Video: DEF LEPPARD Members Choose Their Favorite Tracks From New Album

The members of DEF LEPPARD recently spoke to U.K.’s Classic Rock magazine about their favorite songs on the band’s new, self-titled album. Check out the clip below.

“Def Leppard” will arrive on October 30 via earMUSIC. The CD was written and recorded in three separate sessions over the course of the past year and a half.

“Def Leppard” track listing:

01. Let’s Go (5:01)
02. Dangerous (3:26)
03. Man Enough (3:54)
04. We Belong (5:06)
05. Invincible (3:46)
06. Sea Of Love (4:04)
07. Energized (3:23)
08. All Time High (4:19)
09. Battle Of My Own (2:42)
10. Broke ‘N’ Brokenhearted (3:17)
11. Forever Young (2:21)
12. Last Dance (3:09)
13. Wings Of An Angel (4:23)
14. Blind Faith (5:33)

Total running time: 54:24

DEF LEPPARD guitarist Phil Collen told Billboard about the band’s decision to make the new album a self-titled affair: “We started out sitting around, writing all these stupid names down like we normally do, and I said, ‘Why don’t we call it ‘Def Leppard’? ‘Cause who knows if there will be another DEF LEPPARD album, per se, the way the industry is, and the fact that this record actually represents us. It doesn’t represent someone else’s idea, a label or a business agenda or anyone else’s idea of what DEF LEPPARD is. This is actually DEF LEPPARD‘s version of DEF LEPPARD, and it was actually scary. This had never happened before in our career. This is the first time we’ve ever done an album for us, not to please anyone else, hence the title.”

Regarding the songwriting process for “Def Leppard”, Collen said: “It’s the freest, most liberating thing we’ve ever done. It’s the first time we’ve ever done an album where there weren’t any constraints. We didn’t have a record company or an executive at a label going, ‘OK, we need this, we need that’ or ‘OK, the concept of the album is gonna be blah, blah, blah…’ It was the first time we were allowed to be an artist, going back to the [LED] ZEPPELIN, BEATLES, [David] Bowie, [THE ROLLING] STONES thing. When the STONES did ‘Wild Horses’ and ‘Brown Sugar’, they just had some great ideas and were like, ‘Oh shit, we want to go record this,’ so they did. That’s really refreshing. So we pretty much did that and just followed the muse.”