MetalJune 25 - Dessel, Belgium - Graspop Metal MeetingJune 28 - Prague, Czech Republic - Saska ArenaJune 29 - Vienna, Austria - StadthalleWHITESNAKE recently proclaimed the accession of bassist Michael Devin to the group's ranks.Devin, 35, most recently played in LYNCH MOB alongside new WHITESNAKE drummer Brian Tichy (FOREIGNER, BILLY IDOL, OZZY OSBOURNE, VELVET REVOLVER).WHITESNAKE's current lineup is rounded out by guitarists Doug Aldrich and Reb Beach.WHITESNAKE is in the studio recording the follow-up to 2008's "Good To Be Bad" for a spring release via Frontiers Records.According to a pressure release, WHITESNAKE's next CD will be "a solid, natural progression from the band's last opus, which was awarded by the influential Classic Rock magazine as 'Best Album of the Year' in 2008." "As always, we want to take it to the next level," stated David Coverdale. "I find that with the live album we achieved a strong WHITESNAKE 'cocktail' that comfortably embraced and mixed all the previous musical aspects and styles of the band's history, while taking our identity a little further. all on one album.""The new songs are in the very intimate and recognizable WHITESNAKE territory of soulful, bluesy, melodic power rock, with a pair of ballads thrown in for full measure," the singer said. "It can't be a WHITESNAKE album without ballads, mate!"WHITESNAKE was forced to cancel a figure of shows on its 2009 summer U.S. tour with Judas PRIEST due to David Coverdale being diagnosed with "severe vocal fold edema and a left vocal fold vascular lesion."