Layne Staley

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Alice In Chains posing for a photograph in 1990

The story of the landmark Alice In Chains album that paved the way for Nirvana’s Nevermind

By Stephen Hill published

A year before Nirvana broke out with Nevermind, Alice In Chains Seattle’s grunge scene on the map

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Alice Chains pose in front of their tour bus, 2009

How Alice In Chains came back from the brink

By Alexander Milas published

After the death of Layne Staley, it took Alice In Chains seven years to return with a new frontman and album. This is their story

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The greatest metal records that never were

By Alex Chillingworth, Adam Brennan, Stephen Hill, Dom Lawson, Dannii Leivers last updated

Unfinished or abandoned, these are the records from some of metals' biggest names that remain lost in time

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Watch an unrecognisable Layne Staley fronting hair metal-era Alice In Chains in 1986

By James Leonard published

Archive footage shows 18-year-old Layne Staley singing with Alice N’ Chains – minus Jerry Cantrell, but with a hell of a lot of hairspray

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Jerry Cantrell recalls Alice In Chains goodbye to Layne Staley

By Bruce Henne published

Exclusive: Alice In Chains guitarist Jerry Canrell details story behind 2009 track Black Gives Way To Blue

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Alice in Chains (Layne Staley) perform at the Paradiso in Amsterdam, Netherlands on 12th February 1993

Better to burn out than fade away: remembering Layne Staley

By Charles R. Cross published

Even though he died at 34, Layne Staley still left an enduring musical legacy

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