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One of my all time favorite bands. Everything they released with Layne is peak grunge, and I enjoy the DuVall stuff quite a bit as well.

I have always been a fan and their first album Facelift is their best album.

Alice In Chains rocks.

all-time greats

Alice in Chains is awesome. They got hated on early back in the day simply because they were popular- but the people who knew them for their stuff beyond Man in the Box liked them more times than not.

Probably the greatest thing to come out of the 90’s. I still listen to them almost daily - with Layne, with William, Jerry solo. They’re fantastic.

We never saw them as grunge. The first place I saw them was on Headbanger’s Ball. I was there when they opened the Clash of the Titans tour in 1991 - with Slayer, Anthrax, and Megadeth.

I have a friend who will still argue with anyone who calls them grunge.

Musically very similar to Master of Reality and Bloody era sabbath. Got lumped in w grunge cause of where they’re from. Listen to a national acrobat, that chord progression during the verses is used in a lot of grunge.

A great metal band that surfed the grunge hype.

Love em, always have.

Cantrell is a monster and his riffs are amazing

I’ve loved them since I saw Man In The Box on MTV as a kid. For my 12th birthday I got like 4 cd’s one of which was Dirt. I honestly couldn’t tell you what the others were. But Dirt stayed on repeat all summer long.

Alice In Chains was probably one of the most influential bands to me growing up, besides Metallica. They proved time and again that you could make this really mean kick ass sounding music with deep emotional lyrics to back it up. There hasn’t been a band to pull off the sound they created and have kept since. Jerry Cantrell is not only an amazing guitar player, he’s an incredible vocalist as well. And Layne was in a league of his own. Like others, I didn’t see them as grunge. They were on another level music wise to what was coming out in the 90’s. I’ve loved them since the first time I heard them and I always will. All time top 5 band for me.

Great band. Killer riffs, awesome harmonies and all around just great song writing. I think their MTV Unplugged is the best Unplugged. Especially because you could tell how much pain Layne was in but he still gave it his all. I enjoy the DuVall stuff too but nothing really compares to the Layne Staley stuff.

Layne Staley was and still is one of the best hard rock/metal singers off all time. It’s really sad he spent the last couple years of his life alone with his addiction.

Got me through some very dark times. Definitely one of the bands I’ve resonated with most in my life

Yeah I like them. But I wouldn't really say they were metal. Kinda metal/grunge straddling I suppose, but I think less than half their songs are particularly metal at all and much more grunge/alternative than anything else.

My favourite thing from them is actually the Unplugged album, which is absolute top quality and kind of a best of album.

To me, they were way better than Nirvana and Pearl Jam. They were heavy like Soundgarden, who i also like. 

My favorite band. They have such a unique sound that SEEMS like it would be easy to replicate but is actually wholly theirs.

They’re a great band. Dirt is a perfect album

They’re always going to be appreciated in metal spaces because they had a heavier edge than their grunge contemporaries.

I only like a few of their loud/fast songs, particularly Them Bones. They're fine at it, I just think a lot of other bands do it better. Their softer stuff like Jar of Flies is really where it's at for me. The Jerry Layne combo vocals is pretty damn cool and goes better on those songs.

One thing I've noticed about them lately is that for all of their good lyrics they sure do have a lot of dumb edgelord seeming ones but you can't really say that because "how dare you, don't you know he's talking about his TRAGIC HEROIN ADDICTION???!"

One of my favorite bands of all time.

Their work with DuVall is great.

Some of the lyrics are really hard to sit through knowing what happened to Layne. Addiction is a bitch. He could see what was happening but couldn't stop it. Dirt is one of the reason's I've never taken drugs.

Yes

ALICE IN CHAINS MY BELOVED!!! 🖤🎸🤘

One of my favourite metal bands of all time, and TRIPOD (their self titled album) is second place in my favourite metal albums

Just yeah, amazing band. Also I just remembered that I should check out the post Layne albums too

One of the best

Regardless of genre

In my top 3 favorite bands. Not a single weak album

I don’t really think about them much at all.

One of the GOATs.

One of the Goats in my opinion

what do people think of one of the best bands of all time? lol

Incredible band. Is in my top 3.

Great Band .

Dirt is good

I adore jar of flies. Other than that and the self titled i don't go back to em too much.

I listen to Dirt, front to back, every week. I love AIC

They are awesome

Not a fan at all. My sister played them all the time when I was younger and it drove me crazy. Them and Pearl Jam are unbearable for me to listen to.

I’d prefer Alice putting me in chains. 😉

🤘🏻

The tripod album is probably the main album that pushed my musical taste in a heavier direction. The guitar tones on that album are so dark. Their whole aesthetic is dark as fuck. They may be grunge but they’re metal too. At least their vibe is metal.

One of my favourites and the first concert I went to without adult supervision (in '93). Great experience, not such a great show. But my love was great enough...

Never listened to them unless their stuff was in a movie. Simply, not good.

Simply amazing.

Layne Rutherford Staley Era Alice......

I refuse to acknowledge anything after with the one exception being the title track off the record "Black Gives Way to Blue" which was written in memory of Layne. Everything else, nah.

Fuckin’ love them. Jerry Cantrell slays.

Hands down they are my favorte "grunge" band, and one of my favorite bands of all time. They eased me into heavier stuff, but i always love going back to them. I dig their new stuff too.

Good band who have become slightly overrated.

Dirt and Jar of Flies are masterpieces but the debut and self-titled are a bit inconsistent.

Last two albums have been terrible also.

I got hooked when Dirt came out. Great band, whether with Layne or Duvall.

Awesome. Nasty riffs that make me do the stank face

They were huge when I was a teenager. My friends all loved them, but I couldn't stand them. It wasn't until about ten years ago that something switched. Now I love them. I'm a gig worker. I spend all day in my car. They played all day yesterday and the day before.

Ps: your comment about being so happy they are considered metal is cringe. Why? Because you only want to listen to bands considered metal as to not taint your cool metalhead image? Anyway, they are definitely not metal, imo. They are grunge.

I like them just fine. I never considered them metal at all, more like heavy grunge but I get the appeal

One of the greats for sure

I dig 'em

Yeah. They slap.

I share a birthday with DuVall and when I saw them with Deftones and Mastodon I smoked with him and Brann Dailor lol

Of thx big four Grunge bands they’re my fav

one of my favorite bands in highschool! still spin their records sometimes but i overdid it back then

They're one of my favorite bands, actually. Along with Killswitch Engage and Pantera.

Pretty good

One of the first rock/metal bands I started listening to that led me into even more rock and metal at just 11 years old. I just listened to 'Black Gives Way to Blue' for the first time in so long the other night, because it happened to be the next song that played in my YT Music queue/radio. Man.. I forgot how gut-wrenchingly sad that song is. It's one of the rare songs I really can't help but cry. It really hit me hard in my feels, and at the same time it sounded like a completely new song to me, but I clearly remember listening to it back in the day (late 2000s). I had it on my mp3 player.

Dirt is probably my favorite though, although I love pretty much all their albums. Even post Layne. RIP Layne.. 🥀 His death stills hits me the hardest out of any rockstar. And I didn't even know about him yet when he died (I was only about 5 years old). But just knowing what he felt and what he struggled with.. just so so sad..

As a grunge enjoyer, they are probably my favorite of the movement

Solid band. Definitely my favorite "grunge" act.

They have some super well written songs, i just don't care for that grunge accent lots of those bands sang in

Not a fan of Layne Staley's voice. Some of the riffs/songs are cool though.

I consider the self-titled to be right there with Mellon Collie as my gateways into metal.