Face the Music

Face the Music, released on 22 March 2019 through Frontiers, is the fourth album. After the previous record the band had gone quiet again — Doug Aldrich started Revolution Saints and then joined The Dead Daisies. In 2018 he and Keith St. John restarted the thing for a third time. The rhythm section was new again: Slaughter's Blas Elias on drums and Y&T's Brad Lang on bass. Aldrich says he timed it carefully this time. The last record had landed in the middle of a Whitesnake album process, leaving him unable to promote it properly. The opening “Revolution” reintroduces the band on a fat groove. The advance track was “Midnight Train,” which got a video. “When we were asked what song encompasses the sound of Burning Rain, ‘Midnight Train’ seemed like a good choice,” Aldrich said. “It sounds fresh and heavy, but still sounds like us.” A blues-driven record reaching back to the classic hard rock of the 1970s. This band's reception has been consistently strong in Japan and the UK, and the reason for that shows plainly here too.