Alice In Chains

I haven't written for the sake of writing in a very long time.

There isn't much to write about besides my sleepless nights, my dream-addled days and smoke infused clothing. Except perhaps for Alice In Chains.

(Note: I've gone off Jared Leto after hearing rumours about him being a rapist. I know you'd probably say something like "but they're just rumours" but seriously, some girls potentially being raped and abused by him is more important to me than his cishet white boy innocence)

I know I've said this repeatedly but I love Alice In Chains so much I actually bought their Essential album. I'm a bleeding cheapskate over most things so this does actually count for a lot (in my book, at least!).

Sern and I made a trip out of it to Singapore earlier this month and we caught Black Veil Brides, Five Finger Death Punch, Rob Zombie and Slipknot on the first day of Rock Fest and Alter Bridge and Alice In Chains on day two.

William DuVall was much better than I'd originally expected live though I'd heard that loads of people are generally pretty happy with his voice. In my opinion, DuVall is the closest you can get to Layne Staley without actually being Layne Staley. I still have conflicted feelings about Cantrell being so prominent vocally on The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here (incidentally, Amazon stores this album under pop HAHAHA) because yeah, you could say that his voice is the kind of sexy snarl so suited to sludge metal but I think it gets a bit nasal after a few listenings.

Anyway, I'm really just happy they came rocking out to Them Bones, which is genuinely my all time favourite song by them. They even played Your Decision, my next favourite, as well as Dam That River and they ended the entire set with Rooster. I cried a little bit on the inside to Nutshell too. Wes and Sern are probably still upset that they didn't perform Man In The Box. Nowadays, when I need to rile Sern up I just have to start going "FE-E-E-E-ED MY EEEEEYES"and he starts yelling at me. Heh.

Incidentally, an interesting point: William DuVall looks remarkably young for someone approaching his fifties. And he's totes adorbs.

And another thing: Layne Staley is dead. There's really no point comparing Alice In Chains now and Alice In Chains then because the band has moved on regardless of whether the fans have accepted it or not. Cantrell's the real soul of the band and that's what matters. DuVall is a brilliantly talented singer as well. Wes, after hearing Stone, stated that he actually likes their new stuff better. So be it.

The only thing I'd judge you on is if you prefer Man In The Box to Rooster.

Okay, inside joke.