Alice in Chains

The most intense and cathartic of the Seattle Sound. Staley was a superlative singer, moving in his delivery of lyrics that displayed a marked fragility, and Cantrell is a guitarist perfectly at ease in both the hardest moments and the most melodic ones. Dirt is a true descent into the abyss, and Jar of Flies is on par with it, even though it is wonderfully opposite in its musical approach. The self-titled album is a great epitaph before Staley’s tragic death.