[SMITH/KOTZEN]: New album out in March

 Today the single White Noise is out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pABdwOwpjGI Adrian and Richie have announced that the new album will be released on 07/03/2025. The album contains 10 tracks. The video was shot at Green Power Studios, Burbank, California on 22 July 2024.

Produced by Smith and Kotzen themselves with mixing by studio supremo Jay Ruston, it was recorded at The House in Los Angeles not far from where the duo first met and a friendship and an epic collaboration was born. (official website)

1) Muddy Water

2) White Noise

3) Black Light

4) Darkside

5) Life Unchained

6) Blindsided

7) Wraith

8) Heavy Weather

9) Outlaw

10) Beyond The Pale

Adrian Smith comments: “The song is about the rise of social media, how people get addicted to it, the power of it and how we get bombarded with it 24/7.” (official website)

“It was actually a riff Adrian brought in,” adds Richie Kotzen, “I then immediately started improvising the melody and the lyric that became the chorus. It had another working title, completely different to what it ended up being and we kind of came up on the spot with that call and answer in the chorus that turned into ‘White Noise’.” (official website)

LYRICS

Late in the evening

I'm watching my feed

I'm filling my eyes with nothing but greed

Up in the morning

My eyes are all red

Turn on the news

Somehow we ain’t dead

Yea the frequency cracking

Drives me out of my head

Loosely distracted by all they said

These people wearing balls and chains

While I’m wearing justice change

So can you hear me through the white noise?

Is my message getting through?

Ahhh, yea, yea...

Are you gonna make the right choice?

Time to make up your mind before it happens to you

They wanna close my spirit, kill my joy

Can you hear me through the white noise?

Yea I’m hearing oh

I wanna drink my jack bring back my poise

Is my message getting through?

Yea I hear ya through the white noise

Out in the ether

Somewhere in time

Watching my city

Succumb to the crime

There’s revolution

Conspiracy’s rife

Take over my dreams

Taking over my life

Can you hear me through the white noise?

Is my message getting through?

Oh I’m hearing you clear

Are you gonna make the right choice?

Time to make up your mind before it happens to you

Oh close my spirit kill my joy

Can you hear me through the white noise?

Yea I’m hearing you well

I wanna drink my jack bring back my poise

Is my message getting through?

Yea yea I can hear ya through the white noise

Ahhhh, can you hear me through the white noise?

Is my message getting through?

Oh are you gonna make the right choice

Time to make up your mind before it happens to you

Oh you wanna close my spirit kill my joy

Can you hear me through the white noise?

Because I’m talking to you

I’m gonna drink my jack bring back my poise

Is my message getting through?

Yea I can hear you through the white noise