Alice In Chains announce new album ‘Rainier Fog’

ALICE IN CHAINS have announced a new album!

The upcoming album, titled Rainier Fog, is their first album in five years and is scheduled to be released in August this year. The upcoming album will be their first album for BMG and their first time recording in their hometown of Seattle in more than 20 years (worth noting that the album title is a tribute to Seattle). They recorded at Studio X, the same facility where they tracked 1995’s self-titled album.

Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have released a brand new music video for new single titled So Far Under. Speaking about the new track, vocalist/guitarist William DuVall says, “it’s about feeling completely up against it – outnumbered, surrounded, facing seemingly unbeatable odds and being really pissed off about it. It was inspired by personal circumstances, as well as events in the wider world. But it’s not as resigned to defeat as it may seem. The lyric is a cold, hard assessment of a difficult situation but the music has a message all its own. There’s still room to flip the script. Every aspect of writing and recording this song will always be remembered with a lot of joy – from recording the basic tracks and the guitar solo at Studio X in Seattle to doing further overdubs at Nick Raskulinecz’s studio in rural Tennessee. Everyone in the band and our studio team really stepped up and knocked it out of the park on this one. We’re extremely proud of this song and the entire album.”

Listen to So Far Under here:

Rainier Fog is set for release on August 24th via BMG.

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