Alice in Chains guitar icon Jerry Cantrell has announced , his fourth solo record, will be released on October 18 – and it features a host of high-profile guests. duties are handled by Duff McKagan (Guns N’ Roses) and Robert Trujillo (Metallica), while Faith No More’s Mike Bordin also features on drums, in effect reuniting the Cantrell/Trujillo/Bordin power trio behind 2002’s epic double album . Other guests include drummer Gil Sharone (Team Sleep, Stolen Babies), with backing vocals provided by Lola Colette and Greg Puciato (Better Lovers, ex-Dillinger Escape Plan).
Opening track is the first taste of the record, which finds Cantrell breaking out both the talk box the wah over a 6/8 groove that wouldn’t sound out of place in early ’90s Alice in Chains. Accordingly, the 45-minute collection is an altogether heavier effort when compared with Cantrell’s previous album, the folk-infused (2021). “This record is a serious piece of work.
It’s a motherfucker,” Cantrell says of his upcoming release. “It’s hard, no doubt, and completely unlike . And that’s what you want, to end up in a different place.
There’s a confidence to this album. I think it’s some of my best songwriting and playing, and certainly some of my best singing.” The record was co-produced by Cantrell and Joe Barresi, whose resume includes Tool, Queens of the Stone Age and Melvins – and explains why the is quite so ferocious on this opening cut.
is out on October 18 via Double J Music.