Watch: Jerry Cantrell’s ‘I Want Blood’ Record-Release Concert In Pioneertown

To celebrate the release of “I Want Blood”, Alice In Chains’ guitarist/vocalist is doing a North American tour of the same name!

The tour starts on January 31 in Niagara Falls and rolls across the continent, wrapping up in Jerry’s home state of Washington.

The new “I Want Blood”, was co-produced by Cantrell and Joe Barresi (Tool, QOTSA, Melvins) and was recorded at Barresi’s JHOC Studio in Pasadena, California. You’ll notice some of rock’s biggest on the album; Duff McKagan (Guns N’ Roses), Robert Trujillo (Metallica), drummers Gil Sharone (Team Sleep) and Mike Bordin (Faith No More) and backing vocals from Lola Colette and Greg Puciato (Better Lovers, ex-The Dillinger Escape Plan).

Cantrell recently did an interview with Australia’s Heavy and talked about the confidence of the new album, “Well, I would hope that most artists would feel pretty confident about their new record. If you don’t, you probably shouldn’t put it out. Making an album, it’s a real commitment, and it’s also a real special opportunity that not everybody gets to do. So I take it really seriously. I also have a lot of fun with it, too, and enjoy the process, ’cause it’s a long ride to demoing it and writing it and then recording it and then taking it out on tour. So, you’re looking at a two-to-three-year commitment there. And you wanna be marching out of the studio with something you feel pretty strongly about. And I think ‘I Want Blood’, it’s the best record I could have made at that time. And I’d stand it up against any work I’ve done in my career. So, I have that confidence about it, but I make music for me first, and if it satisfies me, I’ve been really lucky that it seems to do the same for a lot of people who’ve been interested in work that I’ve been involved in. Rock and roll’s not for everybody, but it finds its people, so it’s time to throw it out there and see who grabs on to it.”