77 on its list of "100 Greatest Guitar Solos" in 2008. Guitar World also ranked Cantrell's solo in " Man in the Box" at No. Guitar World Magazine ranked Cantrell as the 38th out of "100 Greatest Heavy Metal Guitarists of All Time" in 2004, and the 37th "Greatest Guitar Player of All Time" in 2012. Cantrell has also collaborated and performed with Heart, Ozzy Osbourne, Metallica, Pantera, Circus of Power, Metal Church, Gov't Mule, Damageplan, Pearl Jam, The Cult, Stone Temple Pilots, Danzig, Glenn Hughes, Duff McKagan and Deftones, among others.Ĭantrell was named " Riff Lord" by British hard rock/metal magazine Metal Hammer in 2006. His third solo album, Brighten will be released on October 29, 2021. He also has a solo career and released the albums Boggy Depot in 1998 and Degradation Trip Volumes 1 & 2 in 2002. After Staley's death in 2002, Cantrell took the role of Alice in Chains' lead singer on most of the songs from the band's post-Staley albums, Black Gives Way to Blue (2009), The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here (2013) and Rainier Fog (2018), with DuVall harmonizing with him in the new songs and singing Staley's vocals in the old songs in live concerts.
Cantrell started to sing lead vocals on Alice in Chains' 1992 EP Sap. The band rose to international fame in the early 1990s during Seattle's grunge movement, and is known for its distinctive vocal style and the harmonized vocals between Cantrell and Layne Staley (and later Cantrell and William DuVall). He is best known as the founder, lead guitarist, co-lead vocalist, and main songwriter of rock band Alice in Chains. (born March 18, 1966) is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter.