ALICE IN CHAINS was pressured to cancel its live performance tonight (Thursday, Might 8) on the Mohegan Solar Area in Uncasville, Connecticut after drummer Sean Kinney suffered “a non-life-threatening medical emergency”.
Earlier tonight, the band launched the next assertion by way of social media: “After our soundcheck this night on the Mohegan Solar Area, Sean skilled a non-life-threatening medical emergency. We sadly should cancel tonight’s present. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience. Refunds can be found on the level of buy.”
ALICE IN CHAINS is scheduled to look at a number of festivals this month, together with the MMRBQ in Camden, New Jersey (Might 10),Sonic Temple in Columbus, Ohio (Might 11) and Welcome To Rockville in Daytona Seashore, Florida (Might 16). They’ve additionally lined up a number of different headlining reveals, in Nashville, Tennessee (Might 13) and Dothan, Alabama (Might 15). ALICE IN CHAINS can be on the invoice for the ultimate BLACK SABBATH/Ozzy Osbourne present on July 5 in Birmingham, United Kingdom.
In a current interview with “Whiplash”, the KLOS radio present hosted by Full Steel Jackie, ALICE IN CHAINS singer William DuVall was requested the place issues stand with him and his bandmates in the mean time. He responded: “Effectively, we’re excited for these dates we now have arising in Might. We’re excited to get on the market and see everybody. We’re in common contact and communication, and so we’ll simply should see what comes after Might. I actually would not wanna say something greater than that. However we’re enthusiastic about these reveals in Might. We’re actually trying ahead to it.”
ALICE IN CHAINS had solely performed one live performance since 2023 — an look eventually 12 months’s Sick New World pageant in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Within the final 4 years, ALICE IN CHAINS guitarist/vocalist Jerry Cantrell has launched two solo albums, 2021’s “Brighten” and 2024’s “I Need Blood”, and has toured extensively in assist of each efforts, performing materials spanning his solo profession and ALICE IN CHAINS.
ALICE IN CHAINS regrouped in 2006 with DuVall becoming a member of the band, and launched its third LP with DuVall within the lineup, “Rainier Fog”, in August 2018.
Previous to becoming a member of ALICE IN CHAINS, DuVall was a member of punk rock bands AWARENESS VOID OF CHAOS, NEON CHRIST, BL’AST! and FINAL OFFERING. DuVall‘s lengthy musical historical past additionally consists of COMES WITH THE FALL and Cantrell‘s solo work.
Cantrell befriended the members of COMES WITH THE FALL within the early 2000s, enjoying reveals with the band on the West Coast, then enlisting the musicians to tour with him as each opening act and backing group in assist of his album “Degradation Journey”.
DuVall seems on the final three ALICE IN CHAINS albums: 2009’s “Black Provides Approach To Blue”, 2013’s “The Satan Put Dinosaurs Right here” and the aforementioned “Rainier Fog”.
