DOKKEN: More 'Lightning Strikes Again' Samples Posted Online
January 23, 2008Audio samples of three tracks from the forthcoming DOKKEN album, "Lightning Strikes Again" — "Heart Of Stone", "Point Of No Return" and "Standing On The Outside" — are available on the band's revamped web site. The site also contains song samples from Don Dokken's solo album, "Solitary" ("Green", "Everything" and "Never Forget"),which will be available exclusively at Don'a appearances as the opening act for QUEENSRŸCHE. The tour begins tonight in Colorado.
A brand new DOKKEN track, entitled "Oasis", is available for streaming on the band's MySpace page. The song comes off "Lightning Strikes Again", which will be released this spring via Rhino Records in the U.S. and Frontiers Records in Europe. The follow-up to 2004's "Hell to Pay" will feature the lineup of Don Dokken (vocals),Jon Levin (guitar, ex-WARLOCK),Barry Sparks (bass, TED NUGENT, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN, MSG) and Mick Brown (drums).
"It will be a very heavy progressive record," Dokken told Deb Rao of KNAC.COM earlier in the year. "Just some cool songs, some dark songs, and some medium tempo. Some of the best work that I have done in years. I am not looking for any kind of sound. I am just writing whatever spiritual inspiration comes to me. You could say the sound is very heavy, like 'Kiss of Death'."
Rhino Records in March 2007 revisited DOKKEN's early days with a pair of releases packed with previously unissued material. The first release, a CD entitled "From Conception: Live 1981", captures DOKKEN in an early, previously unseen concert recorded before the band signed with Elektra. The second release is the DVD debut of the band's first home video, the platinum-certified "Unchain the Night", which is expanded with unreleased videos and new extended interviews with the band.
DOKKEN performing "Unchain the Night" at Skagerock 2007:
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