William Duvall Biography

William DuVall born William Bradley DuVall is an American musician, best known as the current co-lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist for the rock band Alice in Chains. DuVall is also co-founder, lead singer, guitarist and lyricist for Comes with the Fall. To date, DuVall has recorded three albums with the band, 2009’s Black Gives Way to Blue, 2013’s The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here, and 2018’s Rainier Fog.

He joined Alice in Chains in 2006, replacing the band’s original lead singer Layne Staley and sharing vocal duties with guitarist/vocalist Jerry Cantrell. Layne died in 2002.

Since 2016, he is the lead vocalist for the supergroup Giraffe Tongue Orchestra. In his long musical career, DuVall has played a role in many bands playing in a variety of genres, an example being the influential punk rock group Neon Christ.

William Duvall Age

William Bradley DuVall was born in Washington, D.C. on September 6, 1967. He is 51 years as of 2018 and his nationality is American. Additionally, his Birth Sign Virgo.

William Duvall Family

He was born and raised in Washington, D.C. The United States. However, there is no information about his family or his children but will be updated as soon as it is clear.

William Duvall Career

DuVall’s music career began in the early 1980s Atlanta hardcore punk scene. He first performed with Awareness Void of Chaos.

He helped found the controversial Atlanta-based hardcore punk band Neon Christ in 1983, contributing guitars and lyrics to the band’s albums.

Other members of this band were vocalist Randy DuTeau, bassist Danny Lankford, and drummer Jimmy Demer.

Neon Christ had strong ties to hardcore luminaries Corrosion of Conformity and Bl’ast. With a couple of short East Coast tours and two albums, the politically-pointed band started gaining popularity. The band used its popularity to support many charitable causes including working to free Fela Anikulapo Kuti.

The band disbanded in 1986, and thereafter Neon Christ originally broke up, DuVall was briefly the second guitarist in the popular Northern California hardcore punk band Bl’ast, contributing a small bit of writing to their second album, It’s In My Blood. It released on the hardcore punk–alternative label SST Records, founded by Greg Ginn of hardcore punk band Black Flag. DuVall did not, however, stay with the band long enough to record on the album.

The 2000s

In early 2000, DuVall met Alice in Chains guitarist/vocalist Jerry Cantrell in Los Angeles through a mutual acquaintance who introduced Cantrell to Comes with the Fall’s self-titled first album. Cantrell started hanging out with the band and occasionally joining them onstage. The following year, Comes with the Fall was both the opening act on Cantrell’s tour for his second solo album, Degradation Trip and also the singer’s backing band, with DuVall singing Staley’s parts at the concerts from 2001 to 2002.

DuVall joined Alice in Chains as lead singer during the band’s reunion concerts in 2006, and made his first public performance with the band at VH1’s Decades Rock Live concert honoring Heart, in which he sang Alice in Chains’ “Rooster”. According to Cantrell, it only took one audition for DuVall to get the gig. For his first rehearsal with the band, DuVall sang Alice in Chains’ “Love, Hate, Love”. After they finished, drummer Sean Kinney looked at his bandmates and said, “I think the search is pretty much over”.

According to bassist Mike Inez, DuVall didn’t try to emulate Staley, and that’s what drew them to him. DuVall revealed that Ann Wilson of Heart was supposed to sing “Rooster” at the show, but during the camera-blocking rehearsals, he was there on stage and Ann hadn’t made it downstairs yet, so they said, “Would you sing ‘Rooster’ for the camera blocking?”, and he sang it.

When Ann came back and saw him singing, she told DuVall that he should sing the song instead.

DuVall thanks Ann Wilson for giving him a spot on the TV show, because that moment served as the coming-out party for this incarnation of Alice in Chains, and it wouldn’t have happened if Ann hadn’t done that. Initially, Cantrell and the other veteran members of Alice in Chains had said this reunion didn’t necessarily foretell a future for the band and that this was just a tribute to Staley and their fans.

In 2007, Alice in Chains began touring with Velvet Revolver and Kill Hannah. The ReEvolution tour was in two parts. The first took in many European cities and the Eastern United States. The second part also referred to as “The Libertad Tour”, is primarily a cross-country tour that spread into three cities in Canada. For the first time in 15 years, Alice In Chains toured Australia as the second headliner under Nine Inch Nails on the Soundwave Festival. In 2008, DuVall performed vocal duties with MC5/DTK at the Meltdown Festival curated by Massive Attack.

From 2011

Also in 2011, Alice in Chains took time off after touring more than 30 countries and mourning the death of their original bass player Mike Starr, according to his long-time replacement Mike Inez. However, DuVall stated that there was a possibility of another album in the near future, commenting, “It would be fairly safe to say that you don’t come this far and do all this work just to stop for another 15 years.”

In March 2011, it was announced that Alice in Chains would begin recording a new album at the tail end of 2011. In May 2013, the album The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here was released. DuVall sings lead vocals on the songs “Hung on a Hook” and “Phantom Limb”. He also wrote the lyrics and the guitar solo for “Phantom Limb”, the first solo he wrote for Alice in Chains.

Cantrell is the primary lead singer of Alice in Chains’ post-Staley albums, while DuVall takes Staley’s role while performing the old songs in live concerts.

DuVall reunited with his former Neon Christ bandmates to do a documentary film called All Alone Together: Neon Christ and Atlanta Hardcore, which he said director Edgar Johnson had first pitched to him back in 2005.

In 2016, he released the album Broken Lines with the supergroup Giraffe Tongue Orchestra, founded by lead guitarist Ben Weinman of The Dillinger Escape Plan, and also featuring guitarist Brent Hinds of Mastodon, drummer Thomas Pridgen of The Mars Volta, and bassist Wielbert Collinson of Dethklok and Zappa Plays Zappa.

In February 2018, Framus Guitars released the “William DuVall Talisman Signature” model designed by DuVall.

Alice in Chains’ sixth studio album (and the third with DuVall), is titled Rainier Fog and was released on August 24, 2018. The album’s second single, “So Far Under”, was written by DuVall, who also played the guitar solo on the track.

The third single, “Never Fade”, was co-written by DuVall and Cantrell, who also share lead vocals, with DuVall singing the verses and the pre-chorus, while Cantrell sings the chorus. The song was inspired by the deaths of DuVall’s grandmother and the late Soundgarden lead vocalist Chris Cornell.

In December 2018, DuVall and Jerry Cantrell were tied at No. 10 on Total guitar/MusicRadar’s “15 best rock guitarists in the world right now” poll. On January 16, 2019, DuVall along with Jerry Cantrell, Pearl Jam’s guitarist Stone Gossard, and bassist Jeff Ament, and drummer Josh Freese performed Soundgarden’s “Hunted Down” at the Chris Cornell tribute concert “I Am The Highway”.

William Duvall Net Worth

DuVall is an American musician, best known as the current co-lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist for the rock band Alice in Chains. His musical career is his primary source of income. However, his estimated net worth is still under review.