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  • Summary: The fourth full-length solo release from Alice In Chains guitarist Jerry Cantrell features contributions from Mike Bordin, Lola Colette, Vincent Jones, Duff McKagan, Greg Puciato, Gil Sharone, and Robert Trujillo.
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  1. Oct 16, 2024
    80
    It’s an altogether more oppressive album than Brighten, and therefore something that Alice In Chains fans are going to want in their lives. That said, I Want Blood still knows when to pause for breath.
  2. 80
    Cantrell's voice remains as strong as ever, unwavering and carrying a portentous authority. similarly, Let It lie, with its pounding, doom-laden, Black Sabbath-influenced riff, is the punch in the nose none of us knew we needed. [Nov 2024, p.78]
  3. Oct 16, 2024
    80
    I Want Blood is the best album Jerry Cantrell has released since at least 2002’s Degradation Trip, if not 1995’s eponymous Alice in Chains release. It shows Cantrell continuing to stretch artistically, especially as a singer, while leaning on the musical chops that made him a generation’s guitar hero.
  4. Record Collector
    Nov 4, 2024
    80
    It's a beautiful album, finely written and exquisitely executed. [Dec 2024, p.106]
  5. Oct 17, 2024
    80
    A bold and bruising nine-song set befitting an architect of grunge and alternative hard rock.
  6. Mojo
    Oct 16, 2024
    60
    There’s nothing here to startle, just further confirmation that Cantrell remains a force to be reckoned with. [Dec 2024, p.84]