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Pitchfork 5.7/10 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.
NME 4/5 With their sixth album, the Seattle grungers find beauty in heaviosity to create a life-affirming statement
Rolling Stone 2.5/5 The veteran grunge band feels stuck between gears on their third album since the death of Layne Staley
Blabbermouth.net 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,...
Pop Matters 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...
Spectrum Culture 70% It seems inappropriate to call this hard rock.