Def Leppard have released the new video, Behind The Tour 2026, Episode 3: Las Vegas. Watch below.
A message states, “The guys do a charity performance, get a visit from Alice Cooper, work on some new moves for the show and say goodbye to Las Vegas.”
Watch Behind The Tour 2026, Episodes 1, 2 and 3: Las Vegas below:
Def Leppard recently revealed that the band are working on a new album for release in early 2027. Frontman Joe Elliott discussed the upcoming release during an interview with Riff X‘s Metal XS. See video below.
Joe reveals, “It’s a very varied album. It’s a very eclectic record. I think it’s gonna surprise a lot of people, but if I told you too much about it, it wouldn’t be that much of a surprise. But I will say this much, it’s like the direction that Def Leppard has gone in over the last 15 years or so, musically, from the Def Leppard album through Diamond Star Halos and even reworking the Drastic Symphony stuff, people shouldn’t be too surprised that our music works in those environments. When you listen to Drastic Symphonies, things like ‘Switch 625’ end up sounding like a James Bond car chase, which is how we always should have sounded. Doing the piano version of ‘Pour Some Sugar On Me.’ If you can do a song in a different way to the way it’s normally done, you’ve normally got a good song. We always say that if you can campfire a song, the song’s good, no matter which way you’re trying to record it. So we are writing songs tailored to that way of thinking. So there’s big bombastic…. I’m not gonna say ballads, but slower tunes that are very in the vein of Queen or Elton John, because there’s a piano involved. And then there’s other stuff that’s… I think we’ve written the fastest song that we’ve ever recorded, and things in between. So some of it will sound like what you expect, because that’s what we do, but some of it we’ve gone off a tangent and, ‘Okay, yeah, this is gonna be fun. It’s gonna be fun to see how people react to this because it’s not like anything we’ve ever done before.’ And that’s the fun of doing this. We don’t wanna make Pyromania 2. We don’t wanna make Hysteria 2. We’ve done that. We wanna make something different but equally as interesting.”
Joe previously spoke about the upcoming album during an interview with France 24:
“We’re actually recording it. As I speak, somewhere in the world, people are adding their bits to some new songs. We’ve developed a whole new method of recording, which was brought on by COVID. I’ve got a studio at home, and everybody has always gracefully come to my house to record. We’d do a month at a time, and then everybody goes home. But they couldn’t travel, so we ended up recording remotely, and we found it to be exhilarating. Everybody got to be at home with their families, yet still make a record, and we trusted each other that we were writing songs. Everybody just played on everybody else’s bits, and it’s easy to do.
“We don’t all record in one room when we are in the same studio; we do it, the drums and the bass and the guitars and the vocals; it’s all layered. So we’ve been recording while we were in Vegas (for their Caesars Palace Residency). On days off, we had the drums set up in the basement of the theater, and Rick (Allen) played loads of drums on his days off, and they’d do guitars in their hotel rooms, stuff like that. And I sing when I get home. So we’ve got about 17 or 18 songs written; we’ve actually almost got two albums recorded. So we’re still deciding which songs are gonna go on album one, if you like. We’re looking at an early ’27 release.”
On June 12, Def Leppard will release two new editions of Greatest Hits, an album of the band’s biggest songs from their illustrious career.
The newly mastered set is being made available on 1LP, and across two formats: Standard black vinyl and special edition blood red marbled vinyl featuring exclusive 2026 tour edition artwork. The latter is exclusive to the tour.
The album includes some of the bands most iconic tracks from their stellar career.
Tracklisting:
Side One
“Pour Some Sugar On Me”
“Hysteria”
“Photograph”
“Love Bites”
“Animal”
Side Two
“Rock Of Ages”
“When Love and Hate Collide”
“Bringin’ On The Heartbreak”
“Foolin’”
“Armageddon It”
Def Leppard tour the UK and Europe in June and July. This tour features special guests Extreme (unless noted). The tour includes a headline show at the iconic The O2 London and the band’s first show in Paris, France for nearly 30 years. For tickets and further information please see DefLeppard.com.
