Late 2009 through 2010 also saw the majority of Saint Vitus’ back catalog come back into print. SST Records reissued vinyl versions of all the group’s records except for the first album, which was reissued on CD. The label also released Hallow’s Victim and The Walking Dead on CD, having…
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Last Days Here is a documentary film featuring the daily drug-addled struggles of Bobby Liebling, the lead singer, songwriter, and co-founder of Pentagram. The documentary features interviews with prior members of the band as well as Liebling’s parents and friends; the roles of his friend Sean “Pellet” Pelletier and his…
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In 2009, the band announced the title of their debut studio album, The Devil You Know
But the band did not show further signs of progress until October 2008, when they announced that they had begun recording with producer Nick Raskulinecz in the studio.
In October 2008, Alice in Chains began recording its fourth studio album at the Foo Fighters ‘ Studio 606 in Los Angeles with producer Nick Raskulinecz .
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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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.
In a September 2008 interview with Rock N Roll Experience, guitarist Rick Wartell mentioned that Trouble had written “eight or nine songs” for their next album, and would begin recording it after touring. When asked which direction is the new music going in, Wartell replied, “I know people have said…
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In September 2008, it was announced that Alice in Chains would headline Australia’s Soundwave Festival in 2009, alongside Nine Inch Nails and Lamb of God .
The only surviving member of the original lineup of Necromandus is Frank Hall: Dennis McCarten died of a kidney illness in December 2004 at the age of 54, and Barry Dunnery (the elder brother of Francis Dunnery ) died of cancer on 29 May 2008 at the age of 56.…
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