Alice in Chains is a famous rock band, which was formed in 1987 in Seattle, Washington. It was founded by Jerry Cantrell and Layne Staley. The band is closely associated with grunge music. Alice in Chains incorporates acoustic and heavy metal in their music.
In the early 1990s, Alice in Chains rose to international fame as a part of the grunge movement alongside with Seattle based rock bands such as Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, and Nirvana. In the same year the band became one of the world’s most famous musical acts, selling 17 million copies of there album.
Alice in Chains has two number ones in Billboard’s Top 200 albums (Alice in Chains and Jar of Flies). The group also got seven Grammy Award nominations in a span of one year.
Disbanding was not planned, but the band suffered from heavy drug abuse, which culminated in Layne Staley’s death. In 2005, the band reunited with a lead vocal named William Duvall and they released a new single “Black Gives Way to Blue”.