The artwork for Diamond Star Halos is art in itself. It is available now in multiple configurations, including a Deluxe Edition, 2-LP Vinyl, Digital formats and more. The album’s first single, “Kick”, was released to widespread critical and commercial acclaim in March 2022.ĭiamond Star Halosmarks the band’s first new work since 2015’s chart-topping self-titled, Def Leppard. Joe and I also had a right natter about working with David Bowie piano player Mike Garson and he promised me that Def Leppard will be back on Irish soil next year He told me it’s a whole new world of recording now and the pandemic actually helped create a great record. I caught up with Joe Elliott in LA the other night for a natter, the band were in the middle of rehearsals for their massive 36 city “The Stadium Tour” with Mötley Crüe, Poison and Joan Jett. Go here for the rescheduled tour dates and more information.Def Leppard have a new album out now, it’s called Diamond Star Halos, it’s their 12 th studio album and is a nod to all things glam rock of the 70’s "And I've been accused, for decades now, of being all very defensive."ĭef Leppard will be back on tour next year with Mötley Crüe, Poison and Joan Jett & the Blackhearts when the twice-postponed 'Stadium Tour' finally gets started Like I said, we've always wanted to be a stand-alone band," Elliott continues. "What came out of us musically had nothing to do with anything else, it was totally us. The hair metal label didn't work because Def Leppard 1.) is British 2.) "never spent any time on Sunset Boulevard" and 3.) had pretty modest hair by the day's standards. The NWOBHM label didn't work because Def Leppard didn't have the aggressive sound of bands like Iron Maiden. '"īut those similarities were coincidental, not conscious, he said. It doesn't make any sense! I'd be the first to admit that with bands like Warrant, 'Cherry Pie' - come on, it sounds like ' Sugar. He continued: "Something happens in Los Angeles while we're living in a freaking windmill in Holland, and we get roped into it. All of a sudden, we disappeared at the end of 1983, and we don't reappear until august '87. "In America, for example, we got lumped into the hair metal thing. "So it's an interesting thing that people always lumped us into ," Elliott said. In a recent conversation with Mitch Lafon and Jeremy White, Elliott notes that what genre Def Leppard was tagged with varied wildly depending on the time and location of the journalist doing it. And just like those bands, Def Leppard has always been focused on songs, not fads. Def Leppard has always been a rock band, with equal reverence for both The Beatles and Led Zeppelin. The band's stylistic ambiguity is a source of pride for frontman Joe Elliott, who notes that over the decades Def Leppard has been lumped in with bands like Iron Maiden on one hand and Warrant on the other.Įlliott says that neither the 'New Wave of British Heavy Metal' nor the 'Hair Metal/Glam Metal' labels have ever satisfied him. While the music industry has tried many times, it's never quite been able to pin Def Leppard down to one particular subgenre.
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