Artist: BLACKTHORNE [GRAHAM BONNET]
Album: AFTERLIFE EXPANDED EDIT. (CD)

Release date: 1993/ 2016
EAN/UPS: 5013929917224
Media type: CD

•    Few bands can be as worthy of the epithet “super-group” as Blackthorne, who released their sole album “Afterlife” in 1993.

•    Featuring Bob Kulick on lead guitar, whose impressive CV included working with Meat Loaf and KISS. Not many singers have a career as lengthy and varied as vocalist Graham Bonnet, replacing Ronnie James Dio in Rainbow for their biggest hits, ‘Since You Been Gone’ and the “Down To Earth” album, Graham also fronted the Michael Schenker Group as well as his own band, Alcatrazz. Jimmy Waldo is probably best known for his keyboards with Alcatrazz, and was previously in the AOR band New England. Blackthorne’s line-up was completed by Quiet Riot’s Frankie Banali on drums, who also enjoyed stints with Billy Thorpe, Billy Idol and WASP.

•    Released at the height of grunge, like many classic rock / hard rock artists of the era, “Afterlife” was a somewhat overlooked classic at the time, though Kerrang! magazine recognized that, “Kulick's six string sting is never in doubt”. Hit Parader magazine stated that, “This is a very good album, filled with stirring guitar solos and gut-wrenching vocals".

•    Featuring ‘Cradle To The Grave’, ‘We Won't Be Forgotten’ and ‘Breaking The Chains’, the original album finished with a re-reading of the Rainbow classic, ‘All Night Long’.This expanded collection now includes three previously unreleased bonus tracks, and liner notes by Malcolm Dome, based on recent interviews with Graham Bonnet and Bob Kulick.

TRACKLIST:

AFTERLIFE (1993)
1.    CRADLE TO THE GRAVE
2.    AFTERLIFE
3.    WE WON’T BE FORGOTTEN
4.    BREAKING THE CHAINS
5.    OVER AND OVER
6.    HARD FEELINGS
7.    BABY YOU'RE THE BLOOD
8.    SEX CRIME
9.    LOVE FROM THE ASHES
10.    ALL NIGHT LONG

BONUS TRACKS
11.    AFTERLIFE (UNPLUGGED - SONY MUSIC TV JAPAN 1993)
12.    WE WON'T BE FORGOTTEN (UNPLUGGED - SONY MUSIC TV JAPAN 1993)
13.    REHEARSAL REEL ("MATES" STUDIO LA DEC 16TH 1993)

PRODUCED BY BOB KULICK
TRACKS 11-13 PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED