Jerry Cantrell’s new solo album, I Want Blood, is out now and if you pick it up you’ll hear a ton of wah pedal, a ton of talk box, and maybe a Rolling Stones influence, too, and we have the late electric guitar maestro Jeff Beck and legendary film director Martin Scorsese to thank for it.
Speaking to Guitar World, the Alice In Chains guitarist revealed that his influences on the album run the gamut. There are those we might expect, such as Black Sabbath riff-master Tony Iommi, who has always been a lodestar for Cantrell’s writing. But when faced with writer’s block, the lyrics for his follow-up to 2021's Brighten proving hard to come by, Cantrell took himself down to his local cinema in search of inspiration.
