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Black Gives Way To Blue | 
| Artist: Alice In Chains
Label: Virgin Records
Category: Music
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Rating:  256 reviews
Sales Rank: 308
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.8 x 0.4
EAN: 5099996715925
ASIN: B0029LHW4U
Release Date: September 29, 2009
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| Tracks:
| • | All Secrets Known | | • | Check My Brain | | • | Last Of My Kind | | • | Your Decision | | • | A Looking In View | | • | When The Sun Rose Again | | • | Acid Bubble | | • | Lessons Learned | | • | Take Her Out | | • | Private Hell | | • | Black Gives Way To Blue. |
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Album Description
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.
Album Description
Limited Edition U.S. digipak pressing. 2009 album from the Alt-Rock quartet, their first to feature vocalist William Duval. Black Gives Way To Blue is the band's first new studio release in more than 10 years. The band, which also includes Jerry Cantrell, Sean Kinney and Mike Inez, recorded the album with producer Nick Raskulinecz (Rush, Foo Fighters) at Studio 606 in Northridge and Henson Studios in Hollywood. 11 tracks.
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 "good" gives way to "good as well" July 27, 2010
A Rooster
Every person is unique and so is every singer. This new singer has to deal with a big legacy of Layne Staley, but the question is not if he is a good stand in, but if he is a good new singer for the band AiC. In my opinion he is that absolutely, and the sound of the band (album and live performing) is still typically AiC. With a bit of another sauce, but that is logical because Layne is, sad enough, dead. If I could choose between no more new AiC-material or this revival, I choose 100% this. I've seen them live and bought (of course) the album and I'm very glad that they are alive again. Next week I'm watching them live for the 2nd time this year and I advise everyone to go out and see AiC!!!...
 Not that great July 24, 2010
Drew Olmsted
I bought this for one song. The rest of the album's not that great. Maybe by the next album they'll hit their stride.
Haunted by your ghost... July 22, 2010
Azazel
Aren't we all, Jerry--haunted by Layne's ghost. I felt it keenly while listening to this, and I still get tears listening to the last song. But the old Alice In Chains is gone, and the new one ain't bad at all. I can't find any fault with William Duvall, he's a very good singer and at times I almost hear Layne's voice in there, William and Jerry harmonize so great together. I like this disc better every time I play it and I hear new things in the lyrics. I hope this band continues and gets even better for the next CD. Rest in peace, Layne...
Black Gives Way to Blue July 17, 2010
MrHemisphere
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A perfectly crafted album that I find myself increasingly wanting to listen to. It is more subtle and purposeful than previous albums, but the amazing harmonies and melodies are still intact - and DuVall is an impressive addition. Highly recommended.
This is just as good or better than anything they have ever released. July 12, 2010
Kevin S. Boatman (Crashville/Music City, USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I had my reservations about this disc.
That was before I heard it.
Now I say this as someone who is hardly a newbie to AIC. I have been with them ever since Dirt in '92.
This is the best album they have ever released, bar none.
For a band to skip 14 years and release a disc that picks up right where they left off is absolutely unbelievable. The disc just blows me away. Jerry's vocals over the years have not suffered in the least. Will DuVall is a fantastic addition to the band. He can sing his azz off, and he adds a second guitar to the mix. Now when Jerry is soloing the rhythm guitar doesn't go away onstage and that lends the band a much fatter linear sound overall. Layne would be proud.
If you have ever been an AIC fan you simply cannot go wrong with this.
Some say they had to have time for the songs to grow on them.
With me, this was not the case. My jaw dropped from the get go.
Those who claim this isn't AIC, it's a Jerry Cantrell disc are just barking dogs.
The only song that is even close to a departure for the band is Take Her Out, and that has more to do with subject matter than anything else. The familiar layered vocals combined with Jerry's singular style of riffage makes this song another classic AIC tune regardless of being about a chick.
This is the best comeback album I have ever heard, and it is VINTAGE ALICE IN CHAINS to boot.
Black Gives Way To Blue will be the second most popular disc from these guys right behind Dirt.
Hell(o), right now I PREFER it to Dirt, and Dirt has aways been my favorite, followed by Jar of Flies/Sap.
Give this a try, you will not be dissapointed. I have been listening to it daily for about 2-3 months now, and I can't stop listening to it.
ALICE IN CHAINS RETURNS WITH THEIR BEST ALBUM EVER.
Thanks guys for soldiering on (even if it is 14 years later).
ALICE RULES!
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