ALICE IN CHAINS: New Audio Interview With JERRY CANTRELL Available

February 20, 2009

Guitarist Jerry Cantrell of ALICE IN CHAINS was interviewed earlier this week by Andrew Haug of Triple J's "Full Metal Racket" (based in Australia). Listen to the interview in streaming audio at the Triple J web site: Windows Media, Real Media (NOTE: The first part of the Jerry Cantrell interview begins around the one-hour, 37-minute mark). Check out the program's entire playlist at this location.

Cantrell recently spoke with Australia's Courier-Mail about the group's upcoming album, its first full-length set of new material in more than 13 years and first without lead singer Layne Staley, who died in 2002 after a long battle with drug addiction. Handling lead vocals is William DuVall, who has sung with the group ever since it reactivated in 2005. Cantrell said, "The new stuff is cool. It's pretty goddamn crushing. I've stepped up a little bit from where I was before . . . obviously, it'll be a new sound from William being there — but it sounds like an ALICE IN CHAINS record and a kick-ass one. There's everything from the darkest of dark, heavy shit to acoustic stuff. Throw all that together and that's what you'll get."

Cantrell told The Pulse of Radio when the band first got back together that they did not have a set plan to tour or make a new album. "You know, if you were looking at how to really capitalize on this experience and really make dough and make it a profitable thing, a band might, you know, would come out with a singer, have a record ready and all that," he said. "But that's not where we're coming from with this thing. We're coming from the place of 'It feels good, and we're having a good time, so we'd like people to be a part of that.'"

ALICE IN CHAINS will perform this week as part of Australia's Soundwave Festival. With the exception of a radio festival last fall, these will be the group's first live performances since 2007.

Cantrell said that the Australian audiences "may get one or two songs" from the new record, which does not yet have a title or release date.

ALICE IN CHAINS is also scheduled to play at Columbus, Ohio's Rock On The Range festival in mid-May.

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