Bon Jovi is again! The band dropped its sixteenth studio album, Perpetually, on Friday (June 7).
The album comes 4 years after 2020, which was launched, because the title suggests, in 2020. The album peaked at No. 19 on the Billboard 200 albums chart upon its launch.
Frontman Jon Bon Jovi chronicled his tough journey recovering from vocal wire surgical procedure in 2022 within the current Hulu sequence Thank You, Goodnight – The Bon Jovi Story, and the rocker shared with EW that the scary roadblock helped encourage Perpetually. “I went into this surgical procedure and I had a whole lot of time on my palms — all I might actually do was sit round and begin to consider songs,” Bon Jovi advised the publication. “I began to really feel pleasure once more. And we — the collective we, who lived by way of COVID — we’d all come out of that fog, and we have been interacting once more. There was a brand new appreciation for all times. And I used to be having this new appreciation for my physique. And it led to all these songs.”
The 12-track album recorded in seven weeks by Bon Jovi and bandmates keyboardist David Bryan, drummer Tico Torres, bassist Hugh McDonald, guitarist Phil X, percussionist Everett Bradley and rhythm guitarist John Shanks. “Nothing was on delay. It simply flowed,” Bon Jovi stated of the album that options the hovering “Legendary” and talkbox-assisted “Dwelling Proof,” which he wrote in simply two days.
Take heed to Bon Jovi’s Perpetually in full beneath.