Alice In Chains singer/guitarist William DuVall discussed the importance of new material and moving forward when the band returned in 2006 without their late singer Layne Staley.
DuVall told NME, “That’s the reason why this band survived,” says William. “We could have easily messed this up in 2006 when we came back if it hadn’t had been primarily about the desire to make music together. Because when you’re onstage in front of 30,000 people in Portugal, you don’t have time to think about anything other than, ‘How are we going to pull this off?’
It made us so close, because we were all each other had. There was this external conversation about whether we had the right to continue, but we just wanted and needed to get together to make music. And we enjoyed doing that and we enjoyed the ideas that came out of playing together. The art dictated our future, which I think is how it should be. That’s what led to the point we’re at now, which is twelve-years later.”
Alice In Chains will release their new album Rainier Fog on August 24th.
