Alice in Chains have at last announced the details of their long-awaited, highly anticipated new album. Rainier Fog will be released August 24 via BMG. You can check out its second single, "So Far...
Alice in Chains have at last announced the details of their long-awaited, highly anticipated new album. Rainier Fog will be released August 24 via BMG. You can check out its second single, "So Far Under," below.
"So Far Under" follows the album's first single, the well-received "The One You Know," which was released last month.
“It’s about feeling completely up against it—outnumbered, surrounded, facing seemingly unbeatable odds and being really pissed off about it," William DuVall—Alice in Chains' lead vocalist and guitarist—said of "So Far Under" in a press release. "It was inspired by personal circumstances, as well as events in the wider world. But it’s not as resigned to defeat as it may seem. The lyric is a cold, hard assessment of a difficult situation but the music has a message all its own. There’s still room to flip the script."
"Every aspect of writing and recording this song will always be remembered with a lot of joy—from recording the basic tracks and the guitar solo at Studio X in Seattle to doing further overdubs at Nick Raskulinecz’s studio in rural Tennessee," Duvall continued. "Everyone in the band and our studio team really stepped up and knocked it out of the park on this one. We’re extremely proud of this song and the entire album.”
Rainier Fog was produced by Nick Raskulinecz—who also produced the band's last two efforts, 2013’s The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here and 2009’s Black Gives Way To Blue. It was mainly recorded at Studio X, the same facility where they tracked 1995’s Alice In Chains.
“It’s a record we haven’t done yet, I can tell you that,” Jerry Cantrell told Guitar World about Rainier Fog in an interview