Jerry Cantrell’s new song, ‘Afterglow’ arrives with a video created by award-winning artist Matt Mahurin, whose work is noted for blending realism with abstract and surreal elements, which shines through in the five-minute piece. The track is taken from Cantrell’s new album ‘I Want Blood’ which is set for release on the 18th of October.
“The incredible Matt Mahurin and I created a moving piece of film to accompany the song,” Cantrell says, adding “Check it out. If you want blood, you got it.”
Mahurin shares:
“Two of my all-time favorite videos I’ve directed are ‘No Excuses’ and ‘Angry Chair” for Alice In Chains in the early 1990’s. To be able to once again offer my visual work to Jerry’s ‘Afterglow’ some thirty years later was a blast. From opera aria to pop tune, everybody sees a movie playing in their mind’s eye when they listen to a song. Jerry inspired a welcome fever dream that I was grateful to lure out of my mind’s eye,”
Smooth rock delivered from one of life’s greatest song craftsmen. After the swirling macho rock of ‘Vilified’ Cantrell shows another side as he lays down a more laid back mature track that still instantly likeable.
Check it out, here
I Want Blood tracklist:
- Vilified
- Off The Rails
- Afterglow
- I Want Blood
- Echoes Of Laughter
- Throw Me A Line
- Let It Lie
- Held Your Tongue
- It Comes
Album pre-orders, which include CD, digital and multiple 2LP variants, are available here
Exclusive to the 2LP vinyl versions of I Want Blood are atmospheric, spoken word versions of each song on the album.
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