Alice in Chains - Black Gives Way to Blue

1. All Secrets Known
2. Check My Brain
3. Last of My Kind
4. Your Decision
5. Looking in View
6. When the Sun Rose Again
7. Acid Bubble
8. Lesson Learned
9. Take Her Out
10. Private Hell
11. Black Gives Way to Blue
Seven years after singer Layne Staley became a drug casualty, Alice in Chains have reunited for a molten, groove-metal session that’s almost as dirty as — well, 1992’s Dirt. While sharing the vocal duties with newcomer William DuVall, guitarist Jerry Cantrell dishes out his patented swirling riz s and roaring chords on swaggering confessions like “Check My Brain.” But the tone of Black Gives Way to Blue is mostly hopeful; on the opening “All Secrets Known,” the band declares that it’s “a new beginning... time to start living.” Back in the day, it nestled its thunder against acoustic cuts, and on “Your Decision” and “When the Sun Rose Again,” the unplugged Alice is as stirring as ever. The title track, featuring piano from Elton John, brings closure in a bittersweet way, proclaiming, “I’ll remember you.” Download Alice in Chains - Black Gives Way to Blue