Whitesnake revealed that their new studio album “Flesh & Blood” will be released in March 2019 by Frontiers Music Srl and the first single will arrive earlier this year.
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The release follows the announcement of the new world tour of the group that, according to vocalist David Coverdale, will be a “celebration of 40 years of band.”
Coverdale also revealed that the album will be “vibrant and will have all the elements of a Whitesnake album.” The work will mark the first time he writes alongside guitarists Reb Beach and Joel Hoekstra.
Life and Career
Whitesnake are an English hard rock band formed in 1978 by David Coverdale, after his departure from his previous band Deep Purple. Their early material has been compared by critics to the blues rock of Deep Purple, but they slowly began moving toward a more commercially accessible rock style.
By the turn of the decade, the band’s commercial fortunes changed and they released a string of UK top 10 albums, Ready an’ Willing (1980), Come an’ Get It (1981), Saints & Sinners (1982) and Slide It In (1984), the last of which was their first to chart in the US and is certified 2x platinum.
The band’s 1987 self-titled album was their most commercially successful worldwide, and contained two major US hits, “Here I Go Again” and “Is This Love”, reaching number one and two on the Billboard Hot 100. The album went 8 times platinum in the US, and the band’s success saw them nominated for the 1988 Brit Award for Best British Group.
Slip of the Tongue (1989), was also a success, reaching the top 10 in the UK and the US, and received a platinum US certification.[5] The band split up shortly after this release, but had a reunion in 1994, and released a one-off studio album, Restless Heart (1997).
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