Artist News Releases

Alice In Chains announce new album, release new single

By Andy Malt | Published on Friday 29 June 2018

Alice In Chains have announced that they will release their first album for five years later this summer. Titled ‘Rainer Fog’, it will be released through BMG on 24 Aug. As well as announcing the new album, the band have also released new single ‘So Far Under’.

Of that song, the band’s William DuVall says: “It’s about feeling completely up against it – outnumbered, surrounded, facing seemingly unbeatable odds and being really pissed off about it. It was inspired by personal circumstances, as well as events in the wider world. But it’s not as resigned to defeat as it may seem. The lyric is a cold, hard assessment of a difficult situation, but the music has a message all its own. There’s still room to flip the script”.

He goes on: “Every aspect of writing and recording this song will always be remembered with a lot of joy – from recording the basic tracks and the guitar solo at Studio X in Seattle to doing further overdubs at Nick Raskulinecz’s studio in rural Tennessee. Everyone in the band and our studio team really stepped up and knocked it out of the park on this one. We’re extremely proud of this song and the entire album”.

I like the bit where it sounds like a warped tape. Despite that ‘cassette revival’ you keep talking about, kids in general today know nothing of warped tapes. This is almost certainly the root cause of everything that’s wrong with the world today.

Anyway, listen to ‘So Far Under’ here…