layne staley

Blow out the candles, all you rock stars celebrating birthdays in August.

See our picks for the five heaviest Alice In Chains songs that feature Layne Staley on vocals, including 'Them Bones' and more.

Here are the reasons we love late Alice In Chains frontman Layne Staley, who died on April 5, 2002, just eight years after Nirvana's Kurt Cobain.

Get the history behind these two tragedies.

One of the greatest.

Remembering the frontman.

Late Alice in Chains frontman appears in traded VHS from 1996 concert with Kiss.

It's a previously unseen video.

Jerry Cantrell and Sean Kinney discuss late singer's sense of humor after 'Dirt' returns to chart.

He was initially pocketing them for something other than 'Dirt.'

Death can provide inspiration.

Band has soldiered on since singer died in 2002.