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by Digami, 23.04.2019
What separated Alice in Chains from their alt-rock brethren was how their roots lay in heavy metal, not punk. Guitarist Jerry Cantrell and vocalist Layne Staley both played in metal bands prior to the formation of Alice in Chains in and they released the band's debut, Faceliftinwell before Nirvana 's Nevermind pushed the underground into the mainstream. Despite their connections to metal, Alice alice in chains group members Chains thrived in the glory days of grunge, and it wasn't merely a question of timing, either.
The band's second full-length overall, it built and expanded upon the template they had laid out on their debut, Facelift, in the process jacking up the intensity and raw emoting to incredible, and at times uncomfortable, extremes. Jerry Cantrell's riffs were darker and sludgier; drummer Sean Kinney and bassist Mike Starr's rhythms lumbered like an elephant trudging through molasses; and Layne Staley's raw-throated wail was agonized in a way that was almost painful to listen to.
Largely because of late singer Layne Staley's debilitating drug addictionin their heyday, AIC were known almost as much for their long periods of inactivity as they were for their gloom-laden, brooding music. Melding hard-rock guitars and the sludgy grunge aesthetic of the time, AIC stood out from the pack thanks to their adoption of a more classic heavy-metal sound and intense, almost unrelentingly bleak lyrics that touched on everything from drug addiction and isolation to the plight of Vietnam veterans.
A second EP, ''Sap,'' was released infollowed in by ''Dirt,'' which has sold four million copies. Staley was struggling with heroin addiction, and on the verge of a summer tour, the band broke up for six months.
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