Alice in Chains’ Jerry Cantrell has confirmed that he is finished working on his third solo album, his first ful l-length solo effort since 2002.Cantrell’s debut album Boggy Depot was released in 1998; In 2002, his second album Degradation Trip came out. He dedicated the record to Layne Staley, who had just died a few months prior to its release.
Since the death of Staley, Cantrell, Mike Inez and Sean Kinney were joined by William DuVall on vocals, and this rendition of Alice in Chains has released three albums — 2009’s Black Gives Way to Blue, 2013’s The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here and 2018’s Rainier Fog.
Cantrell shared news of his third solo album on Instagram, along with a photo of himself, former Dillinger Escape Plan singer Greg Puciato and studio engineers Paul Fig and Joe Barresi. The photo was captioned: “Finished my record tonight one year to the day from when we started recording it,” the guitarist wrote. “What a crazy journey… always is. Look forward to setting it free upon your ear holes sometime soon.”
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