DOKKEN will launch a brand new studio album, “Heaven Comes Down”, in September.

Earlier at present, the Don Dokken-fronted outfit shared a couple of images from the video shoot for the LP’s obvious first single on the in style immersive arts enterprise Meow Wolf in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and it included the next message:

“Hey all people! We simply completed an ideal music video shoot at Meow Wolf‘s Home of Everlasting Return with Director Chris Eyre for our new document popping out in September titled, Heaven Comes Down.

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The title of the brand new DOKKEN album is outwardly to not be confused with the music “When Heaven Comes Down” which initially appeared on the band’s 1984 LP “Tooth And Nail”.

This previous March, DOKKEN bassist Chris McCarvill confirmed to Sam Wall that the band’s long-awaited follow-up to 2012’s “Damaged Bones” album was “completely completed.” The LP will likely be made accessible through Silver Lining Music, the label owned by Thomas Jensen, one of many founders of Germany’s Wacken Open Air pageant.

Relating to what DOKKEN followers can anticipate from the brand new album, Chris mentioned: “I’ve to let you know is Don sounds incredible on it. He sounds nice. I talked to him on the cellphone about this a bunch of occasions, and it was, like, he re-did his vocals thrice. He did not simply cellphone it in; he actually labored laborious on it. And I can truthfully say that, as somebody that — I appreciated DOKKEN rising up and stuff — I am unable to think about any DOKKEN fan being disenchanted by it; I actually cannot. Don actually sounds good on it.”

In 2018, Don instructed “The Traditional Steel Present” that his band’s subsequent album could be “a classic-sounding DOKKEN document” with “straight-ahead, catchy choruses, cool guitar riffs, burning guitar solos” and “good grooves.” He added: “The dilemma is to attempt to do this 30 years later with out simply ripping myself off and regurgitating previous DOKKEN riffs.”

Relating to the musical path of the brand new DOKKEN materials, Don beforehand instructed The Steel Voice: “We’re sort of going retro. I imply, look, you write what you write as a musician — your life modifications, the world modifications, you write what you write. You are influenced by new bands and different music. However I do know the place my bread is buttered so far as the traditional DOKKEN sound, and Jon’s actually good at doing that. And so I mentioned, ‘I believe we must always write a document between the traces of ‘Tooth And Nail’ [1984] and ‘Underneath Lock And Key’ [1985].’ And that is sort of the path I am writing in proper now.”

DOKKEN launched an album referred to as “The Misplaced Songs: 1978-1981” in August 2020 through Silver Lining Music. That includes sleeve artwork by famend U.S. artist Tokyo Hiro (MOTÖRHEAD, MOTLEY CRÜE),the hassle accommodates materials written and recorded by a hungry younger Don Dokken as he embarked upon a journey which began in Southern California and Northern Germany.

DOKKEN‘s traditional lineup of Dokken, guitarist George Lynch, bassist Jeff Pilson and drummer “Wild” Mick Brown accomplished a brief Japanese tour in October 2016, marking the primary time in 21 years the 4 carried out collectively.

A DOKKEN live performance DVD specializing in the band’s reunion tour, “Return To The East Stay (2016)”, was made accessible in 2018.

At a number of the latest DOKKEN reveals, Lynch has been rejoining the band on stage to carry out three of the traditional DOKKEN songs: “Kiss Of Dying”, “When Heaven Comes Down” and “Tooth And Nail”.

Picture credit score: Melvin Zoopers