The track "Iron Gland" features Tom Araya from Slayer on vocals. The songs on the album focused on depression, pain, anger, anti-social behavior, relationships, drug addiction (primarily heroin), war, death, and other emotionally charged topics.
The music video for "Would?" was nominated for an MTV Video Music Award for Best Video from a Film, as the song was featured on the soundtrack to Cameron Crowe's 1992 film Singles. Dirt was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance. The album spawned five singles: " Would?", " Them Bones", " Angry Chair", " Rooster", and " Down in a Hole", all with accompanying music videos.
It was also the band's last album recorded with all four original members, as bassist Mike Starr was fired in January 1993 during the tour to support the album. It has since been certified four-times platinum by the RIAA and gone on to sell five million copies worldwide, making Dirt the band's highest selling album to date. 6 on the Billboard 200 chart, the album was also well received by music critics. The album holds out little hope for its protagonists (aside from the much-needed survival story of "Rooster," a tribute to Cantrell's Vietnam-vet father), but in the end, it's redeemed by the honesty of its self-revelation and the sharp focus of its music.Dirt is the second studio album by the American rock band Alice in Chains, released on September 29, 1992, through Columbia Records. Even given its subject matter, Dirt is monstrously bleak, closely resembling the cracked, haunted landscape of its cover art. Sometimes he's just numb and apathetic, totally desensitized to the outside world sometimes his self-justifications betray a shockingly casual amorality his moments of self-recognition are permeated by despair and suicidal self-loathing. Staley's stark confessional lyrics are similarly effective, and consistently miserable. Cantrell's technically limited but inventive guitar work is by turns explosive, textured, and queasily disorienting, keeping the listener off balance with atonal riffs and off-kilter time signatures. Not every song on Dirt is explicitly about heroin, but Jerry Cantrell's solo-written contributions (nearly half the album) effectively maintain the thematic coherence - nearly every song is imbued with the morbidity, self-disgust, and/or resignation of a self-aware yet powerless addict. It's a primal, sickening howl from the depths of Layne Staley's heroin addiction, and one of the most harrowing concept albums ever recorded. Album Descriptionĭirt is Alice in Chains' major artistic statement and the closest they ever came to recording a flat-out masterpiece. See More Your browser does not support the audio element. The album holds out little hope for its protagonists (aside from the much-needed survival story of "Rooster," a tribute to Cantrell's Vietnam-vet father), but in the end, it's redeemed by the honesty of its self-revelation and the sharp focus of its music. Buy the album Starting at 14,89€ĭirt is Alice in Chains' major artistic statement and the closest they ever came to recording a flat-out masterpiece.
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