{"id":5261,"date":"2013-03-07T09:10:32","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T17:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/?p=5261"},"modified":"2013-03-07T09:10:32","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T17:10:32","slug":"whitesnake-guitarist-doug-aldrichs-original-band-burning-rain-to-release-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/2013\/03\/07\/whitesnake-guitarist-doug-aldrichs-original-band-burning-rain-to-release-new-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Whitesnake Guitarist Doug Aldrich&#8217;s Original Band Burning Rain To Release New Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/burningrain1_small.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[5261]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5263\" title=\"burningrain1_small\" src=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/burningrain1_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/burningrain1_small.jpg 600w, http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/burningrain1_small-300x195.jpg 300w, http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/burningrain1_small-461x300.jpg 461w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>Frontiers Records is pleased to announce the release of bluesy hard rockers <em>Burning<\/em> <em>Rain<\/em>&#8216;s third studio album, EPIC OBSESSION, on May 21<sup>st<\/sup> in North America.\u00a0 <em>Burning Rain<\/em> was founded by current Whitesnake axeman Doug Aldrich together with singer Keith St. John (ex-Montrose). The line-up for the new album\u00a0is rounded out by Sean McNabb on bass (ex-Quiet Riot, Dokken, House of Lords) and Mat Starr on drums (Ace Frehley). EPIC OBSESSION comes after a long hiatus from the release of the band&#8217;s second album, PLEASURE TO BURN, in 2000.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Of EPIC OBSESSION, Aldrich commented, &#8220;I think we have a good batch of songs that will stand up. It&#8217;s a melodic blues rock approach to the sound.\u00a0 It&#8217;s really the only thing I have done outside of Whitenake in the last ten years.&#8221;\u00a0 Frontiers Records will be also be reissuing the long out-of-print first two albums from <em>Burning Rain<\/em>, the self-titled debut (released in 1999) and the aforementioned PLEASURE TO BURN. Both albums will be repackaged and remastered and will contain two added bonus tracks to each respective album.\u00a0 <em>Burning Rain<\/em>&#8216;s previous efforts received great acclaim in Japan and the UK prior to Aldrich being tapped as guitarist for Whitesnake in 2002, with <em>Melodic Rock.com<\/em> declaring, &#8220;Great quality song writing&#8230;fantastic production that rivals any others out there.\u00a0 For fans of classic blues influenced hard rock there will be few albums to rival this record&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/burningrain2.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[5261]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5262\" title=\"The Body\" src=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/burningrain2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/burningrain2.jpg 600w, http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/burningrain2-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/burningrain2-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><strong>EPIC OBSESSION track listing:<\/strong><br \/>\n1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sweet Little Baby Thing<br \/>\n2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Cure<br \/>\n3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Till You Die<br \/>\n4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Heaven Gets Me By<br \/>\n5.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Pray Out Loud<br \/>\n6.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Our Time Is Gonna Come<br \/>\n7.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Too Hard To Break<br \/>\n8.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 My Lust Your Fate<br \/>\n9.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Made For Your Heart<br \/>\n10.\u00a0 Ride The Monkey<br \/>\n11.\u00a0 Out In The Cold Again<br \/>\n12.\u00a0 When Can I Believe In Love<br \/>\n13.\u00a0 Kashmir*<br \/>\n14.\u00a0 Heaven Gets Me By (acoustic version)*<br \/>\n*bonus tracks<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.burningrain.net\" target=\"_blank\">burningrain.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BurningRain\" target=\"_blank\">facebook.com\/BurningRain<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frontiers Records is pleased to announce the release of bluesy hard rockers Burning Rain&#8216;s third studio album, EPIC OBSESSION, on May 21st in North America.\u00a0 Burning Rain was founded by current Whitesnake axeman Doug Aldrich together with singer Keith St. John (ex-Montrose). The line-up for the new album\u00a0is rounded out by Sean McNabb on bass &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/2013\/03\/07\/whitesnake-guitarist-doug-aldrichs-original-band-burning-rain-to-release-new-album\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Whitesnake Guitarist Doug Aldrich&#8217;s Original Band Burning Rain To Release New Album&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5261"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5261"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5265,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5261\/revisions\/5265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}