Alice in Chains is a popular and influential rock band that formed in Seattle, Washington in 1987. They were one of the most commercially successful bands from the Seattle grunge music scene, selling an estimated 15 million albums worldwide. Unlike many of their peers, Alice in Chains owed more to heavy metal than to punk rock or classic rock, but the group became closely associated with grunge due to their Seattle roots, their image, and their introspective and sometimes morbid lyrics. In 1987, Layne Staley met guitarist and song-writer Jerry Cantrell at a party and allowed him to stay at the Music Bank Hotel with him. Eventually, Cantrell invited Staley to join his band, Diamond Lie, which soon added Cantrell's friend, bassist Mike Starr. They recruited drummer Sean Kinney, who was dating Starr's sister, to complete the lineup. The new group began writing original material and playing clubs in Seattle, eventually taking the name "Alice in Chains." (The name derived from one of ...This information was automatically generated from Freebase article Alice In Chains. You should replace/update it...