The legendary Whitesnake made 2010 a year of rest after a long round of touring. But David Coverdale and the gang plan to pick it up again for 2011 with a tour and some new material. The next album, “Forevermore“, is tentatively scheduled to be released at the end of March 2011 by Frontiers Records.
Regarding the title, Whitesnake singer David Coverdale stated, “Don’t forget, ’tis ONE word. Otherwise it sounds like a bleedin’ Valentine’s Day card, which it ain’t!”
According to a press release, the band’s follow-up to 2008′s “Good To Be Bad” will be “a solid, natural progression from the band’s last opus, which was awarded by the influential Classic Rock magazine as ‘Best Album of the Year’ in 2008.” “As always, we want to take it to the next level,” stated Coverdale. “I feel that with the last album we achieved a strong Whitesnake ‘cocktail’ that comfortably embraced and mixed all the previous musical aspects and styles of the band’s history, while taking our identity a little further… all on one album.”
“The new songs are in the very familiar and recognizable Whitesnake territory of soulful, bluesy, melodic power rock, with a couple of ballads thrown in for good measure,” the singer said. “It can’t be a Whitesnake album without ballads, mate!”
The group recently announced the addition of bassist Michael Devin, who most recently played in Lynch Mob along with new drummer Brian Tichy. The band’s current lineup is rounded out by guitarists Doug Aldrich and Reb Beach.
All keyboard tracks on “Forevermore” were played by Timothy Drury, who left Whitesnake in September in order to “pursue a solo career.”
Whitesnake was forced to cancel a number of shows on its 2009 summer U.S. tour with Judas Priest due to David Coverdale being diagnosed with “severe vocal fold edema and a left vocal fold vascular lesion.”
