Def Leppard is back with new music!
Their brand-new single "Rejoice," arrives ahead of their Las Vegas residency, at Caesars Palace, which launches on February 3, at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace.
"This song's been an amazing journey from concept to conclusion.” Joe Elliott says. “I said to Phil one day, 'I've got this idea for a lyric where the narrator is at absolute rock bottom and wants to rise up to a higher level. Do you have a musical piece that might match with that?' And he said, 'As it happens, yes I do.'"
Guitarist Phil Collen added that the song did come from an older idea.
"I had this riff, this idea for a song a while ago actually, so when Joe came to me I created this drum loop based with a tribal sound and it fit perfectly with this other arrangement I had. I sent it to Joe and it was like magic - he sang straight over the top of it. And that's how the song was formed. Then we gave it to Ronan [McHugh] who'd done a proper drum loop with different sounds. It all started gelling and just sounded like a powerful chant. We love it. It's hard rock for us. It's got a bit more of an 'oomph' than stuff we've been doing for a while. It's kind of magical."
The song is Def Leppard's first new music since their last album, Diamond Star Halos, which came out in 2022.