In April 1995, Alice in Chains entered Bad Animals Studio in Seattle with producer Toby Wright , who had previously worked with Corrosion of Conformity and Slayer .
The band issued Plastic Green Head through the Music for Nations label in 1995, with the return of founding drummer Jeff Olson.
After touring in support of the album, the trio recorded an EP, For Funerals to Come… , which was released in early 1995. However, Le Huche left the band shortly after, and issues finding a replacement resulted in the band breaking up for a year, while Renkse and Nystrom worked…
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Following the touring cycle for Cross Purposes , bassist Geezer Butler quit the band for the second time. “I finally got totally disillusioned with the last Sabbath album, and I much preferred the stuff I was writing to the stuff Sabbath were doing”. Butler formed a solo project called GZR…
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While Alice in Chains was inactive during 1995, Staley joined the “grunge supergroup ” Mad Season , which also featured Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready , bassist John Baker Saunders from The Walkabouts , and Screaming Trees drummer Barrett Martin . Mad Season released one album, Above , for which…
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After the European tour with Cathedral and Godspeed in June 1994, drummer Bobby Rondinelli quit the band and was replaced by original Black Sabbath drummer Ward for five shows in South America.
The band filmed a live performance at the Hammersmith Apollo on 13 April 1994
Under pressure from their record label, the band released their seventeenth studio album, Cross Purposes , on 8 February 1994, under the Black Sabbath name.
Touring in support of Cross Purposes began in February with Morbid Angel and Motörhead in the US
Columbia Records released Alice in Chains’ second acoustic-based EP, Jar of Flies , on January 25, 1994. Written and recorded in one week, Jar of Flies debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, becoming the first EP—and first Alice in Chains release—to top the charts.