Def Leppard - 2015 album & UK tour dates
 

Def Leppard are releasing their self-titled new album October 30th 2015 and will tour the UK in December.

http://www.deflepparduk.com/defleppard.jpg

Track list

01 - Let's Go (5:01)
02 - Dangerous (3:26)
03 - Man Enough (3:54)
04 - We Belong (5:06)
05 - Invincible (3:46)
06 - Sea Of Love (4:04)
07 - Energized (3:23)
08 - All Time High (4:19)
09 - Battle Of My Own (2:42)
10 - Broke 'n' Brokenhearted (3:17)
11 - Forever Young (2:21)
12 - Last Dance (3:09)
13 - Wings Of An Angel (4:23)
14 - Blind Faith (5:33)
15 - Last Dance (Demo) [Japan Bonus Track]
Total Time - 54:24

UK Fan Pack bonus tracks:

15 - We Belong (Alternate Vocal Take)
16 - Let's Go (UK Radio Edit)

http://www.deflepparduk.com/2015newsmar140.html

From their official site:

Def Leppard & Whitesnake announce a joint headline UK & Irish arena tour with support from Black Star Riders.

6 December - Dublin (3Arena)
7 December - Belfast (Odyssey)
9 December - Newcastle (Metro Radio Arena)
10 December - Glasgow (SSE Hydro)
12 December - Birmingham (Genting Arena)
13 December - Nottingham (Capital FM Arena)
15 December - Manchester (Arena)
16 December - Cardiff (Motorpoint Arena)
18 December - London (SSE Arena Wembley)
19 December - Sheffield (Motorpoint Arena)

Tickets on sale at 10am on 1st April from LiveNation. Pre-sale & VIP ticketing information coming soon!

That's a smart strategy. While Def Leppard are nowhere near their prime, they're also nowhere near as washed-up as Coverdale. So well played booking him on your tour to make Joe sound good in comparison + selling some extra tickets.

It would appear so, but Leppard have been playing the co-headlining card for 10 years now, and this is their second tour with Whitesnake. The previous one being in 2008.

I am aware that they've been co-headlining, but I'm simply saying that of the well-known bands you want to co-headline with, Whitesnake is perfect, given how poor Coverdale sounds. Really make Def Leppard (who are obviously the real headliners) sound better.

This is a decent bill,and well worth the price of a ticket,bought mine yesterday. As Walleris states Coverdale's vocals are not up to scratch these days but Snake are still worth a watch due to their musicianship.
Many of the old vocalists are struggling these days,my particular fave frontman Paul Stanley from KISS has had vocal issues for quite some time. Sadly time waits for no one,that said we tend to forget that a lot of our musical heroes are nearing pensionable age.

They're touring with Styx and Tesla in the States. This is why I don't bother going to many concerts any more. DL is one of my favorite bands, and I would gladly pay $100 to see them play for 2.5 hours. What I won't do is pay to see them play the same songs I've heard 30 times live previously for 90 minutes, and 2 shitty bands before them.

Joe Elliot sounds better now than he did on the Hysteria tour. No idea what he did, but it works. Brett Michaels, while never having had a great voice, still sounds the same. To my knowledge, he also doesn't smoke like Jon, Axl and Paul Stanley, who all sound like crap.

Then you go down a level to the embarrassing voices of David Lee Roth and Vince Neil.

Hit and Miss with Joe's voice. I have seen good and bad nights with regards his voice that includes recent shows.
Paul Stanley doesnt smoke,never has,40+years of screaming have finally taken their toll.As for Jon and Axl they have both lost their chops.

As for David Lee Roth one wonders if he performs like he does to wind up EVH. The latest Jimy Kimmel performance is hard to watch,sure the band sound ok but Roth drags them down a level.

For some reason I thought Paul smoked.

David Lee Roth, as bad as he sounds, looks even more ridiculous. I was too young to ever see him in his heyday with VH, but now he looks like a fool. He has this big shit-eating grin on his face all the time, and he dances like a tap dancer/burlesque singer. It's painful to watch.

Dave Lee Roth never had a great voice, he was all about the show. His voice was manageable within the VH songs though. Now? Boy is he bad, the band is as tight as ever but Roth is a shambles, his voice, and his vibe is just bad. I am not sure who is going to see Van Halen these days and appreciating the show, all because of Roth.

More on the new album:

Source: http://www.grandforksherald.com/acce...ds-joe-elliott

I searched for a 2015 live video of Van Halen to see it and now I just want to punch the guy.

Tesla are amazing musicians, amazing live and have amazing songs...

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This. It's sad. Even though Roth was always about the show, now his show sucks. In addition to his voice.

I wouldn't call their opening acts shitty bands but yeah, I agree, we want a 2.5 hour DL show, not a 1.5 hour show with only the usual hits.

Yeah, me too. He seems to think he is doing great too.

Def Leppard - 2015 album & UK tour dates
 

Track list confirmed (See first post), plus a very special surprise tomorrow...

New single premier maybe?

14 songs. Nice! I have high hopes on this record.

Yea and a good album length as well. I know it's quality over quantity but considering Songs from the Sparkle Lounge was only about 35 minutes. I hope they're delivering as much as they say they are this time. While Sparkle Lounge had some good songs on there, it wasn't enough to satisfy my thirst for new Leppard music. From the way the band have described it, it sounds like they've gone all-out with this one, and apparently there's no ballads on the album either.

I'm looking forward to it. Sparkle Lounge... I quite enjoyed it as a bridge off of "Yeah!" with the exception of "Nine Lives" I thought "Go" had great lyrics and was insanely catchy, while finding it to be a slower tempo than expected.

I'm hoping they go back to twists and turns with the arrangements of the songs.

The new single: "Let's Go"

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...0150915?page=2

Had a quick listen to it and I was really into it up until the chorus. The broken up "ooh oh oh oh"s kinda killed it for me. Still a bit more excited to hear the rest of the album!

I actually like it a lot.

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Right now: not good, not bad. But I can already feel it growing up on. Digging the sound overall, so I'm still excited by this release :)

If nothing else, it's just exciting to actually hear some new music from them!

That's pretty much my reaction. The chorus doesn't deliver an anthemic Leppard delivery. It is the sound of the track and the main guitar riff that drives it for me.

"Go" should have been the first single last time around. It had the catchy verses and chorus, which this new "Go" song doesn't.

Def Leppard - 2015 album & UK tour dates
 

New album available for preorder on iTunes with "Let's Go" available to purchase.

Amazon UK are also listing a collectors edition with an exclusive bonus track.

The Japanese version will have "Last Dance" Demo as a bonus track, weather that's the same as the UK one is not known yet

It sounds like a One Direction song

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The new song is catchy.
I could do without the riff though - it sounds too much like PSSOM. They could've worked that a bit longer to make it different.

Funny thing about this new single. I follow DL on facebook where they very actively share stuff and a few days back they presented this single. I was paying no attention because I thought it was one of their older songs.
It's not a good idea to call songs: Let It Go (High'n'Dry album), Go (Song From Sparkle Lounge album) and now Let's Go. Maybe Let's Get Rocked could be counted in this cathegory.
I like the song. However it the riff is a ripoff Pour Some Sugar On Me. It's almost the same. I think those two are even more similar than Photograph and Promises.
Personally, I don't like albums without names, I can accept if it is the debut album. But after 30 years? The last album had too long name, this one has no.

I saw them live in May and man I was amazed how they sounded. The playing was spotless and Joe's voice was amazing with all the screaming etc. I'm looking forward to the new album and I hope they'll tour Europe again in 2016.

Yeah and I hope Viv will be ok after his third chemo.

I don't disagree on your point with the song titles at all. It's been on my mind. It's just lazy, uninspired naming.

Unfortunately, now that the song has settled in more and been on repeat, I can't say I'm really a fan other than I stand by liking the production. The lyrics are terrible and lazy. It's all built around "Do you really want to do this now" which is actually cool, but they just didn't work on it nearly enough as far as I'm concerned. To say I like the song is to be forcing it. It's a song that would fit on Adrenalize and that is NOT a compliment. I hate that f**king album with a passion.

Partly because of your point on the song titles and partly because it was the first track on the last album, whenever I listen to "Go" now it particularly rankles me because it is such a superior song in every way. It doesn't sound like any other song. The lyrics are awesome. The verses AND the chorus are very catchy. It should have been the first single and in another dimension, should be the "Go" song that they are releasing as a first single now.

I hope "Let's Go" is not representative of the album as a whole. At this point, between Bon Jovi and Def Leppard, I have to give it to Bon Jovi based on both Saturday Night Gave Me Sunday Morning when paired as first singles. I'd like to ultimately enjoy both albums, but if Def Leppard's album is more "Let's Go" then it's going to sink like stone with me. Meanwhile, I truly do enjoy Burning Bridges as an album without forcing it.

Def Leppard - 2015 album & UK tour dates
 

I totally see the similarities between "Let's Go" and "PSSoM" but I don't think they are quite as alike as "Promises" and "Photograph"

As for the song itself, I'm loving the overall production and I love those chugging palm-muted chords behind the main riff. But for the opening track I think it it should have been a much more uptempo one like "Demolition Man" from Euphoria and should floor the listener in one punch. I'm not keen on it being a single either. Not just because I don't think it's strong enough, it just doesn't work as a single.

I decided to put Songs from the Sparkle Lounge on lately and been really enjoying that. It's been largely forgotten since 2008 whenever I revisit their music along with X as for me there weren't many memorable moments there, but some songs on their are really great. "Go" is a beast of a song and really needed more exposure at the time. "Cruise Control" and "Tomorrow" we're also standouts. I don't mind "Nine Lives" "Love" I always skip. The rest was meh.

I still have high hopes for the new album and hope we don't have to wait eons for the next like we have done with the last two.

I think you hit the nail. At this point I am wanting something more uptempo and in your face just as Demolition Man was. The album has been promised to bring that. Those chugging riffs you refer to do drive the riffs for me to forgive any PSSOM similarities in the riff and do hint at a healthy dose of that elsewhere on the album.

Def Leppard - 2015 album & UK tour dates
 

On the subject of "Let's Go" being similar to past songs, opinions aside, I think it makes sense at this stage to open the album within a more familiar-sounding territory. Being as this is their first album in 7 years, to a lot of people this is probably like a "comeback" album (like Euphoria in some respects) so a classic-sounding Leppard song is probably a safe bet to reel in new fans or older fans who haven't payed attention to them in a long time.

As for the album being self-titled, could NOT care less. It's what's on the self-titled album that counts.

I'm giving a rather muddled opinion/analysis of the new single/album, I admit!

I'm really looking forward to this album, and liked the single. I agree with bleedingpurist, the production in the single is great. You can hear everything really crisp, nothing is overdone, it just sounds awesome.

Joe said they're trying to put a little bit of everything they've ever done in this album, so I think the thought behind the self titled album is, this is Def Leppard. Know what I mean?

What annoys me about the title though, it made it difficult to find on Amazon. Lol.

The riffs in Let's Go and PSSOM are too similar.
The riffs in Promises and Photograph are quite different, the former arpeggiated the chords and the later didn't.

Agreed with you on Demolition Man and Go (from Sparkle Lounge). Those are killer opening tracks (then again, their opening tracks are mostly killer except for Now). I hope the opening track from this album is as good as those.

Oh yea, the main riff is VERY similar. I totally forgot to reference that. I just meant the song as a whole not quite being "PSSoM" part 2. I do like "Now" as it happens but like you say, not exactly a beast of an opener. But then again X wasn't exactly a rockin' album anyway.

https://www.teamrock.com/features/20...-leppard-album

VERY interesting read.

Yikes, sounds like I'm going to hate the first two songs he listed there.
All Night is pure crap, the only blemish in an otherwise excellent album.
Not a Slang fan either.

Some rather positive reviews/quotes about the new album!

http://www.deflepparduk.com/2015newsoct73.html