mad season

The Prince of Darkness apparently wasn't impressed.

Alt-rock was thriving, grunge was hitting a tipping point, but there were still plenty of acts just starting to make their mark on rock and metal music.

Grunge was going strong, but it wasn't the only game in town in 1995. How many of these albums from 30 years ago do you remember?

The biggest rock and metal bands that have released three or less albums due to break-ups, deaths, legal issues and more.

As quickly as it exploded, it seemed to fade away.

Break out the flannel and rock out once more.

Blow out the candles!

She performed at a Layne Staley tribute show.

Chris Cornell, Duff McKagan and a host of Seattle favorites joined Mad Season and the Seattle Symphony for their 'Sonic Evolution' show.

Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready and Screaming Trees’ Barrett Martin (and three mystery guests) will join forces to pay tribute to their former supergroup, Mad Season.

Mad Season's tenure was short, but it's no less of a fond memory for drummer Barrett Martin. The musician, who was probably better known for his work behind the kit with Screaming Trees back in their '90s heyday, offers up a few remembrances of his late Mad Season bandmate Layne Staley in a new video posted at Diffuser.fm.

While the idea of getting a bunch of established musicians together to form a 'supergroup' sounds promising, more often than not, I'm disappointed when I hear the end result. Writing music is all about feeling and being in your element and the chemistry artists have with their better known bands is natural and most of the time, 'supergroup' music sounds forced to me...