alice in pains

Alice in Chains have released a confronting early taste of their upcoming new album Black Gives Way to Blue with an epically explicit seven minute clip appearing on their website. The over 18s-only clip, which you are highly unlikely to see on Video Hits, takes the viewer through a torrid nightmare of flagellation, suicide and a dose of nudity which although it provides a bit of tit, is certainly not titillating.

In September the reformed Seattle band will release their first new studio album in fourteen years after spending six months recording with new vocalist William DuVall in Los Angeles. The band, who in their initial incarnation sold more than 17 million albums worldwide, reformed in 2005, three years after the death of former singer Layne Staley. Black Gives Way to Blue is released September 29th through Universal/EMI.