Rainier Fog

AlbumAug 24 / 201810 songs, 53m 55s
Alternative Metal Grunge
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Alice In Chains, the 10-time GRAMMY®-nominated grunge icons, return with a sixth album of bluesy psychedelia and crunchy hard rock. Group founder Jerry Cantrell and co-lead singer William DuVall’s vocal melodies set the band apart, whether yearning over the throbbing metal of “Red Giant” or exploring their insecurities on the grunge throwback opener “The One You Know”. Decades after their ‘90s peak, Alice In Chains continue to mine a sound they pioneered without sacrificing the freshness and originality that makes their work distinct.

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The grunge stalwarts’ sixth album revisits their Seattle roots, with a sound harkening back to the early ’90s, when they were swept up in a wave of Pacific Northwest acts achieving international fame.

With their sixth album, the Seattle grungers find beauty in heaviosity to create a life-affirming statement

The veteran grunge band feels stuck between gears on their third album since the death of Layne Staley

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7 / 10

It's been half a decade since the last Alice in Chains record was released, but the band have churned out yet another masterful slab of slud...

7 / 10

When ALICE IN CHAINS regrouped in 2009 with that year's "Black Gives Way To Blue", longtime fans of the Seattle grunge-era rock icons approached its release cautiously. Vocalist Layne Staley left enormous shoes to fill in the wake of his death in 2002. With that 2009 release and its 2013 follow-up,...

7 / 10

Falling somewhere between alternative and metal, their chronology (the early 1990s) and location (Seattle) led to Alice in Chains being labeled or marketed...

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It seems inappropriate to call this hard rock.