In April 2011, the band played ” Monster You Made ” live acoustically on the Bubba the Love Sponge Show and stated it was a song the band hoped might be an album single.
On March 21, 2011, Alice in Chains announced that they were working on a fifth studio album, and both Cantrell and Inez later made statements that they had begun the recording process.
A public memorial was held for Starr at the Seattle Center’s International Fountain on March 20, 2011.
On 14 March 2011, the band’s 40th anniversary, Queen’s first five albums were re-released in the UK and some other territories as remastered deluxe editions; the US versions were released on 17 May. The second five albums of Queen’s back catalogue were released worldwide on 27 June, and on 27…
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A box set entitled Twenity Box was later released on March 9 and contains all three of the albums. It also came with a special digest DVD that covered the 20-year history of the band, a deluxe booklet, and a special music box that contained either ” Flower “, “Anata”,…
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On March 8, 2011, former Alice in Chains bassist Mike Starr was found dead at his home in Salt Lake City.
The next day, Cornell reported that the new album would not be released until the spring of 2012.
Four days later, the band stated it would consist of material that was “90 percent new” with the rest consisting of updated versions of older ideas. They also noted that they had 12 to 14 songs that were “kind of ready to go”.
On March 2, 2011, another “big four” concert, which took place in Gothenburg on July 3, 2011, was announced.
On March 1, 2011, Chris Cornell confirmed that Adam Kasper would produce it.