Much to the surprise of fans and press alike, Alice in Chains will release a new album this summer, their first recorded in Seattle since their 1995 self-titled album [Columbia]. In an interview given to Guitar World by guitarist Jerry Cantrell, he called the upcoming release "a record we haven’t done yet...But it’s also a record that has all the elements of anything you would expect from us. It’s got our fingerprint. And we’re really proud of the material that we wrote and the performances we captured. There’s some really heavy shit, some really ugly stuff, some real beautiful stuff, some weirdo trippy shit...it’s good!”
The band will hit the road later this year and will already be touring by the time the as-of-yet untitled new album is released.
