Jerry Cantrell
Long before Alice in Chains, Jerry Cantrell performed a cappella Gregorian chants in his high-school choir ("scary church music", as he put it), and he traces his fondness for dark tones to those years.
Harmony stayed central in Alice in Chains, the band he founded, where his voice entwined with Layne Staley's above riffs that gave grunge a heavy metal edge. His writing ran deeply personal: 'Rooster' honoured his Vietnam-veteran father, while 'Would?' mourned his friend Andrew Wood, the Mother Love Bone frontman.
After Staley died in 2002, Cantrell sang lead on three further Alice in Chains albums, including Rainier Fog. His solo records span Boggy Depot to 2024's I Want Blood.
If you like Jerry Cantrell you should check out: Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, Chris Cornell, Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots, Screaming Trees, Mudhoney, Nirvana, Audioslave, Pantera
