Alice in Chains

Sean Kinney and Mike Inez are the rhythm section of Alice in Chains -- drum and bass, respectively -- and they were guests of this special edition video interview of the ''Creep Show.' Fresh off two gigs at Terminal 5 all the way over on the West Side in New York City, Kinney and Inez cracked lots of jokes with me, proving that even some of the biggest rock stars of the '90s can be decidedly down

"We wanna thank Alice in Chains for getting us out of Sacramento," Middle Class Rut guitarist Zack Lopez graciously said before the band played their last song on March 9. The California-stationed duo was one hell of an opener, even though they only played for half an hour...

Alice in Chains is one of those '90s radio bands that I thought I'd never get to see growing up. That kind of a show would be way too expensive for my lunch-money-counting butt, and my disco-loving parents wouldn't (and still don't) understand anything rock-related...

"I should have been a doctor and not a musician, 'cause then I would have been healthy all my life ... like you," former Alice in Chains bassist Mike Starr says to Dr. Drew Pinksy. This wasn't a casual chat between friends. Instead, it's an emotional exchange between doctor and patient about heroin, lifelong addiction and the death of original Alice in Chains singer Layne Staley as part

A lot of great metal songs came out in 2009, which is why it has taken us so long to put together a definitive list of the top 10. In the end, there had to be some omissions, and some may seem to be glaring. For instance, there's nothing from Megadeth's killer new album 'Endgame,' Nile's ferocious 'Those Whom the Gods Detest,' Blut Aus Nord's experimental 'Memoria Vetusta II -- Dialogue with the S

One of the coolest young bands to emerge from the new wave of thrash metal is Huddersfield, England's Evile, whose 20007 debut, 'Enter the Grave,' was a scorching blend of Slayer speed and Metallica-style riffs. With their 2009 follow-up, 'Infected Nations,' Evile strived to bust outside the box by creating more original songs without abandoning their core sound...

Metallica took a lot of heat for the sound and direction of their 2003 album 'St. Anger.' A lot of people complained about the drum sound and the stripped-down songwriting approach, but the guys in Stygian beg to differ. The Pennsylvania combo started out playing Metallica covers over a decade ago and cite the legends as one of their prime influences...

"We had no plan to do this, and a couple of years ago, I'd have said no," Alice in Chains drummer Sean Kinney told Noisecreep about the band's reformation after Layne Staley's death. "Just by taking little steps and little opportunities and the chance -- doing it with my buddies -- we ended up in a good place...

When Alice in Chains reformed with a new singer, founders Jerry Cantrell and Sean Kinney knew that people might raise their eyebrows at the band moving forward without late singer Layne Staley. "Jerry and I have devoted more than half our lives to this," drummer Kinney told Noisecreep...

The 2010 Grammys have come and gone, with Taylor Swift and Beyoncé walking away the night's biggest winners, but friend of Noisecreep Rob Halford and British metallers Judas Priest finally took home the bronze statuette for Best Metal Performance, edging out fellow nominees Slayer, Megadeth, Ministry and Lamb of God, who were no-shows at the awards because a massive snowstorm kept them in their na