{"id":9694,"date":"2013-05-08T00:45:17","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T07:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=9694"},"modified":"2013-05-08T00:48:47","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T07:48:47","slug":"alice-in-chains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2013\/05\/alice-in-chains\/","title":{"rendered":"ALICE IN CHAINS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><b><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9695\" alt=\"ALICE-IN-CHAINS-M-Review-No25\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/ALICE-IN-CHAINS-M-Review-No25.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/ALICE-IN-CHAINS-M-Review-No25.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/ALICE-IN-CHAINS-M-Review-No25-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>A<\/b><b>LICE IN CHAINS<\/b><\/h1>\n<p><b><i>The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>[emi]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHollow,\u201d the opening track on AIC\u2019s fifth album, is a fitting title for a band that conveys emptiness like no other. Though half the original lineup has succumbed to a shared demon\u2014substance abuse\u2014the enduring Seattle grunge group retains its distinctive sound. It\u2019s almost as if late frontman Layne Staley has returned for the infectiously kinetic \u201cStone\u201d and the title track\u2019s foreboding harmony. While Alice goes unplugged in spots, guitarist Jerry Cantrell and company clearly haven\u2019t mellowed with age. <i>Dinosaurs<\/i> comes loaded with dive-bombing guitar solos, demonic vocal climaxes and tempos that change at the crunch of a bar chord. \u201cPhantom Limb\u201d brings an almost Slayer-like heaviness, while \u201cLab Monkey\u201d features some of the most distorted and guttural basslines perceivable to human ears. Lyrically, the album indulges those grunge leitmotifs of pain, entrapment and resignation. What makes it so enjoyable? After a quarter-century, AIC is entering a new prime. \u2013Ray Cavanaugh<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALICE IN CHAINS The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here [emi] \u201cHollow,\u201d the opening track on AIC\u2019s fifth album, is a fitting title for a band that conveys emptiness like no other. Though half the original lineup has succumbed to a shared demon\u2014substance abuse\u2014the enduring Seattle grunge group retains its distinctive sound. It\u2019s almost as if late [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,4161,6457,6427,6456],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9694"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9694"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9697,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9694\/revisions\/9697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}