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• Dirt, released in 1992, is Alice in Chains second full-length and one of the defining albums of the grunge/alternative-metal era. Built around themes of pain, addiction, mortality, and inner turmoil, the album combines dense guitars, heavy rhythms, and haunting vocal harmonies. Layne Staleys voice alternates between wounded confession and fierce outcry, while Jerry Cantrells riffs shift between sludge, dissonance, and melody. The tone is relentless, often bleak, but also intimatesmall moments of softness puncture the darkness. Within their catalog, Dirt represents Alice in Chains at their most raw and uncompromising. It solidified their legacy as a band willing to confront destructive impulses face-on, and helped define what a dark major-label rock record could be. Decades later, it remains