Jerry Cantrell - Degradation Trip Volumes 1 & 2 [MP3 320Kbps]

Degradation Trip Volumes 1 & 2 is a double album by Jerry Cantrell, released on 26 November, 2002 on Roadrunner Records. It is an expanded limited edition of Cantrell's Degradation Trip album, which was released approximately five months earlier. All the songs were written long prior to the first release of Degradation Trip; Roadrunner Records, uneasy toward the idea of a double album release, made Cantrell condense it but promised to eventually release of all his material. The track order of the expanded version, which differs from the first, is also presented in Cantrell's originally planned order. Faith No More drummer Mike Bordin and then-Ozzy Osbourne/Black Label Society bassist Robert Trujillo (formerly of Suicidal Tendencies and later of Metallica) contributed to Degradation Trip and would tour with Cantrell in support of it.


AllMusic.com Review: Due to its unfortunate timing -- arriving in stores about two months after the passing of his former bandmate, Layne Staley -- it may be impossible not to view Jerry Cantrell's second solo album, Degradation Trip, without hearing it through the prism of the demise of Alice in Chains and the death of Staley. First of all, the sound is instantly reminiscent of Cantrell's former band because, of course, he was instrumental in creating the slow, brooding minor-key grinds topped with flat vocal harmonies that were the group's stock in trade. Second, if you dig through the lyrics, it's easy to speculate that some of them are about the addiction that sunk Staley. These two qualities are so prominent that some may have a hard time getting around them, but serious listeners and longtime fans will find it much easier to get past the surface and appreciate the album as Cantrell's best record since Dirt. True, it does bear the hallmark of a guitarist who is allowed to indulge his instrumental ideas, with several tracks being as epic as a classic prog rock number, yet this is a good thing since not only are his ideas frequently intriguing, but they are balanced with shorter songs -- cuts that aren't necessarily snappier, but certainly more concise -- giving the record a real sense of momentum, something that's only enhanced by his best, most consistent writing since Dirt. Essentially, this is a more ambitious, focused spin on Alice in Chains' final studio album -- -- which may make it sound a little out of place in 2002, since it is defiantly out of fashion and builds on Alice in Chains' early-'90s sound, but it certainly serves as an effective reminder in a time that's over-run with Alice in Chains clones of how powerful, dramatic, and resonant these hypnotic guitar dirges can be, especially when they're written by somebody at the top of their game.


Tracklist:

Disc one:
01. "Psychotic Break" 4:09
02. "Bargain Basement Howard Hughes" 5:39
03. "Owned" 5:18
04. "Angel Eyes" 4:44
05. "Solitude" 4:01
06. "Mother's Spinning in Her Grave (Glass Dick Jones)" 3:54
07. "Hellbound" 6:46
08. "Spiderbite" 6:38
09. "Pro False Idol" 7:18
10. "Feel the Void" 6:57
11. "Locked On" 5:37
12. "Gone" 5:08

Disc two
01. "Castaway" 4:59
02. "Chemical Tribe" 6:35
03. "What It Takes" 4:44
04. "Dying Inside" 6:26
05. "Siddhartha" 6:02
06. "Hurts Don't It?" (Instrumental) 4:46
07. "She Was My Girl" 3:59
08. "Pig Charmer" 8:11
09. "Anger Rising" 6:14
10. "S.O.S." 5:07
11. "Give It a Name" 4:02
12. "Thanks Anyway" 5:26
13. "31/32" 7:25


Download:

Disc 1:
Degradation.Trip.Disc1.320.part1.rar
Degradation.Trip.Disc1.320.part2.rar

Disc 2:
Degradation.Trip.Disc2.320.part1.rar
Degradation.Trip.Disc2.320.part2.rar