GREAT WHITE — Mark Kendall (lead guitar), Scott Snyder (bass),Audie Desbrow (drums), Michael Lardie (guitar, keyboards) and Terry Ilous (lead vocals) — has finished mastering its new studio album,“Elation”, for a May 22 North American release (four days earlier in Europe) via Frontiers Records. The 12-song CD will mark GREAT WHITE‘s first effort with Ilous following the band’s split with founding singer Jack Russell.

“This is a new birth of the band,” Desbrow says. “I wanted to call the album ‘Tabula Rasa’, which means rebirth, but we went for ‘Elation’because of the euphoria in the atmosphere. It’s a fresh and healthier start than ever before. I’m like a kid in a candy store.”