Thursday, January 12th 2012
News: Alice In Chains
Alice In Chains At Work On New Album
After 2009′s gorgeous Black Gives Way To Blue album and subsequent touring cycles, Alice In Chains are getting back into the studio this year to record a new album.
Rolling Stone reports that guitarist/vocalist Jerry Cantrell confirms the band will be working on the follow-up to their last album, their first to feature new singer William Duvall.
“We started writing last year,” Cantrell dished at the recent Dimebash tribute in L.A., the annual show in honor late guitarist “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott.
According to Cantrell, the group will hit the studio in the Spring – something everyone involved has been chomping at the bit to return to. Cantrell had some medical ailments to deal with, however, which kept him out of full work mode: “I had shoulder surgery. I had to get some bone spurs and torn cartilage taken care of, so that put me back a little bit,” he says. “But we’ve been writing through the whole process.”
A lot of metal maniacs cocked a hard eyebrow at the news before the last record dropped that Elton John would be involved, but EJ’s feature on piano on the album’s title track was a beautiful one. There won’t be a repeat performance, however, as Cantrell has no plans to turn the band’s albums into guesting carousels.
“That’s just the universe lining up right. I had nothing to do with that other than asking,” Cantrell says. “What (Elton) is, beyond anything else, is a fucking amazing musician. And he’s the guy who inspired me to start playing music, so to have him play on one of our records – especially such a meaningful record, where we’re restarting our musical careers and saying goodbye and honoring our buddy [the late Layne Staley] – it’s a tremendous thing.”
They’d be better off as a trio than continuing with that Lenny Kravitz wannabe.
That’s a pretty ignorant reduction of Duvall. I did like him better in his previous band though.
Your opinion is fine, but…..stop, please.
Have you seen Duvall on stage? He copies Kravitz moves.
What exactly is a Lenny Kravitz move?
You know when he bobs his head side to side when he sings a groovy punchy bit of the song. You can see it right.
I stand corrected. Lenny was the first and only guy to bob his head to a groove. Someone really should call out every other front man while we’re at it for lifting Lenny’s moves.
…or is it because he has an afro and he’s black….
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