On Sunshine, a song written about Jerry Cantrell’s mother, you almost expect a coked-up, adrenaline-fueled Bob Seger to start performing before Layne Staley brilliantly takes command. So Guns N’ Roses and Black Sabbath are two undeniable influences on Facelift, but there’s some surprising classic rock innuendo thrown in there too. It’s perhaps not as fast and flurry as, let’s say Mötley Crüe, but it would be easy to imagine someone like Axl Rose sing the chorus: I live tomorrow/ You’ll not follow/ As you wallow/ In a sea of sorrow, over Jerry Cantrell’s heavy, guttural guitar riffs. Sea of Sorrow is another song with undeniable eighties metal influence. The topic is gloomy (kids dealing drugs), but the song itself is groovy and in-your-face. For example, the opener We Die Young flaunts catchy, anachronistic riffs that could’ve come from any Californian metal of the eighties and bare, stripped down lyrics that recall early 1950s rock n’ roll in their structure. Because they weren’t their super heavy, brooding selves yet and really put their influences and inspirations on display. Let’s start today with their iconic debut Facelift.Īlice in Chains is primarily labeled as a grunge band, but they couldn’t be anymore different from movement flag-bearers Nirvana and there’s perhaps no better album than Facelift to understand how different exactly they were. This year, I will go over their discography and try to answer the following questions: were they ever a grunge band and if they aren’t, what are they exactly? I’m not sure Alice in Chains’ legacy is appreciated for what it is. That’s when I was introduced to Alice in Chains, a band that was musically heavier and overall more challenging that their contemporaries. A couple months after I discovered rock music, it had taken a dark, confronting turn my child self was emotionally unprepared for. I was nine years old when grunge became a thing in Canada.
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