain't Like That
8. Sunshine
9. Put You Down
10. Confusion
11. I Know Somethin (Bout You)
12. Real Thing

 

Dirt

(1992)

1. Them Bones
2. Dam That River
3. Rain When I Die
4. Down In A Hole
5. Sickman
6. Rooster
7. Junkhead
8. Dirt
9. God Smack
10. Iron Gland
11. Hate To Feel
12. Angry Chair
13. Would?

 

Last Action Hero
[soundtrack]

(1993)

INCLUDES:

- What The Hell Have I
- A Little Bitter

 

Jar Of Flies
[EP]

(1994)

1. Rotten Apple
2. Nutshell
3. I Stay Away
4. No Excuses
5. Whale & Wasp
6. Don't Follow
7. Swing On This

 

Clerks [soundtrack]

(1994)

INCLUDES:

- Got Me Wrong

 

Alice In Chains

(1995)

1. Grind
2. Brush Away
3. Sludge Factory
4. Heaven Beside You
5. Head Creeps
6. Again
7. Shame In You
8. God Am
9. So Close
10. Nothin' Song
11. Frogs
12. Over Now

 

MTV Unplugged

(1996)

1. Nutshell
2. Brother
3. No Excuses
4. Sludge Factory
5. Down In A Hole
6. Angry Chair
7. Rooster
8. Got Me Wrong
9. Heaven Beside You
10. Would?
11. Frogs
12. Over Now
13. The Killer Is Me [NEW TRACK]

 

Nothing Safe:
The Best Of The Box

(1999)

1. Get Born Again [NEW TRACK]
2. We Die Young [demo]
3. Man In The Box
4. Them Bones
5. Iron Gland
6. Angry Chair
7. Down In A Hole
8. Rooster [live]
9. Got Me Wrong
10. No Excuses
11. I Stay Away
12. What The Hell Have I
13. Grind
14. Again
15. Would?

 

Music Bank

(1999)

DISC #1:
1. Get Born Again
2. I Can't Have You Blues [demo]
3. Whatcha Gonna Do [demo]
4. Social Parasite [demo]
5. Queen Of The Rodeo [live]
6. Bleed The Freak [demo]
7. Killing Yourself [demo]
8. We Die Young
9. Man In The Box
10. Sea Of Sorrow [demo]
11. I Can't Remember
12. Love, Hate, Love
13. It Ain't Like That
14. Confusion
15. Rooster [demo]
16. Right Turn
17. Got Me Wrong

DISC #2:
1. Rain When I Die
2. Fear The Voices [previously unreleased]
3. Them Bones
4. Dam That River
5. Sickman
6. Rooster
7. Junkhead [demo]
8. Dirt
9. God Smack
10. Iron Gland
11. Angry Chair
12. Lying Season [previously unreleased]
13. Would?
14. Brother
15. Am I Inside
16. I Stay Away
17. No Excuses

DISC #3:
1. Down In A Hole
2. Hate To Feel
3. What The Hell Have I [remix]
4. A Little Bitter [remix]
5. Grind
6. Again [Tattoo Of Pain mix]
7. Head Creeps
8. God Am
9. Frogs
10. Heaven Beside You
11. Nutshell [unplugged]
12. The Killer Is Me [unplugged]
13. Over Now [unplugged]
14. Died [previously unreleased]

 

Black Gives Way To Blue

(2009)

INCLUDES: A Looking In View

 

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