WHITESNAKE has set “Flesh & Blood” as the tentative title of its long-awaited next album, due in early 2018 via the band’s new deal with the Warner Music Group Worldwide and Rhino Entertainment.
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WHITESNAKE‘s David Coverdale told Ultimate Classic Rock earlier in the year that the band has “never had such an immense amount of positive material” for a new release. “I’ve worked, for the first time as writers, with [WHITESNAKE guitarists] Reb Beach and with Joel Hoekstra,” he said. “Because when Joel came in, we were doing ‘The Purple Album’, of course. And not only do we have great Coverdale/Hoekstra and Coverdale/Beach songs, but we have the three of us combining [as writers].”
He continued: “The songs are fucking excellent. We have eighteen or nineteen extraordinarily positive, potent, juicy classic WHITESNAKE songs, from balls-to-the-wall [rockers] to blues, to epics to ballads. It’s kickass. It’s definitely got me fluffed up.”
WHITESNAKE will celebrate the release of “Flesh & Blood” by embarking on the “Juke Box Heroes Tour” next summer with FOREIGNER and Jason Bonham.
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Coverdale told Ultimate Classic Rock about the upcoming DVD: “It’s fucking fantastic. It’s kickass. To promote it, we’ve put together WHITESNAKE as you’ve never seen them before on a video for ‘Burn’. It is un-fucking-believable. It’s a full-production video. The people at Warners who have seen it, they’re mindblown by it. We worked with a young, hip gunslinger Canadian director called Tyler Bourns. And he’s kick-fucking-ass. He did all of the videos with us on ‘The Purple Album’. He’s the head of our video creative ops and a great guy as well.”