'Atone' soon unfurls with a heavy growl and some Spaghetti Western echoes of Ennio Morricone, as Cantrell returns to the couch and the company of players and producers who helped make it happen. 'You can't listen to music like that!' he says, smiling again as he leans over the mixing board, cranking it way up.

The singer and guitar hero leaps from the couch. But from the first ominous, twangy notes of a song called 'Atone,' things are already going sideways as the low volume is more appropriate for dinner music than an afternoon of bruising rock & roll. Jerry Cantrell has been laughing it up until now, hanging for the last hour with a quartet of friends and collaborators in a small recording studio in Burbank, California, ready to hear a playback of his first solo album in 19 years. and I still have the jars.' See the full post below.Revolver has teamed with Jerry Cantrell for a deluxe collector's bundle featuring a hand-numbered slipcase, alternate cover, exclusive glow-in-the-dark shirt, colored vinyl and more. The album was nominated for a Grammy for best recording package. The flies kept dying, the kid kept complaining, and my assistant kept gathering more flies. My assistant made multiple trips up the street to gather hundreds of flies with a butterfly net at some horse stables. 'I have fond memories of shooting this album cover in my dining room,' Schenck wrote. 'It was just me and my assistant, and a child whose name I've forgotten. Along with other insights, he revealed on Instagram the source of the actual flies pictured on the cover (a horse stable) and the location of the shoot (his dining room). Years ago, Schenck talked to Revolver about the making of Dirt's iconic imagery and shared fascinating behind-the-scenes photos from the cover shoot over the weekend, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of AIC's watershed Jar of FliesEP, he dug up some outtakes from the photo shoot for that record's eerie cover and recounted the story of its creation.

Rocky Schenck is a photographer and director who has shot several album covers and written and directed over 150 music videos, including many for Seattle rock stalwarts Alice in Chains.

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