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On being chosen to sing for ALICE IN CHAINS:

"It's a great honor and it's a great responsibility. But at the same time, it's a band, and in that respect I'm going to give my all no matter what I'm doing or what band I'm in.

"This is obviously a really great thing but it's more about moving ahead than looking back. This is not about nostalgia; it's about building a new template for how to be ALICE IN CHAINS. It's a completely different band now to what it was."

On the differences between old and new:

"There's a lot of elements that make it different and despite what people say, I don't think I sound like Layne Staley. I don't think I could sound like Layne Staley if I tried. I'm not trying to imitate anybody to begin with, I'm just trying to go out there and do these songs my way. If there's a resemblance to what happened before that's purely because that's the song people have known for years."

"I'm not going to take all of these extreme liberties with the melody and get all 'American Idol' on it. I'm going to do it the way it should be done and I'm going to sing it from my own experience.

"It's going to be coming from my own place of truth. If that resonates with the listener then maybe that's what makes them think, 'He sounds like Layne!' It's because they're getting the same feeling of truth that they got when he sang it. In reality I don't sound any more like Layne than I look like Layne."

"It's respect for Layne too. He was great because, in part, he was such an individual, and I'm an individual. I loved what he did so much that I'm going to put my own spin on it. That's the only respectful thing to do, for myself, for the fans, for Layne and for this band."

On ALICE IN CHAINS' new album, "Black Gives Way To Blue":

"The album is out because we thought it was worth putting out. We dig it. This was about proving something to ourselves first, and I think a by-product of that is that perhaps we might provide an example for possibilities for other people within their own lives.

"We all experience tragedy at some point and what do you do? Do you lay down and die or do you get up and go with your head up and find a new way to be bad ass?"

"Our story has a dimension to it that makes it quite different from any other. The list of bands that have had to bounce back and triumph over the adversity of losing a singer is pretty short."

On ALICE IN CHAINS' future:

"We're on a mission. We're proving something to ourselves and we're proving something to a lot of people."

Just a few months after topping Billboard's Rock Songs chart with lead single "Check My Brain", ALICE IN CHAINS is maintaining chart domination with "Your Decision", their second consecutive No. 1 single from new album "Black Gives Way To Blue". "Your Decision" is also the 12th top ten mainstream rock hit of ALICE IN CHAINS' illustrious career. The track's debauchery-filled video, inspired in part by the film "Eyes Wide Shut", is currently the Most Played Video on MTV2.

ALICE IN CHAINS has introduced an interactive music video experience for the band's song "Acid Bubble". Produced by Spy Films, director Nick Goso created an interactive space where users manipulate their perspective and experience 360-degree environments. Check it out now at this location. A non-interactive version of the clip can be viewed below.

heavylaw a écrit :Alice In Chains vient de mettre en ligne le clip de "Lesson Learned" issu de Black Gives Way To Blue. La vidéo a été réalisée par Paul Matthaeus notamment connu pour les génériques de Dexter, True Blood ou Six Feet Under.