Alice In Chains

Alice In Chains – Dirt (2022 Remaster) (1992/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 57:33 minutes | 693 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia

Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, will release a remastered 30th anniversary 2LP 12″ black vinyl edition of Alice In Chains’ landmark album, Dirt, on Friday, September 23.

Columbia/Legacy’s 30th anniversary edition of Alice In Chains’ Dirt, featuring remastered audio, may be pre-ordered HERE.
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Alice in Chains – The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:22 minutes | 1,39 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Capitol Records

“The big task for Alice in Chains on their 2009 comeback Black Gives Way to Blue was to prove they could carry on battered and bruised, missing Layne Staley but still in touch with their core. They had to demonstrate the band had a reason to exist, and Black Gives Way to Blue achieved this goal, paving the way for another record just like it. Enter The Devil Put the Dinosaurs Here, a record that is pretty close to identical to Black Gives Way to Blue in its sound, attack, and feel. Where it differs is in the latter, as the overall album feels lighter and, at times, the individual songs do, too. “Scalpel” flirts with the acoustic bones of Jar of Flies and also has perhaps the richest melody here, working as a song, not a grind. That said, there is an appeal to that monochromatic churn, the kind AIC created on Dirt and haven’t let go of since. The lightness comes not from the songs – the tempos still drag their feet, the guitars mine a minor key, the harmonies are in fifths so they sound like power chords – but rather from the precision of the band’s attack and, especially, the production. This has a digital sheen that was missing even from Black Gives Way to Blue, and it gives the album an expansive feel, so the patented churn doesn’t seem quite so claustrophobic as before. Then again, perhaps that expansiveness is just a sign of age: Alice in Chains are now firmly entrenched in their middle age and settling into what they do best: retaining their signature without pandering and, tellingly, without succumbing to the darkness that otherwise defines them.”

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Alice In Chains – Facelift (30th Anniversary – 2020 Remastered) (1990/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 54:08 minutes | 1,20 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Alice In Chains debut studio album, Facelift, a newly remastered audio will be released on November 13, 2020. Not only did the album introduce the world to Layne Staley, Jerry Cantrell, Sean Kinney, and Mike Starr, it was also a pivotal album in the era of grunge music. Facelift has sold over 2 million copies in the US alone and includes the hits “Man in the Box,” “Bleed the Freak,” “We Die Young,” and “Sea of Sorrow.”

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