Just curious now that it's out. I haven't heard it yet.
I remember hearing the single and thinking it was okay.. but so far the album is getting good reviews.

Jerry sounds so much like Layne, it's gonna rule.

bennyhillifier
this dude has

hahahahahaha

Much like the old stuff, Jerry writes most of the material on this album, so it sounds like Alice in Chains.

Vocally, Duvall does not sound a thing like Layne, which I like because I would rather have a vocalist who has his own voice rather than one who tries to sound like Layne. Those classic vocal harmonies are all over this album, and they sound great. Great album overall.

i heard it and i enjoyed it.

really really great album. could their best to date. keeps growing on me.

buying this at Walmart later. sucks that Walmart is the only place in a 75 mile radius that i can get tunes, thank god for the intergnat

i think i'm going to buy this today. what i just read is not what i expected.

think i will do the same. i'm expecting this album to help aleviate my shitty mood.

Really? I cant see this being better then dirt,sap etc I do have high hopes fot this record

got it on sale at nubes for $8.99!!

no waaaiiii

Not true.

stylisticly he does.

How are the riffs? Is it dark like their earlier albums? I'm intrigued.

it's very good. Acid Bubble has one of the best riffs Jerry has ever written. I'd say this is on par with Dirt, and I LOVE that album.

spun this start to finish 4-5 times tonight. Didn't take long to grow on me. Would love to see them when they come around

i'm officially obsessed with this record. cannot say enough good things about it. i was really skeptical upon first hearing that radio version of A Looking in View but the album version is 1000x better. cant wait to see these songs performed live.

back'd

i love this album. I'm wearing my AIC shirt today because of how awesome the album is. i wouldn't say it's as good as dirt, but i don't think they could top dirt even if layne staley was still alive. this is a really good record. the title track is my favorite.

after many listens, i think track 3 "last of my kind" is pretty weak compared to the rest of the album. A looking in View is SO good.
I hope they tour with a tolerable band, please NO Godsmack/Niggerback/Creed co headlining bullshit.

twas totally rad when Seemless opened for them at Avalon. wish they would reunite for a tour

yeah been spinning this like a motherfucker, it rules hard

fav. tracks - When the Sun Rose Again, Acid Bubble, Your Decision, Check My Brain

All the positive feedback has made me decide to get it tomorrow, along with the new immortal(ftw). Hopefully it's still $9 at newbury

because of new AIC and new revocation, it has been impossible for me to get more than halfway through the first track on the new immortal.

Newbs sent out their E-Mail and it's gonna be $10 rather than $9 if you want to plan accordingly I guess...? Yeah - I'm bored.

This album is probably worth it for "A looking in view", alone. This shit is sick.

Aren't they doing the tour with Tool?

Hmmm, I buy this next.

no US dates announced yet, just a few before a European tour

i want to know what happened to the DVD that was filmed @ the Lupos show i went to last year. there was 5 or 6 cameras on those crane things and AIC played for nearly 3 hours (including a full acoustic set) fuckin ruled.

this album is great. waaaay better than I thought it was going to be.

the acoustic video from kimmel is great.

After my first listen I'd say this should be mentioned in a "best of 2009" coversation

I hardly buy any CDs anymore, but it looks like I'm going to have to get this today. I've been on a huge AIC kick lately anyway.

Me too.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/10/0.../alice.in.chains.returns/index.html

an okay interview done by CNN

fairly pointless interview. i hate CNN

yea. the one thing I got out of it is the new vocalist's shoe size.

oh and that they sound like Alice In Chains

pirvate hell = awesome song.

every song on here directly affects me in one way or another

the bigger the feet, the bigger the...

the blacker the berry, the sweeter the...

I am the very model of a modern Major-General,
I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral.

This is awesome. Got this and the new immortal(which the photographs inside are worth the price alone). 2 solid purchases. I'm happy.

bennyhillifier

haha, new guy looks like Lenny Kravits. Kick ass though, i never saw them, but he seems like a good guitarist. point being on cd they had another guitar track for solo's or just in general, so it'll be cool to have AIC a 2 guitar live band

you might win a copy of this on RTTP this week...

New singer does play more than Layne did. I wad watching the old MTV set last night... Layne put more feeling in his vocals. Then again I can't judge on that one video above.

Dude looks like Phil Lynott....back from ze dead.

bennyhillifier

I'll be listening to this shortly.

not sure why u guys like this band so much. been a pop bands since 90. sucks. this album sucks. jerry is fat, balding and dyes his hair blonde. and the new singer looks like lenny cravits. every song sounds the same on the new album, and it also has an emo cover of a heart. i mean if u really sit down and think about it this band sucks and only got popular because they sing about drugs

I retract my previous liking for this album due to many valid points by this highly respected musical critic.

Haven't listened yet. But Sean Kinney is a phenomenal drummer. He could play on a polka album and I'd give it an honest listen.

good. maybe u would then realize that u are a fool for listening to pop metal grunge band. might as well listen to nirvana while ur at it too. bunch of stupid people on this site.

Well, I'll listen to Nirvana all day actually. I guess I'm really dumb, fuck. Life is more and more challenging by the day.

oh yea? i bet u read his diaries too. i guess that was leaked on a blog too

just listened to it again. I think there's about 3-4 fillers. but all others are solid, gloomy tracks.
a solid comeback release. I'd give it 92/100 - definitely worthy of top 10 of 2009

i actually have that book that i received as gift for xmas but i refuse to read it out of respect for a dead musician.

I've got those diaries too. I read most of it, skimmed through some. Dude was somewhat of a unique character.
The whole concept is kind of strange though. scanning someone's diaries and making a book out of it for profit. that's like if someone took yuqi hu's private conversations and exposed thos... oh, wait.

fuck this band. being fat, going bald, and bleaching your hair blonde totally ruins any skill one may have as a guitarist, vocalist, or songwriter. no fat balding blonde dudes ever wrote a good lick, let alone album.

Skullet for the win

Tell me about it.

brilliant!

Reposting this. Still in my top 10 albums this year.

not fast enough

I just got this. Some of the weaker songs are meh, but the better songs are solid. I like it.

Yea, I was initially impressed, but I'm starting to think this album has more fillers than their previous albums. But the good songs are really good.

My review after a few months of listening

1. "All Secrets Known" AWESOME
2. "Check My Brain" REALLY GOOD
3. "Last of My Kind" LAME
4. "Your Decision" REALLY GOOD
5. "A Looking in View" GOOD
6. "When the Sun Rose Again" AWESOME
7. "Acid Bubble" INCREDIBLE
8. "Lesson Learned" GOOD
9. "Take Her Out" GOOD
10. "Private Hell" AMAZING
11. "Black Gives Way to Blue" AMAZING

i think last of my kind has a pretty catchy riff...but i can see why you think its lame

Private Hell is my fav.

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love the harmonies in that one

Yea man. That song has a great feel to it too.

I agree with you on all of the above, with the exception of "Last of my kind" I think it's decent, definitely the least good song on the album though

When I get to Newbury Comics this weekend, this is on my shopping list along with the new Revocation. I'm way behind on new albums right now.

I still have not picked that one up yet

Your Decision, Private Hell and Black Gives Way To Blue are the only songs on the album I really care about; everything else is good but this album just didn't grab me the way I was hoping it would.

Fuck! This new shit is fucking awesome

This entire Cd is just amazing. I got it the day it was released and I still listen to it every damn day that goes by on the MP3 player at work. The harmonies and Jerry's playing is just great. It's dark, super depressing and is easily as good as the very early stuff they wrote. Moody as all hell. Jerry has always been AIC as far as writing...so in my eyes AIC still lives. Jerry is still a God!

go to bed, high school starts early!

Just as soon as I yank it out of your Mom's asshole and give her a Shitler.

Picked up this album over the weekend. Fucking love it.

album is amazing but guess what alice in chains along with mega death and some other band are going to louisville kentucky to play at rupp arena (?) ITS GOING TO BE SICK AS FUCK

mega death is awesome.

I dig it. I think it's a good come back record that doesn't reek of the usual money-making motives, or "can't let go" attitude. I have a feeling that their next one will be significantly better (if there is a next one).

The songs, for the most part, are great. "Last of My Kind" is the weakest for sure. "Private Hell", "When the Sun Rose Again", and "All Secrets Known" are my favorites. "Acid Bubble" is so fucking filthy and sludgy... Love it. In general, I dig how slow and grimey everything sounds.

I can't say I'm a huge fan of Duvall's vocals on their own, but blended with Jerry's, I think he does a good job of doing the AIC harmony sound. It's actually pretty scary how much it sounds like the old stuff at times. I was happy to find out that Cantrell does the majority of the lead vocals though. Great hearing his guitar sound again as well. He's probably my favorite modern rock guitarist (I certainly rip off his soloing style more than any other).

All in all, a very sincere effort, and that's coming from someone who really didn't want to like it, as I'm a HUGE Layne Staley fan. A pleasant surprise.

I agree. If there is a follow up, I bet it'd top this album.

i like the fact that alice in chains when their other singer died that they still wanted to keep their original style and try not to go all grr on everyone long live alice in chains.

hearing this for the first time, surprisingly GOOD.

totally awesome record. Not quite the next "DIRT", but still, definitely worthwhile.

I'm currently listening to solo Cantrell stuff.

So go play in the solo cantrell thread.


This is officially a FUZZY AFRO LENNY KRAVITZ LOOKING MOTHERFUCKER only Alice in Chains thread.

And new album is awesome. Really is their best stuff, I agree. Much like Facelift, Jerry had PLENTY of time to write great songs. Not a bad one on there.

New album coming out real soon. I don't think I'll ever lose interest in this band, though the last album had some fillers coupled with some great songs.

Fucking love 'em.....best band on Earth...EVAR!

Alice in Chains are playing at the Comcast Center in August, two days after Black Sabbath actually, along with Jane's Addiction, Coheed & Cambria and a shit ton of other artists.

I'm somewhat considering going, but I don't know. How often does AiC tour, does anyone here know? If they tour every year or so, then I may just wait for their next independent tour since I imagine tickets will be about the same price either way.

Cool story

my big sister took me to Lotfullalozahs in 94 and I saw the real AiC along with RATM, Porno for Pyros and tons of other awesome grunge bands of the day...

I also saw Jerry Cantrell in like 2001 and he had some Lenny Kravitz lookalike going Laynes parts and he sounded perfect. great show cause he did mostly AiC songs...

I'd consider going to see the show at the Comcast Center but I want to go see Sabbath too and I doubt I could manage both.

Sabbath WITH AiC would be fucking awesome.

Dude, it's Lawnforloozers. Was that the one at Quonset Point? If so, I was there. I remember that Layne just sat on a stool for their whole set, but still got the job done and they sounded great. I don't remember much else about that show -- the mid-90s were a bit hazy for me.

yep Quonset..i have a shirt somewhere. its an XL cause baggy was the style at the time

i had an onion in my pocket, which was the style at the time, ya see?

Yup, stupid baggy t-shirts and stupid baggy pants. I still wear XL t-shirts, but they don't fit baggy anymore.

I was a cut off camo shorts/LL Bean flannel shirt guy at this point of my youth. I went to summer camp that year with Pearl Jam Ten, Jar of Flies and In Utero in my walkman and listened to them non stop for 2 weeks..

The good ol days.

... When spence was an infant?

I was a sophomore at URhIgh (and I sure was). If I wasn't careful back then, I may have ended up with a Spence of my own, perish the thought.

Spence was indeed an infant in the mid-90's.

The good old days indeed.

Surprised people on here actually like the new stuff. I really do not at all. And I have no interest in seeing them live with the minority scab singer who sounds nothing like Layne , ugh makes me ill thinking about it.

AIC was my favorite band along with Tool in the 90's.

Shut up