Def Leppard has unveiled the second single off their upcoming Drastic Symphonies orchestral album, a reworked model of the High 10 ballad “Hysteria.”
You’ll be able to watch the video under.
The rebooted “Hysteria” follows Drastic Symphonies‘ lead single “Animal,” which the band launched in March. The 15-track album options reconstructed variations of lots of Def Leppard’s best-known hits, combining the audio from the unique tapes with new performances from the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
The LP additionally options newly recorded vocals and guitars, with singer Joe Elliott duetting along with his youthful self at a number of factors.
“Def Leppard has at all times loved veering off the anticipated path — working with the likes of Tim McGraw, Taylor Swift and Alison Krauss, for instance,” Elliott mentioned in a earlier assertion. “So when the supply to revisit a few of our again catalog with the Royal Philharmonic was introduced to us, to a person all of us jumped at it. … Though we’re removed from the primary band to ever do that, working immediately with an orchestra at Abbey Street on a few of our extra orchestrated songs appeared too good of a possibility to cross up.”
Guitarist Phil Collen added, “We did not simply need an orchestra plonked over our earlier recordings. We determined to create one thing particular the place we might have one thing basic, however current it in a brand-new method.” That course of included “recording new components, remixing earlier sounds, taking a few of our devices out so the orchestra might breathe and actually making a brand new album.”
Drastic Symphonies follows 2022’s Diamond Star Halos, Def Leppard’s twelfth album of new materials. The orchestral assortment is offered to preorder now in CD, vinyl, restricted coloration vinyl, image disc, CD/Blu-ray and digital codecs.
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