Alice In Chains – Black Gives Way To Blue

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  Artist:      Alice In Chains
  Album:       Black Gives Way To Blue
  Label:       EMI
  Playtime:    54:13 min
  Genre:       Rock
  URL:         http://www.myspace.com/aliceinchains
  Rip date:    2009-09-23
  Street date: 2009-09-29
  Size:        89.72 MB
  Type:        Normal
  Quality:     217 kbps / 4410kHz / Joint Stereo

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   ALICE IN CHAINS
   Jerry Cantrell – guitars/vocals
   Sean Kinney – drums
   Mike Inez – bass
   William DuVall – guitars/vocals
 
   The new Alice In Chains album Black
   Gives Way To Blue is the sound of a new beginning of a legendary band
   returning to life. Right from the album’s powerful and deeply meaningful
   opener “All Secrets Known” through its redemptive closing title track, Black
   Gives Way To Blue-the first new Alice In Chains album in more than 14
   years-is not just another rock reunion, but something far more inspiring.
   Alice In Chains in the present tense. No replacements. No substitutions. It
   does no disrespect to the enduring memory of Alice In Chains’ late, great
   lead singer Layne Staley, to say that for all that he brought to the group’s
   music in his lifetime, Alice In Chains always was-and always will be-very
   much a band. So after taking a more than respectful break to mourn the loss
   of their brother and band mate-to heal and explore music individually-the
   surviving members of Alice In Chains-Cantrell, drummer Sean Kinney and
   bassist Mike Inez-gradually began to make music again. The band came together
   for the first time in 2005 to take part in a benefit for the victims of the
   tsunami in Indonesia. The following year, Cantrell, Kinney and Inez decided
   that the time was right for Alice In Chains to reclaim its legacy again on
   tour. They did so with the help of a new guitarist and vocalist William
   DuVall, a gifted singer and player in his own right from Atlanta who
   previously worked with Neon Christ, Comes with the Fall, and as part of Jerry
   Cantrell’s touring band. As live audiences discovered, DuVall brings a sound
   and stage presence all his own. Yet when DuVall and Cantrell blend their
   voices-as Cantrell and Staley did so often-there could be little doubt that
   the spirit of Alice In Chains was once again alive and well. Black Gives Way
   To Blue is the next step for a group that over the course of their career
   earned multiple Grammy nominations and sold more than 19 million albums
   worldwide and achieved 11 Top Ten singles. At the same time, the album offers
   the full, bracing impact of Alice In Chains-a band that kept heavy rock
   exciting at the dawn of the Nineties and helped set the stage for an even
   grungier Seattle sound-still clearly firing on all cylinders. Recording on
   Black Gives Way To Blue began in October of 2008 at Dave Grohl’s Studio 606
   in Northridge and finished at Henson Studios in Hollywood. The band produced
   the album with Nick Raskulinecz, whose past credits include Foo Fighters and
   Rush. Black Gives Way To Blue combines some classic Alice In Chain textures
   with a renewed sense of energy and possibility,from the epic and
   fantastically electric rocker “A Looking In View” to the exquisite and
   romantic ballad “Your Decision” to the album’s stunning first single “Check
   My Brain,” a throbbing rocker in which a band associated with the Pacific
   Northwest makes a wry and witty observation on working and living in
   California. Through Black Gives Way To Blue, there is a deep sense of the
   unique life that this band haslived, of “Lesson Learned,” to borrow the title
   of another standout track. In the end, the album offers a kind of shared
   group autobiography by a band that has survived so much. Together, they are
   in a way “Last Of My Kind,” to use the title of another album highlight
   penned by Jerry Cantrell-long a dominant songwriter within Alice In
   Chains-with lyrics from DuVall. “Imitations are pale,” DuVall and Cantrell
   sing together on “Black Gives Way To Blue,” a brand new Alice In Chain
   classic that really has it all-the brooding hurt, the brute force and the
   beautiful introspection. Listen closely to Black Gives Way To Blue, and
   you’ll know right away this is Alice In Chains.

- Track List —————————————————————- -

  01. All Secrets Known                                                 ( 4:42)
  02. Check My Brain                                                    ( 3:57)
  03. Last Of My Kind                                                   ( 5:52)
  04. Your Decision                                                     ( 4:43)
  05. A Looking In View                                                 ( 7:06)
  06. When The Sun Rose Again                                           ( 4:00)
  07. Acid Bubble                                                       ( 6:56)
  08. Lesson Learned                                                    ( 4:16)
  09. Take Her Out                                                      ( 4:00)
  10. Private Hell                                                      ( 5:38)
  11. Black Gives Way To Blue                                           ( 3:03)

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