★★★★★
????? Normally when your lead singer dies, that spells curtains for a band. But Alice in Chains was always more about Jerry Cantrell than Layne Staley arguably speaking. And the guitarist's decision to resurrect the name (TK) years after the enigmatic and troubled original vocalist for the Seattle grunge titans succumbed to his crippling narcotic addiction has given considerable weight to that argument...
- www.glidemagazine.com
2013-07-01
★★★★★
In metal, frontmen have long been replaceable entities. Even so, following the death of Layne Staley in 2002, few would have predicted that Alice In Chains had much of a future. Happily, the band's fifth album proves that their 2009 comeback 'Black Gives Way To Blue' was no fluke. New vocalist William DuVall has made the role his own, while the likes of 'Stone' and 'Phantom Limb' confirm that Jerry Cantrell's megalithic riffs were always what made them special in the first place...
- www.nme.com
2013-06-25
★★★★★
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- www.thevine.com.au
2013-06-14
★★★★★
"'The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here' largely replicates the formula that the 21st century incarnation of Alice In Chains laid down on 2009's masterpiece 'Black Gives Way To Blue.'" "Black Gives Way To Blue" was the Alice In Chains equivalent of AC/DC's "Back In Black," in that it found the band rebounding from the death of its frontman with an album that both respected what came before and charted a new direction...
- www.metalunderground.com
2013-06-14
★★★★★
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Release Date: May 28, 2013Label: Virgin
We used to dread our favorite bands reuniting, which says a lot about either diminishing returns or our faith in the people we decide are geniuses. That goes fivefold when one of the band's geniuses is dead...
- www.spin.com
2013-06-07
★★★★★
There's also no doubt in my mind that if you're a sucker for filth, grime, and still bear the softest of spots for the Seattle grunge movement of the nineties, you're in for a treat. This is as Alice in Chains as it gets: warmongering riffs, alluringly haunting vocal harmonies and a sinister tone that maintains the band's identity with as much aplomb as when the late great Layne Staley was urging forward his tensed-throat vocals in the early nineties...
- www.noripcord.com
2013-06-05
★★★★★
Alice in Chains were one of the most successful grunge acts of the 1990s, but they were also one of the most derided. They started life as a glam-derived metal band, for which they were dismissed by the same people who embraced Seattle's other big glam-derived metal band, Mother Love Bone. Layne Staley's drug metaphors and horror-show vocals made hits out of "Man in the Box" and "Would...
- pitchfork.com
2013-06-04
★★★★★
Goto commentsLeave a commentTweetShare The Dinosaurs Knew Better Seven years after original vocalist Layne Staley's death in 2002, Alice in Chains regrouped with new vocalist William DuVall and released Black Gives Way to Blue, a formidable rebirth, its acclaim amplified by nostalgia created by fourteen years without new music...
- www.mxdwn.com
2013-06-04
★★★★★
Alice in Chains' last album, 2009's Black Gives Way to Blue , came with plenty of baggage. After the band's studio hiatus of nearly 14 years, Black shouldered the burdensome moniker of "comeback album," with loyal listeners--now sporting mortgages and Mazdas rather than ripped jeans and flannel--anticipating the record with that peculiar amalgam of giddiness and trepidation that comes when something precious buried in our youth later gets unearthed in middle age...
- consequenceofsound.net
2013-06-01
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