by Metal Insider | May 5, 2016 | New Music, News
It has been just over 14 years since former Alice in Chains frontman Layne Staley sadly passed away from a drug overdose. Fortunately, Alternative Nation picked up on a not-so-subtle tweet directed from a Seattle-area audio engineer Jesse Holt to Staley’s former Mad...
by Bram Teitelman | Dec 16, 2014 | Events, News
In 1995, a grunge supergroup of sorts, Mad Season, released their only album, Above. Formed by Alice in Chains vocalist Layne Staley, Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready and Screaming Trees drummer Barrett Martin, the band also featured bassist John Baker Saunders from...
by Metal Insider | Jul 16, 2013 | News Ticker
Walking Papers, a band consisting of Screaming Trees/Mad Season drummer Barrett Martin, Duff McKagan of Guns N’ Roses/Velvet Revolver and Jeff Angell and Benjamin Anderson of Seattle’s The Missionary Position, will release a self-titled album August 6 on...
by Zach Shaw | Mar 4, 2013 | Super MegaGroups
In April, an expanded reissue of the 1995 album Above by Mad Season (which featured members of Alice In Chains, Pearl Jam and Screaming Trees) will be released. But now it looks like previously unreleased demos might be rerecorded by a new group featuring guitarist...
by Metal Insider | Oct 22, 2012 | Top 5
Metal Insider’s Top 5 is a column where we count down the top five of…well basically anything. The idea behind Record Store Day is a great one – get music consumers into independent record stores to pick up rare and limited-edition music from some amazing artists. It...