Alice In Chains have been confirmed as one of the supports on July 11 when Metallica bring their Escape From The Studio ’06 tour to the RDS.
Currently rehearsing for a VH1 Decades Rock Live! special, the line-up features original Chain gangers Jerry Cantrell, Mike Inez and Sean Kinney plus Comes With The Fall singer William DuVall who replaces the deceased Layne Staley.
“We’re making it up as we go along,” Cantrell explains. "It's what we always did in the past. We're writing the book as we live it. We feel confident that we will have a good time and that it's something that will live up to the same level.
"It's an exploratory thing, and we're just having fun with it. We'd like to go out and play for the people that supported us and love the music as much as we have all these years. We want to celebrate what we did and the memory of our friend."
Alice In Chains aren’t the only amps on ‘11’ merchants making a comeback, with San Franciscan power metallers Armored Saint slotting in a June 29 gig at the Spring & Airbrake, Belfast.