and appeared on BBC2’s “Later Live” show hosted by Jools Holland on 23 September.
and was certified platinum on September 23, 2008
A week before the official release on September 22, 2008, the album was put up to stream on the band’s official MySpace page.
Suicide Season was released on 18 September 2008 in the United States on Epitaph and on 29 September in Europe through Visible Noise.
On September 14, 2008, Alice in Chains performed at halftime during the Seattle Seahawks vs San Francisco 49ers game at the Qwest Field (now named Lumen Field ) in Seattle. The 12-minute performance for a crowd of 67,000 people featured a cover of Led Zeppelin’s “Kashmir” accompanied by the Northwest…
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On 9 September 2008, they were awarded the Mercury Music Prize for The Seldom Seen Kid
On 9 September, they performed at the National Movie Awards broadcast on ITV
The album had been leaked onto various file-sharing sites earlier in the month on September 5, 2008.
Blabbermouth.net reported on September 5, 2008, that Alice in Chains would enter the studio that October to begin recording a new album for a summer 2009 release.
On 4 September 2008, it was announced via a MySpace blog post that Gareth Davies had left the band, to be replaced by Gavin Burrough ( Hondo Maclean , Ghostlines, The Future).