Artist: Jerry Cantrell
Genre(s):
Rock
Metal: Alternative
Discography:
Boggy Depot
Year: 1998
Tracks: 12
Degradation Trip
Year:
Tracks: 14
Jerry Cantrell beginning came to prominence as a member of Alice in Chains, one of the archetypal Seattle stain bands. With their 1990 debut Nip and tuck, the quartet scored a surprise impinge on with the ultra-heavy "Man in the Box," and haven't looked bet on since. Racking up such shoot albums as 1992's Soil and 1995's self-titled release, the band rosiness to the top of the alterna-metal pile. Lead singer Layne Staley couldn't header with the press of their enormous success, and sank farther and further into means pervert. Due to Staley's problems, the isthmus has to date been unable to put on a substantial hitch since 1993's Lollapalooza, and the lie of the band understandably got a little antsy.
Over the course of their career, the grouping has issued two successful all-acoustic EPs and one unplugged record album, which focused principally on the songwriting and arranging talents of Cantrell, whom fans ground out had a very warm voice to boot. With the future of the band up in the air, Cantrell appeared as a solo creative person on the soundtrack for the film The Cable Guy, conducive the runway "Lead Me Alone." After AiC open for the number one Kiss reunion show in Detroit in 1996, Cantrell began work on his very kickoff solo album. He enlisted Alice drummer Sean Kinney and a revolving series of bassists -- including Alice's Mike Inez, Les Claypool, Fishbone's Norwood Fisher and Pantera's Rex -- and determine out to record Mucky Depot with producer Toby Wright, world Health Organization had antecedently worked with Alice in Chains and the Nixons. The record was finished by the end of the year and was released in the bound of 1998 to generally positive reviews. He supported the record album as Van Halen's possibility move on their summer 1998 circuit. A long silence followed afterwards his touring as he helped on a few Alice in Chains releases, including a box rig and a superlative hits. He stepped bet on into the studio to record his second album, this sentence for Roadrunner Records, in the fall of 2001. He worked with Ozzy Osbourne's touring isthmus on the record album, which sawing machine him trying to ward off edgar Guest appearances despite the high profile friends he could have counted on. Right earlier the record album was ready to drop in 2002, tragedy stricken as Layne Staley's dead body was constitute dead in his flat. The left over members of Alice in Chains went to a vigil in a Seattle mungo Park and released a plaintive instruction, but the incident did non stop consonant Cantrell from pushing onward and cathartic Debasement Trip that summer.
