Jerry Cantrell – releases deluxe album + announces UK & EU shows

Jerry Cantrell kicks off his first North American tour in support of his recently released album, I Want Blood, tonight in Niagara Falls, Ontario. These dates precede the newly announced UK & European tours this summer, including an appearance at Download Festival and a headline show at The Forum in London in June.
 
The tour launch coincides with the arrival of a deluxe version of the nine-track collection. Featuring spoken word versions of each of the songs on I Want Blood, the Cantrell-narrated pieces also feature their own unique score with contributions from producer Joe Barresi, engineer Maxwell Urasky, Greg Puciato (Better Lovers, The Black Queen), Roy Mayorga (Ministry), Gil Sharone (Stolen Babies, Team Sleep), Rani Sharone (Stolen Babies), George Adrian (The Maybirds), composer Vincent Jones, and producer Michael Rozon.
 
An animated video series featuring graphics from Boy Tillekens can be viewed here.
 
“I wanted to do something special and I’ve never done a spoken word recitation of the lyrics, and I thought it might be kind of cool to have it on the B-side of ‘Vilified,’” Cantrell recalls in a recent interview with Scott Lipps.
 
“I thought maybe it needs some music or something, and I was sitting there with Maxwell Urasky, my demo partner. He’s a really talented musician, and he said ‘Let me mess around with it for a night.’ He came back the next day with that piece of music, and it sounded killer. I brought it in to Joe Barresi and he said, ‘Man, you should do this with all of them.’ I got this creative stew going of sending the lyrics out to people, having them come up with the music, and sending it back. We ended up with nine pieces of really interesting takes on the lyrics, but the music is done by creative partners of mine, and it has nothing to do with the real music, so it is truly a standalone piece.”
 
I Want Blood was recorded at Barresi’s JHOC Studio in Pasadena, Calif., and features contributions from Duff McKagan (Guns N’Roses), Mike Bordin (Faith No More), Robert Trujillo (Metallica), Greg Puciato (Better Lovers, ex-Dillinger Escape Plan), Gil Sharone (Team Sleep, Stolen Babies), and Lola Colette.

Jerry Cantrell UK & EU Tour Dates:
May 31  Padua, IT  Hall
June 1  Milan, IT  Magazzini Generali
June 4  Krakow, PL  Mystic Festival
June 6  Berlin, DE  Columbia Theater
June 7  Nüremberg, DE  Rock im Park
June 8  Nürnberg, DE  Rock am Ring
June 10  Zagreb, HR  The Culture Factory
June 12  Nickelsdorf, AT  Nova Rock Festival
June 13  Hradec Kralove, CZ  Rock The People
June 14 – 15  Donington Park, UK  Download Festival
June 17  London, UK  O2 Forum Kentish Town
June 19  Amsterdam, NL  Melkweg
June 20  Dessel, BE  Graspop Metal Meeting
June 22  Clisson, FR  Hellfest Open Air Festival
June 24  Paris, FR  La Machine du Moulin Rouge
June 25  Nijmegen, NL  Doornroosje
June 26  Hamburg, DE  Gruenspan
June 28  Oslo, NO  Tons of Rock

The album is available on CD, digitally, and multiple 2LP vinyl variants:  https://bio.to/JerryCantrell.

Tickets are available now at jerrycantrell.com/tour.