ALICE IN CHAINS To Take A Break From Writing To Play KUPD's 'End Of Summer Scorcher'
July 30, 2008ALICE IN CHAINS is wrapping up the writing phase for its first all-new studio effort since 1995's self-titled third album. Before the band begins recording, the guys will head over to Peoria, Arizona to join their good friends DEFTONES at KUPD's End of Summer Scorcher on September 20.
The event will take place at the Peoria Sports Complex and tickets go on sale this Saturday, August 2 at all local Arizona Club Tattoo locations.
Tickets will be available online beginning Monday, August 4 via Tickets.com.
In a spring 2008 interview with The Pulse of Radio, ALICE IN CHAINS guitarist Jerry Cantrell confirmed that he, bassist Mike Inez, drummer Sean Kinney and new singer William DuVall have been writing songs for months, but explained that they're not rushing to start recording. "We've been working about the last four months, and there's a good bulk of music and a good body of work so far, and we're having fun, and you know, we're taking our time and trying to figure out where William fits in and where we need to step up, and I have all the confidence in the world in the guys," he said. "The most important thing to me is that we're all together and, you know, it's been a tough and painful experience at times, but it's been very rewarding at the same time."
ALICE IN CHAINS officially regrouped in early 2006 after a 10-year absence with DuVall stepping in for late frontman Layne Staley, who died in 2002.
The group did its own headlining tour in the summer and fall of 2006, followed by a 2007 co-headlining jaunt with VELVET REVOLVER.
Watch ALICE IN CHAINS performing "Man In the Box" live at Germany's Rock Am Ring 2006:
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