https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1rXKjT-6Y4
Alice in Chains: The Making of Dirt, The Dark History of the album and Layne Staley's struggles. Alice in Chains Rooster:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu8N

https://medium.com/@detroitzdarling/alice-in-chains-dirt-a-dark-reflection-of-layne-staley-s-struggles-6eb8ae63dd4a
"Dirt," the second studio album by American rock band Alice in Chains, was released on September 29, 1992. This album is often considered the band's darkest work, reflecting the personal

https://www.loudersound.com/features/alice-in-chains-black-gives-way-to-blue-album-interview
To really understand just how unlikely today's story is, you have to look back to what happened with Layne's death, an event that seemed to seal the fate of the band whose crushingly heavy 1990 Facelift debut stormed the airwaves and spearheaded a so-called 'Seattle sound' that would soon rattle the globe. After all, when Layne passed away Alice In Chains hadn't toured in six years.

https://www.grunge.com/205459/the-tragic-real-life-story-of-alice-in-chains/
Layne Staley's tragic loss. YouTube. Alice in Chains frontman Layne Staley lived a life that was full of tragedy and doom, but as the A.V. Club tells us, the people close to the singer appear to think that a very specific point in time marked the start of his darkness. In October 1996, Staley was deeply shocked by the death of Demri Parrott

https://www.guitarworld.com/magazine/alice-chains-untold-story-layne-staleys-final-gloomy-days-frontman-seattles-grunge-legends
In this saddening except from Alice in Chains: The Untold Story, author David De Sola recounts the final gloomy days of frontman Layne Staley. In April of 1997, an entity known as the Larusta Trust bought a three bedroom, 1,500 square-foot fifth-floor condominium at a building in Seattle's University District for $262,000.

https://consequence.net/2022/09/alice-in-chains-dirt-album-anniversary/
Dirt, from top to bottom, is just an assault, man. It's beautiful, it's moody, and it's no-f**king-holds-barred — no punches pulled at all. Beautiful, dark, and ugly at the same time.". Alice in Chains' second album yielded several classic hits, but also offered a brutally honest look at the drug culture surrounding the band.

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/alice-in-chains-dirt/
At one point, the host gave the floor to an 18-year-old audience member named Layne Staley, who at the time was fronting a local glam-metal band called Sleze, and offered a personal take on the

https://www.grunge.com/238445/the-tragic-death-of-alice-in-chains-layne-staley/
Unfortunately, Staley wouldn't be long for this world. In 2002, the acclaimed frontman died at the young age of 34, shocking the world and sending the band in turmoil for years. Though Alice in Chains ultimately returned with guitarist-vocalist Jerry Cantrell and new member William DuVall sharing vocal duties, Staley remains a beloved figure in

https://www.kerrang.com/alice-in-chains-enigmatic-power-inner-torment-layne-staley
On July 3, 1996, Alice In Chains played their final show with Layne Staley. Here, Mörat trawls through the darkness of Layne's life, and pays tribute to the man who "should be remembered for

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-apr-21-me-staley21-story.html
TIMES STAFF WRITER. Layne Staley, the Alice in Chains lead singer who rose to rock stardom a decade ago with a series of songs about battling personal demons, is dead at 34. The King County

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/alice-in-chains-to-hell-and-back-244775/
Layne Staley, lead singer of Alice In Chains performing on MTV Unplugged in 1996. Frank Micelotta/Getty. T urning the steering wheel hard to the right and stomping his foot on the gas, Alice in

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/04/how-alice-in-chains-found-the-most-memorable-voice-in-grunge/255469/
Appreciating the vocal style of Layne Staley on the 10th anniversary of the singer's death. Alice in Chains. The Seattle grunge scene that transformed rock in the '90s produced four great voices

https://allthatsinteresting.com/layne-staley-death
Published February 26, 2024. Updated February 28, 2024. After a long struggle with drug addiction, Alice in Chains singer Layne Staley died of a speedball overdose on April 5, 2002 — but his body wasn't discovered for two weeks. Layne Staley's death did not come in a single moment. Rather, the Alice in Chains singer's tragic demise at the

https://www.popmatters.com/layne-staley-alice-in-chains
Alice in Chains has been out of action since the 1994 EP 'Jar of Flies'. The band's inactivity is because Layne Staley would not, or could not, get his shit together. It didn't take long

https://thedonstone.com/alice-in-chains-dirt/
The Musicians Behind the Veil. Alice in Chains, led by the incomparable Layne Staley on vocals and Jerry Cantrell on guitar, embarked on a sonic journey with Dirt that would redefine the grunge movement. Staley's hauntingly soulful vocals, coupled with Cantrell's masterful guitar work, created an alchemy that struck chords deep within the collective consciousness of a generation.

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/dark-concept-album-hidden-in-alice-in-chains-dirt/
Combing through each track on Dirt, the linear story reads like a dark concept album centred around a man slowly withering away to addiction. Starting with a cry of agony from Staley on 'Them Bones', the tone is dour from the first handful of riffs, with Cantrell and Staley discussing how both of them will turn to dust pretty soon.

https://www.billboard.com/music/rock/alice-in-chains-dirt-anniversary-7981797/#!
The band is now working on a sixth album, set to drop early 2018. Dirt is, however (and will forever remain), Alice in Chains' artistic high water mark. The emotional heft is overwhelming, the

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layne_Staley
Layne Thomas Staley (born Layne Rutherford Staley; August 22, 1967 - April 5, 2002) was an American singer and songwriter who was the original lead vocalist of Alice in Chains, which rose to international fame in the early 1990s as part of Seattle's grunge movement. He was known for his distinctive vocal style as well as his harmonizing with bandmate Jerry Cantrell.

https://www.loudersound.com/features/watch-an-unrecognisable-layne-staley-fronting-hair-metal-era-alice-in-chains-in-1986
published 2 October 2020. Archive footage shows 18-year-old Layne Staley singing with Alice N' Chains - minus Jerry Cantrell, but with a hell of a lot of hairspray. Layne Staley was one of the great icons of grunge. A tortured soul who exorcised his demons through music, until those demons eventually got the better of him, leaving behind a

https://www.revolvermag.com/music/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-alice-chains-dirt
6. In the lyrics to the album's title track Staley sings about being covered with dirt. One night on tour, he and his bandmates literally were. Rock bands that are on the road together have a history of pranking one another. But fellow Seattle-ites Gruntruck may have pulled one of the best on Alice in Chains during their tour together in late 1992.

https://www.loudersound.com/features/alice-in-chains-dirt-facts
2. The Araya-enhanced Iron Gland was built on a Layne Staley riff the rest of the band hated. Sticking with Tom Araya, the Slayer frontman contributed his distinctive howl to the 43-second interlude Iron Gland.The track was built around a riff written by vocalist Layne Staley that sounds a lot like Black Sabbath's Iron Man if you dipped it in tar and rolled it through an abattoir.

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/alice-in-chains-dirt/
That success hardly seemed a harbinger for the dark opus that came in its wake -- Dirt, a 13-track set that came out on Sept. 29, 1992 and vaulted Alive in Chains to status as one of the grunge

https://www.classicrockreview.com/2012/06/1992-alice-in-chains-dirt/
Buy Dirt. The band which practically invented the genre of dark alternative metal, Alice In Chains bridged the gap between the "traditional" heavy metal and the new, alternative inspired "fusion" metals which began to proliferate in the 1990s. With their second album, Dirt the band really came of age. The album was very well received by music critics and sold well commercially, having