DEF LEPPARD To Release ‘Diamond Star Halos’ Album; New Single To Arrive On Thursday

DEF LEPPARD‘s new single will reportedly obtain its world premiere this coming Thursday, March 17 on BBC Radio 2‘s “Zoe Ball Breakfast Present”. The observe is predicted to seem on the band’s subsequent studio album, which is titled “Diamond Star Halos”, based on a tweet from the DEF LEPPARD fan discussion board Def Leppard Rock Brigade. A brand new site, www.diamondstarhalos.com, has already been launched, the place the 5 members of DEF LEPPARD seem as psychics. By clicking on every particular person icon, followers can hear each one of many musicians predict the long run.

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 advised Obtain competition host Kylie Olsson that “there’s a whole lot of work to be completed” earlier than the completion of the brand new DEF LEPPARD album. “However we have now not let the yr 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 advised 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 necessary anymore. And I do know that is a tragic factor to say, nevertheless it’s a reality of life. Touring is massively necessary — far more than it was while you went out selling data once they have been necessary. Particularly for legacy bands or no matter you wanna name ’em. Hear, I went to see THE ROLLING STONES in 1989 in case one in every 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 received 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 got this legacy viewers as properly that wanna see us proceed the journey, when you like,” he continued. “And that is turn out to be far more necessary.

“Once we completed that [2015] album, we by no means actually thought of making one other report till we simply felt the timing was proper,” Elliott defined. “And we all the time simply fall into place. We’re always writing songs, so in relation 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 were percolating for a yr or two with a bit lacking. And also you wait and also you wait and also you wait, after which you have got this epiphany, or one of many different guys goes, ‘Why did not you ask? I’ve received a bit that would slot in there excellent.’ So there’s been a whole 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 are going to 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.