Stars: Alice In Chains

Summary: Features all of the award-winning videos including 'We Die Young', 'Man In The Box', 'Sea Of Sorrow', 'Would?', 'Them Bones', 'Angry Chair', 'Rooster' and 'What The Hell Have I'. Also features behind the scenes home videos.

The only band to come out of Seattle's 1999 "grunge" explosion to be regularly featured on MTV's HEADBANGER'S BALL, Alice in Chains seamlessly mixed a dirty grunge sensibility with a heavy metal aesthetic. MUSIC BANK is a collection of the band's videos which spans around a decade and includes "Man in a Box," "Down in a Hole," the uncut version of "Rooster," "Grind," and a rare early version of "We Die Young," among others.

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That Alice In Chains were, in the early 1990s, routinely bracketed alongside Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Soundgarden as exemplars of grunge was always more to do with geography than reality. If Alice In Chains had not formed, like all the aforementioned, in Seattle, it is unlikely anyone would have drawn the comparisons. Where Nirvana and those who followed them approached metal through the filters of the British punk of The Clash and the traditional American songwriterly virtues of The Replacements, Alice In Chains were a heavy metal band, pure and simple.

Like most successful heavy metal bands, Alice In Chains attracted an unusually devoted fan-base, who will be well rewarded by this generous 94-minute compilation. Music Bank contains all Alice In Chains' videos, plus the kind of curios that suggest that someone, somewhere, has put some thought into this. The clips are broken up with grabs of on-the-road footage shot by the band themselves, and the programme begins with a local television documentary made about the band before they'd signed their record deal: the scenes shot in the kitchen of the house the band were sharing at this point are probably best avoided by the faint-hearted.

On the DVD: the DVD has two audio options: PCM stereo and surround sound. There are interactive menus with which to select individual clips, and a nicely designed but basically redundant video discography. --Andrew Mueller

Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Interactive Menu, Instant Chapter Access To Songs, Discography
Year:	1999
Release Date:	January 21, 2002
Runtime:	94 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	502089
Keywords:	Music, Alice, Bank, Rock, Pop, Videos, Chains, Performing, Arts, Popular
Genre:	Music/Performing Arts