Two icons of rock have joined forces to create a new rock bar and performance space in Las Vegas.

Alice in Chains guitarist/vocalist Jerry Cantrell and Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian plan to launch the venue, Dead Man’s Hand, in November.

The bar will feature none of the trendy décor, snobby attitude and outlandish prices so prevalent in Vegas. Instead, Dead Man’s Hand will favor grit over glitz, providing customers great music, cool atmosphere and affordable drinks all year long.

“We want this to be a place that we would want to hang out in,” Ian says. “There’s a huge segment of the music audience that likes to go out but doesn’t want to go to places that only play Lil Wayne and Lady Gaga and charge $750 for a bottle of vodka. We want to be the opposite of that.”

“I always wanted to have a cool joint with some friends that would be a great place to go at night,” adds Cantrell, “It’s close to Los Angeles, and a lot of cool bands and people hit Vegas. We wanted to make a fun place for everybody to hang.”

Cantrell came up with the name Dead Man’s Hand, and as soon as he mentioned it to Ian, the guitarist was sold. The two logos for the club — a skeleton’s hand holding the dead man’s poker hand atop a flaming Ace of Spades, and a skull-embossed Ace of Spades atop the dead man’s hand — were designed by award-winning artist Shepard Fairey from Obey. “Scott and I are both into poker, and the dead man’s hand — two aces and two eights — was the hand Wild Bill Hickok was supposedly holding when he was shot,” Cantrell says. “And we both really like the show ‘Deadwood,’ so it seemed like a cool name.”

Dead Man’s Hand will feature a long, semicircle-shaped bar that seats 30, a stage, and a raised back area featuring booths directly across from the stage. Total capacity is about 200. The bar will showcase DJs and live music, with a top-notch PA, state-of-the art lighting system and a backline donated by Ian and Cantrell’s respective gear companies.

There will even be a house band, featuring the duo.