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Dirt received critical acclaim, and is considered by many critics and fans alike as the group's best album. In a retrospective review, Steve Huey of AllMusic said "Dirt is Alice in Chains' major artistic statement and the closest they ever came to recording a flat-out masterpiece. It's a primal, sickening howl from the depths of Layne Staley's ...
The original lineup in a 1988 promo. From left: Jerry Cantrell, Sean Kinney, Mike Starr, Layne Staley. Before the formation of Alice in Chains, Layne Staley, a drummer at the time, [13] [14] landed his first gig as a vocalist when he auditioned to sing for a local glam metal band known as Sleze after receiving some encouragement from his stepbrother Ken Elmer.
In 2011, Alice in Chains began work on their fifth studio album, The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here, which was released on May 28, 2013. [14] Alice in Chains' sixth studio album, Rainier Fog, was released on August 24, 2018. [15] As of 2019, Alice in Chains has had 18 Top 10 songs and five No. 1 hits on Billboard ' s Mainstream Rock chart. [16]
A more fleeting supergroup, dubbed ‘Alice Mudgarden,’ convened to record one song for the first acoustic EP by Alice in Chains, 1992’s Sap. “Right Turn” features Soundgarden’s Chris ...
Alice in Chains 4:42 Am I Inside: Cantrell / Staley: Sap (February 4, 1992) November 1991 London Bridge Studio, Seattle (Features guest vocals by Ann Wilson) Alice in Chains / Parashar: 5:09 Music Bank (October 26, 1999) 5:08 The Essential Alice in Chains (September 5, 2006) 5:09 Angry Chair: Staley: Dirt (September 29, 1992) March–May 1992
The following acts were scheduled, but the tour was cancelled due to low ticket sales (most of these bands scheduled shows on the same dates as what would have been the Lollapalooza touring schedule following the tour's cancellation—this caused problems for many fans, who now had to choose which band to see):
Alice in Chains bassist Mike Starr had left the group after the release of their album Dirt and Inez replaced him. Inez toured throughout 1993 with Alice in Chains on the strength of the Dirt album. The group also participated in the 1993 Lollapalooza Tour. Alice in Chains' Jar of Flies EP was released in 1994 with Inez on bass.
This is a list of awards and nominations earned by American rock band Alice in Chains. As of 2019, Alice in Chains has received eleven Grammy nominations. [1] Their first nomination was for the song "Man in the Box", nominated for Best Hard Rock Performance in 1992. [1] The album Dirt was nominated in the same category in 1993. [1]