* Voices
* Low Ceiling
* Stone
* The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here
* Hollow
* Lab Monkey
* Hung On A Hook
* Pretty Done
* Breath On A Window
* Choke
* Phantom Limb

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BQ1D7X4/?tag=imwan-20

from hennemusic.com:

Monday, December 5, 2011Alice In Chains: new album update
In 2009, Alice In Chains fans were treated to “Black Gives Way To Blue,” the band’s first new album in 14 years.

Singer Layne Staley’s addictions, and his eventual death in 2002, made it a difficult task for the remaining members – guitarist Jerry Cantrell, bassist Mike Inez and drummer Sean Kinney – to pick up the pieces and get the band back on its legs.

The addition of singer William Duvall to the lineup in 2005 put Alice back on track, with the band returning to live shows with the full support of fans and fellow musicians.

Cantrell recently took part in an ESPN chat to discuss "Alice in Chains & Friends Fantasy Football Charity League”; he was asked about the band’s return.

“It was good. Geez, we started playing in 2005 and doing some shows,” said Cantrell. “It kind of grew into something a lot larger than we anticipated. It was all good. Some of the best things in life are those that are unexpected. To recreate ourselves without losing our identity and having the fans support us through that and have the quality of music come out like it did. Transitioning from the old lineup of the band and moving on, it was a lot. It's a career worth of changes in 6-7 years. It's nice to have a second life and we're in the midst of that.”

With the 2009 release behind them, Alice is moving forward with work on a new album, but are keeping their options open in terms of the timeline for the project.

“Whenever we're done,” Jerry says. “Schedules in music, I know people have done it and say you need an album out by this date and you're talking about album tour, it can burn you out quickly. It did with our band. We've been fortunate to be partnered up with companies that respect the process. We're never really forced to make music. If it doesn't happen, then it doesn't. We've been writing a lot. I also had shoulder surgery earlier this year. I'm at the tail end of rehabbing that. That put us back a little bit. But we have some stuff. We'll do some writing. Hopefully we'll have it out next year. We'll put it out when we feel that it's worth putting out.”

Alice recently played show in Chile and Brazil, and the guitarist raved about the experience.

“We did that a few weeks ago. We hadn't been down there since '93,” says Cantrell. “We did two shows there. This time we got a chance to go to another country. The people there were so nice. The crowds were great. We played with a lot of our buddies and guys we admire. I got to go golfing in Santiago. It was beautiful. The course was right below the mountain range there. I didn't bring my clubs or shoes. People are shorter down there, so I'm just wacking it all over the place. I'm golfing in my Chuck Taylors. By the 13-14 hole, my feet are killing me. The shows were great, the people were exceptionally nice. I'd love to get back.”

Alice In Chains guitarist Jerry Cantrell has confirmed that the band has completed recording its new album.

Joined by singer William DuVall, bassist Mike Inez and drummer Sean Kinney, Cantrell recently wrapped up the album sessions with producer Nick Raskulinecz (Rush, Foo Fighters, Deftones) and engineer Paul Figueroa.

The follow-up to 2009’s “Black Gives Way To Blue” is the band’s second record with DuVall; original lead singer Layne Staley died in 2002.

"In my opinion, that record stood up to anything else we’ve put out in our career," Cantrell tells Guitar World. "And this new one is right up there as well."

Alice In Chains currently have two 2013 concert dates on their schedule: UK’s Download Festival on June 14 and Brazil’s Rock In Rio on September 13.

Awesome. Black Gives Way to Blue was stellar. Really looking forward to this. I saw them with the new lineup in like their third or fourth show ever, and they blew the roof off the place. A tall feat, considering it was outdoors.

New song

The more I hear this song I love it. It's 100% the classic Alice In Chains sound. Jerry Cantrell is truly awesome. The last album was so good and such a success I don't doubt this will be well-received. My favorite part of this song is the bridge. The video reminds me of the movie Moon.

AIC, Soundgarden and Cheap Trick are here for an outdoor show May 18. I don't know if that's just our local rock station's BBQ show or a tour but that is an awesome bill.

Alice In Chains revealed on Thursday that they will be releasing their new album, The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here, in May.
The new album following their acclaimed 2009 comeback album "Black Gives Way To Blue" and was produced by Nick Raskulinecz (Foo Fighters, Deftones).

The band will be launching a North American tour on April 25th in Miami. The trek is set to run until May 25th with their appearance at Rocklahoma.

The band have also announced appearances at two international music festivals; the Download Festival at Donnington Park in England and the Rock in Rio festival in Brazil.

Apr 25 - Miami Beach, FL - The Fillmore
Apr 26 - Tampa, FL - WXTB Rockfest
Apr 27 - Jacksonville, FL - Welcome To Rockville
Apr 30 - Birmingham, AL - BJCC Concert Hall
May 2013
May 1 - Augusta, GA - William B. Bell Auditorium
May 4 - Charlotte, NC - Carolina Rebellion
May 5 - Norfolk, VA - Norva
May 7 - Bethlehem, PA - Sands Event Center
May 8 - Pittsburgh, PA - Benedum Center
May 10 - Boone, IA - Central Iowa Expo
May 12 - St. Louis, MO - KPNT Pointfest
May 14 - Sioux Falls, SD - Lyons Fairgrounds
May 15 - Milwaukee, WI - Eagles Ballroom
May 18 - Philadelphia, PA - Susquehanna Bank Center
May 19 - Columbus, OH - Rock On The Range
May 21 - Ft. Wayne, IN - Embassy Theatre
May 22 - Evansville, IN - Aiken Theatre
May 24 - Lincoln, NE - Pinewood Bowl Amphitheater
May 25 - Pryor, Oklahoma - Rocklahoma
June 2013
Jun 15 - Donington Park, England - Download Festival
September 2013
Sep 19 - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Rock in Rio

Alice In Chains will release their new album, “The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here,” in May.

The follow-up to 2009’s “Black Gives Way To Blue” is the group’s second effort with singer William DuVall.

The project was recorded in Los Angeles with producer Nick Raskulinecz (Foo Fighters, Deftones) and, according to guitarist Jerry Cantrell, the band “made a unique record that's completely different from anything we ever did. It encapsulates a period of time, like all records do. You see growth and that the band is moving ahead in new territory that we haven't been to before, but we haven't lost our identity."

"There's some real filth in there,” Cantrell tells Rolling Stone. “That's intentional, and that's also just how we sound together. We're trying to make a record that we dig and we're trying to keep the bar high for ourselves and see if we can get past it, and I think that we did again. And of course you want people to dig it too and to respond to it, and to have that start happening is satisfying."

It's started happening with the lead single and opening track, "Hollow," which hit Number One on the rock radio charts. Despite the fact that Alice in Chains' forays into the murky waters have consistently proven to lead to both commercial and radio success, Cantrell was still pleasantly surprised by the song's immediate acceptance.

"The initial response to 'Hollow' has been fucking incredible, totally not what we intended, and that's fucking awesome," he says. "We just put that song out there for the fans and then it ended up turning into a number one single, a six-minute sludgy metal tune. That's always fun, to see something like that happen."

Alice In Chains kick off their 2013 live dates in late April.

"Hollow" is awesome. It rocks.

Tracklist and cover:



* Voices
* Low Ceiling
* Stone
* The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here
* Hollow
* Lab Monkey
* Hung On A Hook
* Pretty Done
* Breath On A Window
* Choke
* Phantom Limb

My mother hung me on a hook once.



Once.

Bump: The pre-order link in the first post is now live, with the album scheduled for release on May 28th.

"Stone", first the lyric video then the final conceptual video

Great video! Really good Jerry Cantrell lead there. Wish he hadn't cut his hair, though!

For anyone in the Seattle area that's interested - the band is doing an in-store signing at the Alderwood Best Buy on the 28th at 6pm.

Through the good and the bad, Alice in Chains unbroken
The band revamped its lineup after the 2002 death of its lead singer, and its newest album, 'The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here,' is No. 1 on iTunes' rock album chart.

By Steve Appleford, Los Angeles Times
May 29, 2013
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/mu ... full.story



Even at the worst of times, one facet of the Alice in Chains saga was never in doubt: the longtime friendship of founding members Jerry Cantrell and Sean Kinney. The guitarist and drummer met when the hard-rock band formed in 1987 and have grown only closer through the years of success and tragedy.

"He's my absolute best friend," says Cantrell, 47, the band's guitarist and co-vocalist. "I've never been committed to anything for this long through the good and the bad. And we're still doing this, which says a lot. It's meaningful."

This week's release of "The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here," the second album from the resurrected band, is another sign that Alice in Chains lives on.

With bassist Mike Inez (who joined in 1993) and singer-guitarist William DuVall, the band's unexpected second act follows an excruciating decade of inactivity and the 2002 overdose death of singer Layne Staley. After the release of 2009's "Black Gives Way to Blue," which reached No. 5 on the Billboard album chart, those days seem far away now. The new album is currently No. 1 on iTunes' rock album chart.

"It's friends first and then all the rest," says Kinney, 47, on the phone from a tour stop in Fort Wayne, Ind. "It's not really worth doing unless you enjoy the people you're doing it with. None of us are fame seekers. We're not out working our own brands independently, putting out hot sauce and [stuff]. We're lucky that anyone ever cared. We know that."

Alice in Chains is headlining the Uproar Festival tour, which lands at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater on Sept. 15. It's one stop on a year of touring still ahead of the quartet.

From the first moments of the new album's opening track, "Hollow," guitars grind a familiar sound of heavy riffs that straddle metal and alternative rock, echoing the Seattle act's time amid the '90s grunge movement. Haunted voices harmonize a cryptic lyric: "All of the faces life can show / Withered and ugly the one you know."

Work on "The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here" began before the band's last tour ended in 2011. On the road, Cantrell and Kinney typically spent at least 30 minutes warming up on instruments before stepping onstage, and song ideas would frequently emerge from those informal sessions. The basic riff for "Hollow" came to Cantrell while in Las Vegas for that tour's final date.

"It's like walking on the beach and picking up cool stones," Cantrell says of the gathering of ideas. "At the end of a year or two, you look in your sack and see what you've collected. Maybe some of the things you thought were good don't work for you anymore, but a lot of them are good to start building with."

The recording was delayed when Cantrell required surgery in his right shoulder for a repetitive motion injury to his cartilage. While recuperating at home in a sling, Cantrell heard a riff in his head and sang it into his iPhone. The riff later became the song "Stone," the first official single off "The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here."

"I think we needed some time anyway. My body created a kind of vacation for me, rather than jump back in right away," Cantrell said. "It's good to step away once in a while. You don't have to hit it so hard. You'll break."

Band members recorded song demos at home, and began fleshing out their ideas during sessions in rehearsal spaces in the San Fernando Valley before going into Henson Studios with producer Nick Raskulinecz, their collaborator on "Black Gives Way to Blue."

For Alice in Chains, and especially new singer DuVall, that last album was a crucial test for both the band as a creative entity and its audience. The singer now describes the process as "asserting our right to exist. We were doing that with a great deal of static and noise."

Few major rock acts had successfully replaced a lead vocalist, particularly one as well known as Staley. But the gradual, careful rolling out of the new Alice in Chains lineup through international touring beginning in 2006 was embraced enough by fans to give the reunited band a gold album with "Black Gives Way to Blue."

"We said saying goodbye to Layne with that [title] song, and those onion skins that you have to shed to get through stuff," says bassist Inez. "That for me started to solidify, 'I think we can go on and be OK.' It's really a testament to our friendship that we made those decisions to choose life together and to go forward as a team shoulder to shoulder."

The success of that album was freeing to DuVall, who could now imagine expanding the definition of what an Alice in Chains album could be. He points to the title song on "The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here," a rare excursion into social commentary for a hard-rock act mostly obsessed with internal struggles.

Co-written by Cantrell, Inez and Kinney, the song rages against religion and intolerance.

For DuVall, it is a sign of the disturbing political and social divisions Americans now live with. "You're seeing elected officials saying things in the national media that you simply cannot believe, and it's happening almost on a daily basis," says DuVall, who splits his time between Los Angeles and Atlanta. "Who has equal protection under the law? Who has the right to get married?

"To that, we felt it was time to comment. Beyond that, it's not like the album turned into a dissertation on the times we live in or the political landscape. We're still dealing very much with what goes on inside."

More along those lines is the brooding "Stone," a song of heavy tension sung by Cantrell: "What makes you want to carve your initials in me? . . . Find me distant, outwardly rough obscene."

"It seems to be about confronting outside misperceptions," says DuVall. "You think you know me? You don't."

Since you all are saying positive things about this, I'll have to give it a listen. AIC is one of numerous 80's & 90's bands I liked in their heyday that haven't aged real well for me. They still have about 10 songs I like, but I suspect the right greatest hits comp (one I would need to put together) would probably do it for me. I still own most of their catalog with Staley, but with my likely need to downsize, that may change.

It's fairly good. Kind of similar to the last one. William Duvall isn't as prominent. Not a lot of variety in tempos, but I'm OK with it.

Yeah, this is good, but not as good as the last one which was fantastic.

However, nothing to be ashamed of here as this is of high quality and vey much in the AIC classic mold. They've already scored 2 #1 Album Rock Radio hits from this with "Hollow" and "Stone". I'd expect the album to be another Top 10 for them next week.

Jerry's guitar work remains awesome. They have never put out a bad album.

My wife is big into Alice In Chains, and her birthday is next week--by any chance, do any of the big box stores have some sort of retail exclusive edition?