To commemorate Great White's 25th anniversary, original members Russell, Mark Kendall (lead guitar), Audie Desbrow (drums), Michael Lardie (guitar, keyboards) and Sean McNabb (bass) have been in studio the last few months writing and recording. The group's new CD, Back to the Rhythm, is being mixed, produced, and engineered by Michael Lardie with all members contributing to the final mix.

"The new songs sound fresh to me — very Great White, but with an approach of what we sound like in a live performance situation," explains Lardie. "Kendall and I are having fun channeling our Stones roots and playing off each other in the Richards/Woods tradition."

With it being the band's anniversary year, Great White is once again ready to rock all summer long. The band will hit the road for summer shows nationwide to support Back to the Rhythm (Shrapnel Records).

The Southern California blues-rock band first took a bite out of the rock scene in 1984 and has since achieved worldwide success, amassing sales of over six million records. They received a Grammy Award nomination for "Best Hard Rock Performance" for the song "Once Bitten, Twice Shy" and earned a double-platinum certification for the album …Twice Shy.

The late '80s were boom years for the band, marked by non-stop touring with some of the biggest bands of the era and playing also in Europe and Japan. Great White recorded two more albums for Capitol — Hooked, which was certified gold, and Psycho City.

Although Capitol issued a "best-of" compilation in 1993, Great White had already left the label to begin work on its next studio release, Sail Away, released on Zoo Records in 1994. Let It Rock followed in 1996.

Great White then signed with Portrait Records, an imprint founded by A&R guru John Kalodner that featured fellow hard rock acts such as RATT. Can't Get There from Here was released in 1999 and is the band's last studio opus thus far.

Shrapnel Records plans to release the newest album at the end of August 2007.