Alice in Chains

Remember a week or so ago, when Five Finger Death Punch announced that guitarist Zoltan Bathory had gone missing in Las Vegas? Well, Zoltan's finally speaking about what really went down over those three days the band couldn't track him down...

When Dave Witte isn't rocking the drums with Municipal Waste, he's got a surfeit of other projects going on. But sadly, his activities with harrowing noise band Burnt by the Sun seem to be coming to an end. Hours after joining us on ''Creep Show,' Witte headed into band rehearsal for the only scheduled U...

Replacing a band member after their death is an exceptionally difficult decision for all kinds of reasons. Led Zeppelin chose to disband when drummer John Bonham died, while AC/DC quickly recruited Brian Johnson after Bon Scott's passing. Inevitably, the guys in Alice in Chains get the same question, since they've been touring again since Layne Staley's death in 2002, and have just released their

In the song 'Type,' from Living Colour's second album, 1990's 'Time's Up,' frontman Corey Glover sings about people's need to compartmentalize things in order to understand them: "Stereotype, monotype, blood type, are you my type?/Minimalism, abstract impressionism, post-modernism, is it...

This past week, metal releases came out of the woodwork. And with it came eye-popping first week numbers and even a top 10 debut. Reported by the folks at Metal Insider, this past week drew in a #35 debut for the good guys in Shadows Fall with their latest album 'Retribution,' Porucipine Tree came in with 17,500 albums sold in its first week, and the MVP of metal of course goes to long time thrash

Alice In Chains' first studio album since the death of singer Layne Staley and introduction of William DuVall leads with these telling words: "A new beginning/Time to start living ... There's no going back ..." The song from the new album, 'Black Gives Way to Blue,' out Sept...

Here's a question for all of you, especially you heavy metal publicists out there: What's the difference between a 'break up' and an 'indefinite hiatus'? We ask because, as we reported last week, He Is Legend has called it quits. But they haven't 'broken up...

In a recent blog post, Michigan's Chiodos have announced the firing of frontman Craig Owens, a founding member of the post-hardcore outfit. The band's statement, address to "our friends, family, and fans," says that Owens was let go, and that the decision was "a necessary one...

What a friggin' tease! We awoke this morning, thinking that today was the day Alice in Chains' 'Black Give Way to Blue' would finally be in stores, only to discover that the Internet lied. Not the whole Internet. Just a few metal sites we've come to trust...

After 14 years, Alice In Chains is still a household name. Many musicians were inspired by the band's releases during the height of grunge and '90s alternative rock, and the death of vocalist Layne Staley in 2002 was a shock in the music world...