The Company of Snakes were an English

English people

The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...

 rock

Rock music

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 band

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 formed in 1998, by former members of the English rock

Rock music

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 band Whitesnake

Whitesnake

Whitesnake are an English rock band, founded in 1978 by David Coverdale after his departure from his previous band, Deep Purple. The band's early material has been compared by critics to Deep Purple, but by the mid 1980s they had moved to a more commercial hard rock style...

 who were also members of The Snakes

The Snakes

The Snakes were a British-Norwegian hard rock band, formed by former Whitesnake members Bernie Marsden and Micky Moody in 1997. The line-up consisted of guitarists Marsden and Moody with Norwegian musicians, vocalist Jørn Lande, bassist Sid Ringsby, who later joined the Norwegian band TNT, and...

. They released two albums before morph

Morph

- Astronomy :* Morphs collaboration, a collaboration that studied the evolution of spiral galaxies using the Magellan and the Hubble Space Telescope- Biology :...

ing into M3 during 2004.

History

The Company of Snakes was formed by former Whitesnake

Whitesnake

Whitesnake are an English rock band, founded in 1978 by David Coverdale after his departure from his previous band, Deep Purple. The band's early material has been compared by critics to Deep Purple, but by the mid 1980s they had moved to a more commercial hard rock style...

 guitarist

Guitarist

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s Bernie Marsden

Bernie Marsden

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 and Micky Moody

Micky Moody

Michael Joseph "Micky" Moody is an English guitarist, and a former member of the rock bands Juicy Lucy and Whitesnake. He was also a founder-member of Snafu. Together with his former Whitesnake colleague Bernie Marsden he founded the Moody Marsden Band, and later, The Snakes...

 after the demise of its predecessor The Snakes

The Snakes

The Snakes were a British-Norwegian hard rock band, formed by former Whitesnake members Bernie Marsden and Micky Moody in 1997. The line-up consisted of guitarists Marsden and Moody with Norwegian musicians, vocalist Jørn Lande, bassist Sid Ringsby, who later joined the Norwegian band TNT, and...

. The band was completed by Black Sabbath

Black Sabbath

Black Sabbath are an English heavy metal band, formed in Aston, Birmingham in 1969 by Ozzy Osbourne , Tony Iommi , Geezer Butler , and Bill Ward . The band has since experienced multiple line-up changes, with Tony Iommi the only constant presence in the band through the years. A total of 22...

 and Whitesnake

Whitesnake

Whitesnake are an English rock band, founded in 1978 by David Coverdale after his departure from his previous band, Deep Purple. The band's early material has been compared by critics to Deep Purple, but by the mid 1980s they had moved to a more commercial hard rock style...

 bassist Neil Murray

Neil Murray (British musician)

Philip Neil Murray is a Scottish bass player, best known for his work in Whitesnake and Black Sabbath.-Early days:Originally a drummer, Murray formed his first band with school friends in 1967 and his musical tastes were heavily influenced by the mid-1960s 'blues boom' bands and musicians,...

, drummer John Lingwood

John Lingwood

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 and vocalist Robert Hart

Robert Hart

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 from Bad Company

Bad Company

Bad Company were an English rock supergroup founded in 1973, consisting of two former Free band members — singer Paul Rodgers and drummer Simon Kirke — as well as Mott the Hoople guitarist Mick Ralphs and King Crimson bassist Boz Burrell. Peter Grant, who, in years prior, was a key component of...

 and later British singer

Singing

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 Gary Barden

Gary Barden

Gary John Barden is an English singer-songwriter, best known for his work with the Michael Schenker Group....

. After adding keyboardist Don Airey

Don Airey

Donald Airey has been the keyboardist in the rock band Deep Purple since 2002, succeeding Jon Lord...

 from Rainbow

Rainbow

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, the band went on tour, playing concert

Concert

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s almost completely consisting of old Whitesnake songs. Singer Barden left the band soon afterwards and was replaced by the Swedish Stefan Berggren. They toured throughout their history and released the live album

Live album

A live album is a recording consisting of material recorded during stage performances using remote recording techniques, commonly contrasted with a studio album...

 Here They Go Again

Here They Go Again

Here They Go Again is the first album released by the English rock band The Company of Snakes. It is compiled of live recordings from concerts at the Wacken Open Air festival in Germany and in the Norwegian city of Trondheim...

: the show was still sung by Barden, but his lead vocals were deleted and replaced in the studio by Berggren (2001). They were joined in Germany

Germany

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, during their promotional tour for this album by Humble Pie

Humble Pie (band)

Humble Pie was a rock band from England, finding success both in the UK and the US. They are remembered for songs such as "Black Coffee" "30 Days in the Hole", "I Don't Need No Doctor", and "Natural Born Bugie"...

, re-formed by Jerry Shirley

Jerry Shirley

Jerry Shirley is an English rock drummer, best known for his work with the rock band Humble Pie and appeared on all their albums...

 and promoting tracks from their album Back on Track

Back on Track (Humble Pie album)

Back on Track is the thirteenth studio album by Humble Pie recorded after Jerry Shirley re-formed Humble Pie in 2001 with a line-up including their original bassist Greg Ridley, guitarist and vocalist Bobby Tench and the new addition of rhythm guitarist Dave "Bucket" Colwell, who wrote or co-wrote...

. The band recorded one studio album Burst The Bubble

Burst the Bubble

Burst the Bubble is the only studio album released by the English rock band The Company of Snakes. Of this album, "Kinda Wish You Would" is the only song that had already been released on the band's previous record, the live album Here They Go Again .-Track listing:# "Ayresome Park" - 0:59#...

(2002) which was recorded after Don Airey

Don Airey

Donald Airey has been the keyboardist in the rock band Deep Purple since 2002, succeeding Jon Lord...

 had left the band. Berggren left soon after Airey's departure and the remaining band members morph

Morph

- Astronomy :* Morphs collaboration, a collaboration that studied the evolution of spiral galaxies using the Magellan and the Hubble Space Telescope- Biology :...

ed into M3.

Discography

• Here They Go Again
  Here They Go Again
  Here They Go Again is the first album released by the English rock band The Company of Snakes. It is compiled of live recordings from concerts at the Wacken Open Air festival in Germany and in the Norwegian city of Trondheim...
  
  SPV (2001)
• Burst the Bubble
  Burst the Bubble
  Burst the Bubble is the only studio album released by the English rock band The Company of Snakes. Of this album, "Kinda Wish You Would" is the only song that had already been released on the band's previous record, the live album Here They Go Again .-Track listing:# "Ayresome Park" - 0:59#...
  
  SPV/STEAMHAMMER (2002)