Alice in Chains - The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here 2013 Full Album HD Remaster

he Devil Put Dinosaurs Here is the fifth studio album by American rock band Alice in Chains, released on May 28, 2013, through Capitol Records, the band's final album released through the label.[8] Following a worldwide tour in support of its previous album, Black Gives Way to Blue (2009), Alice in Chains began work on a new album. The making of The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here lasted for more than a year and the release of the album was delayed numerous times. The band entered the studio in July 2011 to start work on their fifth album.[9] During the writing and recording sessions, guitarist and vocalist Jerry Cantrell underwent shoulder surgery, which resulted in the delay of the album.[10] The recording sessions of The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here were completed in December 2012.[3]

Peaking at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 chart and at No. 1 on the Top Rock Albums chart,[11] the album was well received by music critics, and "Hollow", "Stone", "Voices" were released as singles to promote the album. "Hollow"[12] and "Stone" reached No. 1 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks,[13][14] while "Voices" reached No. 3, and each one of the three songs stayed on the chart for 20 weeks.[15] The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here also reached the top ten in the national albums charts of Australia, Finland and Norway.[16] The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical in 2013,[17] and ranked No. 4 on Loudwire's 2019 list of the Best Rock Albums of the Decade.[18] The mockumentary AIC 23 was released via Funny or Die on April 3, 2013, to promote the album.

Commercial
The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 (the band's highest chart position since 1995's Alice in Chains, which debuted at No. 1), selling 61,000 copies in its first week of release.[51] By July 31, 2013, the album had sold 120,000 copies in the US.[52]

The album also debuted at #2 on the Canadian Albums Chart, selling 7,300 copies in its first week.[53]

Critical reception
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source Rating
Metacritic 70/100[54]
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic [55]
The A.V. Club B−[56]
The Independent [57]
Loudwire [58]
Melodic [59]
Pitchfork 5.9/10[7]
PopMatters 8/10[60]
Rolling Stone [61]
The Skinny [62]
Spin 6/10[63]
The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here has received positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has average score of 70 indicating "generally favorable reviews".[54]

Chad Childers of Loudwire wrote: "With their new album, The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here, the veteran rockers prove they can sustain their excellence. While all the things you would expect from Alice in Chains — sludgy guitars, haunting melodies, dark lyrics — are on the disc, the band shows they can still put a fresh spin on their sound." He went on to say that "while Alice in Chains definitely does "dark" well, songs like 'Low Ceiling' and 'Breath on a Window' offer a catchier, faster-paced alternative and deliver the perfect change of pace needed mid-album" and gave the album four and a half out of five stars.[58] Johan Wippsson of Melodic magazine felt that "The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here is overall a good and stable record, but will not count it as one of the band's best."[59]

Dave Kerr of The Skinny awarded the album four out of five stars and wrote: "Featuring an even split of melodic slowburners and lead-heavy bangers with blindsiding tempo-shifts that arrive like eleventh hour twists to the plot, songs such as Phantom Limb and Breath On A Window carry the familiar hallmarks of AiC's heyday without entirely surrendering to the predictability they might imply. Brooding, doomy riffs usher in soaring two-part harmonies which reiterate that, against some odds, Cantrell has found a worthy foil in co-vocalist William DuVall. A significant addition to their intimidating catalogue."[62]

Stephen Erlewine of AllMusic gave the album a more mixed review saying: "This has a digital sheen that was missing even from Black Gives Way to Blue, and it gives the album an expansive feel, so the patented churn doesn't seem quite so claustrophobic as before. Then again, perhaps that expansiveness is just a sign of age: Alice in Chains are now firmly entrenched in their middle age and settling into what they do best: retaining their signature without pandering and, tellingly, without succumbing to the darkness that otherwise defines them." He went on to give the album three out of five stars.[55]

Jon Dolan of Rolling Stone gave a similar impression, writing: "It's the band's second LP since the 2002 death of singer Layne Staley, and though new vocalist William DuVall doesn't have his predecessor's talent for shaping Seattle sludge into molten-dread anthems, founder Jerry Cantrell's expressively torpid guitar steps up to become its own kind of lead voice, chugging mordantly on 'Hollow' and wailing like My Bloody Valentine on 'Pretty Done.'" He also went on to give the album three out of five stars.[61]

Stephen M. Deusner of Pitchfork Media also gave a mixed review, writing: "[The title] song is six-and-a-half minutes long. It doesn't need to be. Chop it in half and you could double its impact. But the same could be said of just about any track on Dinosaurs, which typically lumber past the five-minute mark. The result is an album that feels much longer than its bloated 70 minutes, that often buries its best moments, that exhausts its most intriguing ideas either by stretching them out or simply repeating them." He then adds "On the other hand, Dinosaurs actually does have some intriguing ideas to exhaust, mostly about how you play mainstream rock in 2013."[7]

Track listing
All songs written by Jerry Cantrell, except where noted

No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "Hollow" 5:43
2. "Pretty Done" 4:35
3. "Stone" 4:23
4. "Voices" 5:42
5. "The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here" Cantrell, Mike Inez, Sean Kinney 6:38
6. "Lab Monkey" 5:59
7. "Low Ceiling" Cantrell, Kinney, Inez 5:15
8. "Breath on a Window" 5:18
9. "Scalpel" Cantrell, Kinney, Inez 5:21
10. "Phantom Limb" William DuVall, Cantrell, Kinney, Inez 7:07
11. "Hung on a Hook" 5:34
12. "Choke" Cantrell, Kinney, Inez 5:44
Total length: 67:17
Personnel
Jerry Cantrell – lead vocals, lead guitar
William DuVall – lead vocals, rhythm guitar, guitar solo on "Phantom Limb"
Sean Kinney – drums, percussion
Mike Inez – bass
Production
Produced by Nick Raskulinecz and Alice in Chains
Engineered by Paul Figueroa
Mixing by Randy Staub
Mastering by Ted Jensen
Artwork by Ryan Clark
Photography by Kabacchi & Ballista
Management by Velvet Hammer Music and Management Group and Susan Silver Management