Alice In Chains Music Bank Album Cover

Another cool song from that demo for the crowe movie.

Alice in chains music bank album cover.

It is assumed by most alice in chains fans that the model used for the album cover was layne staley s girlfriend demri parrott. The song would remain unreleased until 1999 when it was released on the music bank box set and also issued as a promotional single. Columbia sony music distribution 1996. Layne brought in the name but jerry was the one that wrote and produced the music and gave alice in chains the style they are known for.

Grunge metal legends alice in chains early releases sounded tortured and depraved and it was photographer rocky schenck s dark imagery that drove the band s bleak messages home on the cover of facelift and the video for we die young among other collaborations. The alice in chains 4 disc box set music bank serves as both career retrospective and b side collection. If jerry died instead of layne that would have affected the band much more and you probably don t want that to happen either. Find alice in chains discography albums and singles on allmusic.

In many ways the very release of music bank and its single disc distillation nothing safe is a roundabout admission that aic is no. You get plenty of material from the regular aic albums but there is enough bonus material to make the set worthwhile to die hard fans. It was released on october 26 1999 on columbia records. Three studio albums two eps one live album and a few european b sides seemingly is a scant body of work to provide the basis for a box set but that proves not to be the case with music bank a three disc retrospective of alice in chains decade long career.

The majority of alice in chains studio material also appears here including the entire album dirt and all 4 tracks from sap. This is the band s first full length studio album to feature bassist mike inez. In the liner notes of 1999 s music bank box set collection guitarist jerry cantrell said of the song. The cover featured an eerie image of a girl half buried in the desert dirt by photographer rocky schneck.

Although she looks exactly like demri the actual model used for the album cover is model actress mariah o brien. Alice in chains was jerry s band. Origin and recording fear the voices is an outtake from the dirt album recorded in 1992. None were as eerie or poignant however as the cover of their second album 1992 s dirt.

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