What is Alice in Chains?
{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2021}} {{Infobox musical artist | Name = Alice in Chains | image = Alice in Chains Live Leeds 2018.jpg | caption = Alice in Chains in 2018. From left to right: Mike Inez, [[William DuVall]], [[Sean Kinney]] and [[Jerry Cantrell]]. | Landscape = yes | Background = group_or_band | Birth_name = | Alias = Alice N' Chains, or AIC | Origin = [[Seattle, Washington]]<br />[[United States]] | Instrument = | Genre = [[Heavy metal music|Heavy metal]],<ref>{{Citation | last =Sharpe-Young | first =Garry | title =Hard Rock: Alice in Chains | date =April 23, 2007 | url =http://www.rockdetector.com/artist/united+states/washington/seattle/alice+in+chains | access-date =July 18, 2007 }}</ref> [[hard rock]], [[alternative metal]], [[grunge music|grunge]], [[alternative rock]], [[sludge metal]], [[doom metal]], [[hard rock]], [[blues rock]], [[folk rock]], [[funk metal]], [[jangle pop]] | Occupation = | Years_active = 1987-2002, 2005-present | Label = [[Columbia Records|Columbia]], [[Virgin Records]]/[[EMI Records|EMI]], [[Capitol Records]], [[BMG Rights Management]] | Associated_acts = Mad Season<br>[[Jerry Cantrell]]<br>Class of '99<br>Slash's Snakepit | URL = [http://www.aliceinchains.com/ www.aliceinchains.com] | Current_members = [[Jerry Cantrell]]<br />[[Sean Kinney]]<br />Mike Inez<br />[[William DuVall]] | Past_members = [[Layne Staley]]<br />[[Mike Starr (musician)|Mike Starr]] | Notable_instruments = }} '''Alice in Chains''' is an American [[Grunge music|grunge]] band that formed in [[Seattle, Washington]] in 1987.<ref>[http://users.stargate.net/~holliday/AICHIS.HTM. Alice in Chains info page]{{Dead link|date=January 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> They have sold an estimated 15 million albums in the US alone. Alice in Chains is sometimes thought of as a [[Heavy metal music|heavy metal]] ban