The tracks 'Grind', 'Heaven Beside You' and 'Again' were released as singles. 1 on the Billboard 200 and stayed on the chart for 46 weeks. This is the band's first full-length studio album to feature bassist Mike Inez their last album to feature original lead vocalist Layne Staley, who died in 2002 and their last album to be released on Columbia Records. It was released on Novemthrough Columbia Records, and was the follow-up to the highly successful Dirt (1992). RIP chap.Alternative Metal, Grunge, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Sludge Metal Īpril-August 1995 Bad Animals Studio, SeattleĪlice in Chains (occasionally informally referred to as The Dog Album, The Dog Record, and Tripod) is the self-titled third studio album by the American rock band Alice in Chains. I don’t blame him for ending up the way he did, considering his life experiences. Which is sad for his friends, family & the music industry. Some, like the lead singer of Alice in Chains, I don’t think wanted saving. But these past few years have given me many things & one of those things is an appreciation that there are so many colours in the spectrum & not everything is as black & white as drugs & addicts are not worth at least attempting to understand & help. We don’t want that for our loved ones but wouldn’t it be better to find out why someone does any of the above, rather than just slate the person? Im not a user of drugs or alcohol (except prescribed pain killers) btw. I get that people don’t want that around their lives & for their loved ones, but its very easy to become a lost soul & try to find yourself in anything, be that drink, drugs, self harm, etc. He just knows that he is meant to despise drug users. I heard someone recently say, “whats the loss in a junky” & I say, fuck him. The sadness of their story & the lost of the lead singer & his artistic ability still shining through despite his loss & addiction is admirable. My own stupidity cost me years of enjoying a bands brilliance. Recent live events have given me a lot of free time in recent years & recently ‘discovered’ that I was far too hasty by dismissing them, & have been enjoying their music as much as I ever did with Nirvana & Pearl Jam. Weirdly, living through Nirvana, Pearl Jam, etc, era, I always just overlooked Alice in Chains because I heard one of their tunes & I wasn’t overly impressed by them.

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