Days after kicking off their summer tour, Alice in Chains have unveiled "The One You Know," their first new song in five years. The sludgy cut leads the way for the band's as-yet-unnamed follow-up to 2013's The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here, which is currently slated to drop sometime this summer, per guitarist/vocalist Jerry Cantrell; it arrives alongside a microbiology-themed visual that juxtaposes shots of tiny critters with much-larger-sized performance scenes.
Cantrell detailed the forthcoming LP in an interview with Guitar World earlier this month, framing it as both a journey into uncharted sounds they "haven't done yet," and an honest-to-goodness Alice in Chains record. "It's got our fingerprint," he said of the album. "We're really proud of the material that we wrote and the performances we captured. There's some really heavy shit, some really ugly stuff, some real beautiful stuff, some weirdo trippy shit ... it's good!"
As with the full-length writ large, "The One You Know" was recorded with producer Nick Raskulinecz at Studio X in Alice in Chains' native Seattle, where they previously laid down tracks for the group's 1995 self-titled LP. (Additional sessions took place in Los Angeles and Nashville.) It marks the first release recorded by the band on their home turf in over 20 years.
Alice in Chains will be on the road through late September, with dates scheduled at large venues and festivals across the globe. Read on for a full itinerary.
Alice in Chains tour dates:
May 04 — Charlotte, NC — Carolina Rebellion
May 05 — Virginia Beach — WNOR Lunatic Luau
May 07 — New York, NY — Hammerstein Ballroom
May 08 — New York, NY — Hammerstein Ballroom
May 10 — Atlanta, GA — Coca-Cola Roxy
May 13 — Somerset, WI — Northern Invasion
May 15 — Chicago, IL — Riviera Theatre
May 16 — South Bend, IN — Morris Performing Arts Center
May 18 — Columbus, OH — Rock on the Range
May 19 — Philadelphia, PA — WMMR BBQ
Jun. 16 — Leeds, England — O2 Academy
Jun. 17 — London, England — 02 Shepherd's Bush Empire
Jun. 20 — Stockholm, Sweden — Grona Lund
Jun. 21 — Halden, Norway — Tons of Rock Festival
Jun. 22 — Copenhagen, Denmark — Copenhell
Jun. 24 — Clisson, France — Hellfest
Jun. 25 — Zagreb, Croatia — INmusic Festival
Jun. 28 — Padua, Italy — Sherwood
Jun. 30 — Bezirk-Landstrasse, Austria — Arena Open Air Wien
Jul. 01 — Budapest, Hungary — Budapest Park
Jul. 03 — Berlin, Germany — Huxley's Neue Welt
Jul. 04 — Cologne, Germany — Live Music Hall
Jul. 05-07 — Werchter, Belgium — Rock Werchter
Jul. 08 — Belford, France — Les Eurockeennes 30
Jul. 10 — Milan, Italy — Ippodromo Snai San Siro
Jul. 13 — Madrid, Spain — Mad Cool Festival
Jul. 14 — Lisboa, Portugal — NOS Alive
Jul. 17—18 Tel Aviv, Israel — Caesarea
Aug. 22 — Vancouver, BC — Queen Elizabeth Theatre
Aug. 28 — Paso Robles, CA — Vino Robles Amp
Aug. 29 — Los Angeles, CA — Palladium
Aug. 31 — Riverside, CA — Riverside Municipal Auditorium
Sept. 01 — Las Vegas, NV — The Pearl
Sept. 03 — Tucson, AZ — Tucson Music Hall
Sept. 04 — El Paso, TX — Abraham Chavez Theatre
Sept. 06 — Austin, TX — ACL Live
Sept. 07 — Houston, TX — Revention Music Center
Sept. 08 — Dallas, TX — Pavilion — Toyota Music Factory
Sept. 10 — Tulsa, OK — Brady Theatre
Sept. 11 — Kansas City, MO — Midland Theatre
Sept. 13 — Denver, CO — Fillmore
Sept. 15 — Phoenix, AZ — Comerica Theatre
