Def Leppard have shared a carnivalesque music video for his or her lately launched single, “Kick.”
The video options the band taking part in the music for a set of eclectically dressed, Cirque du Soleil-style performers donning feathers, beads, mohawks and extra, resembling one thing like a scene from The Rocky Horror Image Present. On the finish of the video, the band poses stoically in entrance of a carnival marquee studying, “Wall of Demise: The Most Sensational Attraction within the World.”
You possibly can watch the video under.
“Kick” serves as Def Leppard’s first new music in over six years and can seem on their upcoming studio album, Diamond Star Halos, which is slated to reach on Might 27.
Diamond Star Halos, Def Leppard’s first album since 2015’s self-titled LP, harks again to the band’s unique ’70s glam rock influences like David Bowie, Mott the Hoople and T. Rex; the title of the album is itself a reference to a Marc Bolan lyric from “Bang a Gong (Get it On).”
Def Leppard recorded the album over the course of the final two years throughout numerous components of the world, with singer Joe Elliott primarily based in Eire, bassist Rick Savage in England and guitarists Phil Collen, Vivian Campbell and drummer Rick Allen in the USA. A number of visitor performers additionally recorded components for the album, together with Alison Krauss (“This Guitar” and “Lifeless”) and Bowie pianist Mike Garson (“Goodbye for Good This Time” and “Angels [Can’t Help You Now]”).
Diamond Star Halos is presently accessible for preorder. Def Leppard can have an opportunity to advertise the brand new music in individual after they head out on the long-delayed Stadium Tour with Motley Crue, Poison and Joan Jett, which is ready to start on June 16 and conclude on Sept. 9.
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