Def Leppard has unveiled the second single off their upcoming Drastic Symphonies orchestral album, a reworked model of the Top 10 ballad “Hysteria.”
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The rebooted “Hysteria” follows Drastic Symphonies‘ lead single “Animal,” which the band launched in March. The 15-track album options reconstructed variations of many 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 together with his youthful self at a number of factors.
“Def Leppard has always enjoyed veering off the expected path — working with the likes of Tim McGraw, Taylor Swift and Alison Krauss, for example,” Elliott mentioned in a earlier assertion. “So when the offer to revisit some of our back catalog with the Royal Philharmonic was presented to us, to a man we all jumped at it. … Although we’re far from the first band to ever do this, working directly with an orchestra at Abbey Road on some of our more orchestrated songs seemed too good of an opportunity to pass up.”
Guitarist Phil Collen added, “We didn’t just want an orchestra plonked over our previous recordings. We decided to create something special where we would have something classic, but present it in a brand-new way.” That course of included “recording new parts, remixing previous sounds, taking some of our instruments out so the orchestra could breathe and literally making a new album.”
Drastic Symphonies follows 2022’s Diamond Star Halos, Def Leppard’s twelfth album of new materials. The orchestral assortment is accessible to preorder now in CD, vinyl, restricted colour vinyl, image disc, CD/Blu-ray and digital codecs.
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