A great loss

This album is so dark that you can not even like to play it at a funeral. Songs that are full of longing for death just so hard varied riffs from the very talented guitarist Jerry Cantrell and rarely sounded a voice of suffering than that of Layne Staley. This album will be heard and is for people who are just so listen in addition, much too good. Each song is a sad little masterpiece and the board as a whole can be harnessed in difficulties. The fascination of this album is mainly the interaction of Staley and Cantrell, which complement each other perfectly. The expressiveness in the combination of voice and guitar runs between pressed on stubbornly to angry and aggressive. So you can experience long consumed Gitarenläufe and depressed melodic wailing sounds in songs like "Rain When I Die" or "Down in the Hole" whereas you and in "Them Bones" and "God Smack" with slanted choppy riffs of Cantrell and a constantly between melodic screaming changing Staley, feeling the rage of the protagonists.
The depressive mood of the album is mainly the state of mind due to Staley, whose heroin addiction a few years ago took the lives this very talented singer and songwriter. His early death represents a great loss for the music world.

With "Dirt" Jerry Cantrell and Layne Staley played in the Hall of Fame rock. "Dirt" is a very big milestone in the rock of the 90's! Also very successful is the EP "SAP" is sonically located very quiet in the acoustic range but lyrically no less inner conflict Staley reveals with songs like "Am I Inside" or "Brother".