Hollow (Alice in Chains song)
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| Single by Alice in Chains | ||||
| from the album The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here | ||||
| Released | December 18, 2012 | |||
| Format | Digital download | |||
| Genre | Sludge metal,stoner rock, doom metal | |||
| Length | 5:43 | |||
| Label | Virgin/EMI | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Jerry Cantrell | |||
| Producer(s) | Nick Raskulinecz, Alice in Chains | |||
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Artwork used for the initial online release of the song's fan lyric YouTube video in December 2012.
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"Hollow" is the first single by American rock band Alice in Chains from their fifth studio album, The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here, released in May 28, 2013. On December 18, 2012, the band debuted the song on YouTube with a fan-made lyric video. The lyric video contains static images submitted by fans via Instagram. The song was made available for digital download on January 8, 2013."Hollow" reached No. 1 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks and stayed on the chart for 20 weeks. It is played in a 6/4 time signature during the verses, and in a standard 4/4 signature during the choruses.
Asked by Music Radar if he worked out the phrasing over time or if it was immediate, Jerry Cantrell said of the riff:
"That one was pretty immediate. It came about on the last night of the Black Diamond Skye tour we did [in 2010], our headlining run with the Deftones and Mastodon. It was the very last show, we were in Vegas and I was sick as hell - I was about a click above pneumonia. But I was warming up in my dressing room, and I started playing that riff. Right away, I knew it was a good one to store away for later, so I recorded it. Nick [Raskulinecz] happened to be at that show, and so were my managers. Everybody perked up when they heard me playing it. 'What's that? That's pretty good!' [Laughs] I was like, 'Yeah, it is.' So I tucked it away. It was pretty immediate the way it came to me."
Cantrell said of the song during an interview with Ultimate Guitar in 2013:
We didn't intend for it to do what it's done and that's all the more the better. It's just like, "F--k that's cool." It's like a six-minute kind of sludgy metal song and it ended up being a number one f--kin' single. We didn't intend on it being a single. We put that song out for our fans as a taste and get them involved in helping us make a lyric video for it. We put it out on our own and we didn't really serve it to radio until radio started to call us and then we started sending it to 'em. It just kinda got a head of steam and started rolling so it was way cool. Very cool and very proud of that and completely organic.
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