Black Country Communion to Release Album ‘BCCIV’

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Black Country Communion (L-R: Joe Bonamassa, Glenn Hughes, Jason Bonham and Derek Sherinian) Photo credit: Neil Zlozower

The all-star band Black Country Communion—vocalist/bassist Glenn Hughes (Deep Purple, Trapeze), drummer Jason Bonham (Led Zeppelin, Foreigner), Derek Sherinian (Dream Theater, Alice Cooper, Billy Idol) and guitarist/vocalist Joe Bonamassa—will release their fourth album, BCCIV, via J&R Adventures on Sept. 22. This is the band’s first studio album since 2013’s Afterglow.

The Pre-order is available now. Go here to order the CD and here for the vinyl (pictured below).

Watch the video for “Collide” below.

Just like its three predecessors, BCCIV was produced by Kevin Shirley (Led Zeppelin, Iron Maiden, Aerosmith, Journey, the Black Crowes). Shirley, who originally had the idea of putting Hughes and Bonamassa in a band after seeing them jamming together onstage in Los Angeles back in November 2009, is described as the group’s unofficial “fifth member” in a press release.

Due to extensive tour and recording schedules for all of the band members’ solo careers, the group only has three live concerts scheduled, with no immediate plans for more. Just announced today, they will play two U.K. shows at the Wolverhampton Civic on Jan. 2, 2018, and at the Eventim Apollo in London on Jan. 4, 2018. BCC will also make a special guest appearance to perform on Bonamassa’s Keeping the Blues Alive at Sea Music Festival, sailing February 26-March 2nd, 2018 (www.bluesaliveatsea.com).

According to the press release, “The initiative for the new album came from Joe Bonamassa, who contacted the band in 2016 to see if they would be up for going back into the studio to write and record a fourth album. Says Joe, ‘I just felt the time was right for Black Country Communion to go back into the studio and write and record a new album. When I contacted Glenn, Derek and Jason, they immediately agreed to give it shot. The timing was right.’”

Black Country Communion’s inception took place when frontman and bass guitarist Hughes and Bonamassa “fused their styles on stage in Los Angeles in November 2009 for an explosive performance at Guitar Center’s King of the Blues event,” the release states. “With the help and guidance of producer Kevin Shirley, they further added to their rock lineage by recruiting drummer Jason Bonham and keyboardist Derek Sherinian. Taking their name from the industrial area in Britain, and the birthplace of both Hughes and Bonham, Black Country Communion released their self-titled debut album in 2010, and with that, unleashed their brand of take-no-prisoners hard rock to a world thirsting for music with substance.”

Watch “Collide” from the new album

Following the release of another two studio albums, 2011’s Black Country Communion 2 and 2012’s Afterglow, plus a live CD released in 2011, Live Over Europe, the band took a hiatus in 2013 and focused on their solo careers.

Now, seven years on from its inception, Bonamassa feels the time is right to bring the original BCC line-up back for album number four. “We had around four months to write this album, and I think the results speak for themselves,” comments Hughes in the announcement. “All four of us wanted to make a record that stood up to the first three albums, however, the new album is more of a progression, as we wanted to be careful not to repeat the previous albums. A lot has happened since we last recorded the Afterglow album in 2013, so, in many ways, the new album shows BCC with a much harder, riffier and bigger and bolder sound.”

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