Band : Whitesnake
Album title : Foevermore
Label : Frontiers Records
Distributor : Rough Trade Benelux.
Release Date : 25/03/2011
Release : CD

This sexagenarian has just released his 11th studio album with Whitesnake.  While the band itself was formed around 1977, Coverdale’s career started earliest, but he came to fame around 1973, when he became a member of one of the all time great bands Deep Purple, who were looking for a new vocalist after Ian Gillan left the band.

Now we know this man knows how to write a decent song, and has also always managed to find just the right people for his band.  This album shows exactly that.  Good, well performed songs.  And he’s lost few of his vocal abilities, just struggling a bit to reach the higher notes and this despite his respectable age.

As in the past the themes he writes and sings about are mostly the different aspects of love and relations.  Musically this is very good hard rock, and as with all his albums he has not forgotten the ubiquitous ballad.
Doug Aldrich and Reb Beach’s guitars on this album are stunning, putting up a wall of sound.  Besides that production of this album is very crisp.
Although a very strong album, I do miss the real hit singles like on the classic ‘1987’ album, or even the 1982 ‘Saints & Sinners’ album, but you have to give credit to the guy for keeping to produce very good quality music.

90/100

Erik Morren.