We’ve Got A Few Creative Irons In The Fire

Alice In Chains has largely saved themselves on folks’s radar the previous few years with some touring and anniversary reissues of each Filth and Jar Of Flies. Whereas we have not gotten a brand new Alice In Chains file since Rainier Fog in 2018, it appears that evidently at the least the band is beginning to consider one.

In keeping with Alice In Chains vocalist and guitarist Jerry Cantrell in an interview with Loudwire, the band is engaged on each “artistic” endeavors and non-album issues. Although Cantrell notes he simply began the promotional cycle for his upcoming solo album I Need Blood, and nothing’s gonna occur till that is over.

“There’s a few issues that we’re engaged on, like non-album associated,” mentioned Cantrell. “We’ll soar on a name [soon], we have a number of artistic irons within the hearth, however I am on the very starting of this cycle that I’ve dedicated to so I just about type of maintain my concentrate on this.”

Alice In Chains vocalist William DuVall addressed the subject of a possible new album in a 2023 interview with 105.5 WDHA, saying just about the identical – everybody within the band has stuff happening.

“I’d suppose [new music will happen], proper?” mentioned DuVall. “There isn’t any plans within the offing proper now, as a result of we’re all type of doing different issues. However inevitably it appears to type of circle again.”

He continued: “Proper now we’re simply popping out of the lockdowns, and we have all been busy doing our personal factor. Jerry is out on tour in the mean time for his solo album, and I am doing my factor. We’ve got plans for some reside exhibits in September/October, and I am certain that may blow off the cobwebs and we’ll begin some new concepts for the subsequent Alice In Chains album.

“We had a variety of time imposed on us and I feel we’re going by means of this era of catching up on issues that we had deliberate for 2020 [and] 2021, and we’re all lastly getting to do this now. So, it is type of like a stopgap and we’re simply coping with all of those stockpiled initiatives that we had deliberate a number of years again. So as soon as we get again up to the mark with issues and we get these dates underway in late summer season, I am certain it can spark an entire bunch of concepts for the subsequent Alice In Chains studio album.”