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DEF LEPPARD will launch its new album, “Diamond Star Halos”, on Could 27 through UMe. The follow-up to 2015’s self-titled LP was written by the band over the previous two years and it options 15 tracks, together with the anthemic, stadium-ready singles “Kick” and “Fireplace It Up”, with visitor vocals from Alison Krauss on “This Guitar” and “Lifeless”. The album title references T.REX‘s “Bang A Gong (Get It On)” with nods to T.REX, David Bowie and MOTT THE HOOPLE throughout the album, which mixes the sound of DEF LEPPARD‘s basic spirit with trendy fireplace. The 2LP black vinyl encompasses a black-and-white cowl with colour emblem, packaged in a gatefold sleeve.
“Kick” might be streamed beneath, with “Diamond Star Halos” now accessible for preorder on the DEF LEPPARD web page in a wide range of codecs, together with a deluxe version, two-LP vinyl, digital and extra.
“Diamond Star Halos” observe itemizing:
01. Take What You Need
02. Kick
03. Fireplace It Up
04. This Guitar (feat. Alison Krauss]
05. Sos Emergency
06. Liquid Mud
07. U Rok Mi
08. Goodbye For Good This Time
09. All We Want
10. Open Your Eyes
11. Gimme A Kiss
12. Angels (Can’t Assist You Now)
13. Lifeless (feat. Alison Krauss)
14. Unbreakable
15. From Right here To Eternity
Final June, DEF LEPPARD singer Joe Elliott confirmed to Cleveland.com that he and his bandmates have been buying and selling concepts just about through the pandemic and are “forward of the sport” with respect to the brand new LP’s progress. A month earlier, Joe instructed Obtain competition host Kylie Olsson that “there’s quite a lot of work to be completed” earlier than the completion of the brand new DEF LEPPARD album. “However we now have not let the 12 months go to waste,” he mentioned.
Addressing the truth that it had been greater than six years since DEF LEPPARD final launched album, 2015’s self-titled effort, Joe instructed Obtain: “The trade being what it’s, we’re all conscious of the truth that there’s a component of the media that may’t let go of the truth that data aren’t that essential anymore. And I do know that is a tragic factor to say, however it’s a truth of life. Touring is massively essential — far more than it was while you went out selling data after they had been essential. Particularly for legacy bands or no matter you wanna name ’em. Pay attention, I went to see THE ROLLING STONES in 1989 in case certainly one of them died. That is 1989. They have not had a demise because the Sixties.
“I am conscious of the truth that while you’ve acquired a historical past — whether or not it’s THE EAGLES or FLEETWOOD MAC or any of the bands from the ’80s, like us and [IRON] MAIDEN and whoever else, we have this legacy viewers as properly that wanna see us proceed the journey, should you like,” he continued. “And that is change into far more essential.
“After we completed that [2015] album, we by no means actually considered making one other document till we simply felt the timing was proper,” Elliott defined. “And we at all times simply fall into place. We’re continually writing songs, so relating to piecing songs collectively, it is not like they’re all completely model spanking new, simply written, hot-off-the-press stuff. A few of them are concepts which have been percolating for a 12 months or two with a bit lacking. And also you wait and also you wait and also you wait, after which you could have this epiphany, or one of many different guys goes, ‘Why did not you ask? I’ve acquired a bit that would slot in there excellent.’ So there’s been quite a lot of that happening. However that is a relentless; that is nothing to do with coronavirus. We have been doing it since the ‘Def Leppard’ album got here out, and we’ll proceed to do it, whether or not we launch an album or not. We have got songs in our heads.”
DEF LEPPARD‘s “The Stadium Tour” with MÖTLEY CRÜE, POISON and JOAN JETT & THE BLACKHEARTS was initially scheduled to happen in the summertime of 2020 however ended up being pushed again to 2021, after which to 2022, because of the coronavirus pandemic.
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