Alice in Chains was nominated for a Best Hard Rock Performance Grammy Award in 1992 for “Man in the Box”.
Recording sessions for the album began in January 1992 at Enterprise Studios in Burbank, California .
The band performed the song at the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards where it was nominated for Best Video of the Year .
In 1992, Alice in Chains appeared in the Cameron Crowe film Singles , performing their song “It Ain’t Like That” while portraying an unnamed bar band.
A world tour in support of the album was launched in late 1992, with Pantera and White Zombie as supporting acts.
Ultimately, the band chose Vivian Campbell in 1992, formerly of Dio and Whitesnake .
In early 1992, shortly after reportedly signing a $10 million record deal with Elektra Records and following their appearance in Married… with Children , Belladonna was fired from Anthrax over creative and stylistic differences. After firing Belladonna, the remaining members of Anthrax auditioned several vocalists including Mark Osegueda of Death…
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After many auditions, the young Akio Shimizu joined the band to replace Nakama. In 1992, the band released Domestic Booty . However, classic-style heavy metal was out of fashion in the early 90s, and with the explosion of grunge in the U.S. and the visual kei movement in Japanese music,…
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Cooper made a cameo appearance in the 1992 comedy film Wayne’s World . Cooper and his band first appear on stage performing “Feed My Frankenstein” from their studio album Hey Stoopid . Afterward at a backstage party, the movie’s main characters Wayne Cambell and Garth Algar discover that when offstage,…
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Later in 1992, they followed up by releasing Kyōfu no Restaurant