Fans are expecting a brand new Alice In Chains album in 2013 and it looks as if they will actually get it. No 14 year follow up this time around! Guitarist Jerry Cantrell told guitar world that their untitled fifth studio album is complete.
This 2013 album will be the follow up to 2009's "Black Gives Way To Blue" and the second record without original vocalist Layne Staley. Cantrell said that the pressure was like "having to deal with the sophomore jinx for the second time in our career."
The forty-six year old guitarist is proud of the new album and confident it will do just as well as their previous release, he goes on to say, "In my opinion, that record (Black gives way to blue) stood up to anything else we've put out in our career and this new one is right up there, as well."
The fifth studio album would have seen the light of day sooner but Jerry Cantrell's shoulder surgery delayed the process. It seems as if fans won't have to wait much longer, however, the album hasn't been given an official release date but sources believe that it will hit streets in early 2013.
The band has begun teasing their first single "Hollow" on their website and Instagram page, saying it will be released on Dec. 18th.
