![]() Jerry Cantrell captures a sound that is even below "the brown sound" creating a darker yet brighter sound all at once, as only Jerry can. and from the very first listen, I was floored. Seeing Alice in Chains play live, I closed my eyes and just listened.William emulates Layne so well, I could have been fooled - is he channeling him from the other side somehow?! I know this is the bands first recording since Layne died almost 15 years ago. ![]() I am always skeptical when bands try to replace their singers and move on, doing this has very rarely been a successful move in my opinion.but I gotta say, Layne lives on in William Duvall. Read full reviewīlack Gives Way to Blue/Layne Gives the Way to William Let the truth be told: Alice in Chains truly is rock band. Although often associated with the grunge scene, Alice In Chains hardly fits into this category if we take a look back in time and revisit the other bands that emerged from Seattle at that time and were also labeled that way. "Black Gives Way to Blue", as said, contains the same raw, straight-forward sound that capt ivated hundreds of thousands of fans almost 20 years ago, when "Facelift" was put in the market. ![]() Clearly, Jerry Cantrell and the guys did not forget who they are and what they used to do and delivered us with a piece of recording that provide us with a true journey back in time. I was amazed to realize that the band's sonority was kept quite the same as fans were used to listen back in the 90s. Not only the impressive vocal resemblance caught my attention. ![]() Actually, the similarity is a good thing in my opinion. Maybe someone will disagree, but I can't help but reminding of Layne when I hear the new vocalist William DuVall perform on this very welcomed return of Alice in Chains. Upon listening to this album, I thought Layne Staley was somehow brought back to life again. ![]()
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