The scuffed old leather jacket on, a cowl over and in the middle of a furious descent:
The Dutch guitarist and hard rock champion Adrian Vandenberg (Whitesnake, Manic Eden,
Vandenberg’s MoonKings) asked again!
The news is still pretty fresh: Adrian Vandenberg put his band Vandenberg, which was
particularly successful in the 1980s, back on its feet with a completely new line-up.
In addition to the now 65-year-old himself, Ronnie Romero, the singer of Ritchie
Blackmore's Rainbow, as a powerful new front man as well as Randy van der Elsen
(most recently with the NWoBHM band Tank) and drummer Koen Herfst (studio musicians
for Bobby Kimball, Epica and Doro) to the reformed group. The comeback album "2020"
will be released on May 29th of this year on CD, digital and LP with the enclosed
download code by the Mascot Label Group.
Track Premiere is currently celebrating the static video for “Shadows of the Night”,
to see and hear here: https://youtu.be/CZWNvGX9F3E
Adrian Vandenberg - actually: Adrianus van den Berg - played for the Dutch band
Teaser in the late 1970s before founding his own group Vandenberg in 1981. After
three albums ("Vandenberg", "Heading for a Storm", "Alibi") and extensive touring,
the reputation of the former deep purple singer David Coverdale overtook him. He was
looking for a string man for Whitesnake, and Vandenberg was not long in asking. For
Whitesnakes' 1987 debut, he contributed as a session musician to the guitar solo for
the number one hit "Here I Go Again". On the follow-up album “Slip of the Tongue”,
Vandenberg only participated in the songwriting because of an arm injury differently
than initially planned. In 1994 he founded the band Manic Eden together with Rudy Sarzo
and Tommy Aldridge, but he was again involved in the Whitesnake albums "Greatest Hits"
(1994) and "Restless Heart" (1997), as well as in the 1998 Whitesnake farewell tour and
the resulting unplugged live album "Starkers In Tokyo". From 1998 Adrian Vandenberg took
a longer break as a musician. He interrupted her for a short reunion of the band Vandenberg
to promote the release of the double CD “The Definitive Vandenberg” and a live DVD with material
from a 1984 tour of Japan. In 2014 Mascot released the album “Vandenberg’s MoonKings”, followed
in 2017 by “MK II”.
Vandenberg's comeback album “2020” - a festival especially for fans of Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow
during their “Rising” period and Deep Purple in the “Burn” and “Stormbringer” era - includes ten
tracks. Adrian Vandenberg himself describes the material briefly, succinctly and absolutely appropriately
as a testosterone-driven mixture that seamlessly connects to those old times and of course to one's own past.
Bob Marlette (Alice Cooper, Black Sabbath, Marilyn Manson, Rob Zombie) produced the record in Los Angeles,
as guest musicians were bass player Rudy Sarzo (Ozzy Osbourne, Whitesnake) and drummer Brian Tichy (Slash,
Ozzy Osbourne, Foreigner) on some tracks with the party.
Another foretaste of "2020" can be found on YouTube, where the video "Burning Heart" has been available for
some time. This current recording is a remake of the heavy rock ballad of the same name from the 1982 Vandenberg
debut.
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