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

DEF LEPPARD‘s new single will reportedly receive its world premiere this coming Thursday, March 17 on BBC Radio 2‘s “Zoe Ball Breakfast Current”. The observe is predicted to look on the band’s subsequent studio album, which is titled “Diamond Star Halos”, based mostly on a tweet from the DEF LEPPARD fan dialogue board Def Leppard Rock Brigade. A model new website, www.diamondstarhalos.com, has already been launched, the place the 5 members of DEF LEPPARD appear as psychics. By clicking on each explicit individual icon, followers can hear every one among many musicians predict the long term.

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Ultimate June, DEF LEPPARD singer Joe Elliott confirmed to Cleveland.com that he and his bandmates have been shopping for and promoting ideas nearly by way of the pandemic and are “ahead of the game” with respect to the model new LP’s progress. A month earlier, Joe suggested Receive competitors host Kylie Olsson that “there’s an entire lot of labor to be accomplished” sooner than the completion of the model new DEF LEPPARD album. “Nevertheless now we have not let the yr go to waste,” he talked about.

Addressing the reality that it had been better than six years since DEF LEPPARD closing launched album, 2015’s self-titled effort, Joe suggested Receive: “The commerce being what it’s, we’re all aware of the reality that there’s a part of the media that will’t let go of the reality that knowledge aren’t that obligatory anymore. And I do know that may be a tragic issue to say, nonetheless it’s a actuality of life. Touring is massively obligatory — excess of it was when you went out promoting knowledge as soon as they’ve been obligatory. Notably for legacy bands or regardless of you wanna title ’em. Hear, I went to see THE ROLLING STONES in 1989 in case one among them died. That’s 1989. They haven’t had a demise as a result of the Sixties.

“I’m aware of the reality that when you’ve acquired a historic previous — whether or not 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, now we have obtained this legacy viewers as correctly that wanna see us proceed the journey, whenever you like,” he continued. “And that’s become way more obligatory.

“As soon as we accomplished that [2015] album, we on no account really considered making one different report until we merely felt the timing was correct,” Elliott outlined. “And we on a regular basis merely fall into place. We’re all the time writing songs, so in relation to piecing songs collectively, it’s not like they’re all utterly mannequin spanking new, merely written, hot-off-the-press stuff. Just a few of them are ideas which have been percolating for a yr or two with a bit missing. And likewise you wait and in addition you wait and in addition you wait, after which you’ve got this epiphany, or one among many various guys goes, ‘Why didn’t you ask? I’ve acquired a bit that may slot in there wonderful.’ So there’s been an entire lot of that occuring. Nevertheless that may be a relentless; that’s nothing to do with coronavirus. We now have been doing it since the ‘Def Leppard’ album obtained right here out, and we’re going to proceed to do it, whether or not or not we launch an album or not. We now have obtained songs in our heads.”

DEF LEPPARD‘s “The Stadium Tour” with MÖTLEY CRÜE, POISON and JOAN JETT & THE BLACKHEARTS was initially scheduled to occur within the summertime of 2020 nevertheless ended up being pushed once more to 2021, after which to 2022, due to the coronavirus pandemic.