Alice In Chains weren't originally supposed to be on the Clash Of The Titans tour.
The Seattle grunge band were drafted in after rising Bay Area thrashers Death Angel, booked to open the 49-date trek across the US and Canada, were involved in a horrific coach crash in the Arizona desert on November 28, 1990, which left drummer Andy Galeon critically injured. That, at the time, Slayer guitarist Kerry King had Alice In Chains pegged as "a hippy pop band" was, perhaps, a foreshadowing of the reactions which Layne Staley and Jerry Cantrell's band would face from Slayer's fans when the tour got underway in the summer of 1991.
