Nikki Sixx, Tommy Lee, John 5, and Vince Neil of MÖTLEY CRÜE recently talked with Eddie Trunk on SiriusXM‘s Trunk Nation. In their conversation, the band discussed their upcoming album plans, their collaboration over the past five years, and working on new singles such as “Dogs Of War” and others.
When speaking about the plans of potentially releasing new album, Lee said: “I think we just were like, you know, John being in the band and all the new energy that he’s brought, we were like just inspired to make something, let’s make some new music. Like, you know, I don’t think that we ever think that far ahead, you know, we’re like, ‘Let’s just make some new s**t.'”
Sixx added: “It’s true. We didn’t think that far ahead and being, you know, in a band and especially a band that’s been around as long as we’ve been, I feel personally, totally free as an artist to call Tommy or John or Vince at any point and say, ‘I had this weird idea,’ and it’s always the same answer. Let’s get together. Or if anybody has an idea, it’s about get together. But what we don’t do is go, here’s the next 24 month plan to roll out the record. And I think that it would negate where we’re at spiritually. Where we’re at spiritually is living in the moment. So if Tommy came up with some crazy thing with John tomorrow, we’d probably, yeah. I mean, you know, you think about stuff like that, you know, what else do I have to say or do? But we don’t have to say we’re gonna do a record, but we may.”
Discussing latest single “Dogs Of War” and other two other unreleased tracks, Sixx said: “We were in, was it South America or Europe? Everyone was at the pool. And I read this article on cancel culture. And part of my process is reactionary to things I read or feel. And I was writing some, and I showed Tommy and it was very ‘Shout at the Devil’. Tommy‘s like, ‘We gotta put something together with that.’ And we started goofing around backstage, that song’s called ‘Canceled’. And we went into the studio to demo it. And Tommy was like, ‘I love this’. We really like REFUSED and obviously RAGE. Tommy had this kind of idea and kept pushing John and John came up with the riff. And we went home, we were there to do ‘Canceled’. But we ended up with this, this new idea.
“And then I went home and was watching The Handmaid’s Tale. And there was a line in the movie, it’s a Latin phrase called ‘Don’t Let the B*stards Get You Down.’ And I kinda had one of those streams of conscious moments. I came in, Tommy and John were there, Vince was back in Nashville at the time. And I read it to them and they were like, ‘That’s it.’ And we put it together really quick, sent it to Vince. He put his vocals down and then we sent it to Bob Rock. And he was like, ‘I have to do these songs. I have to do these songs.’ And we’ve been focusing on ‘Dogs of War’, I sometimes forget about ‘Canceled’,’ but it’s got a real kind of AEROSMITH swagger to it, doesn’t it?”
Over a year ago, MÖTLEY CRÜE worked with their longtime producer Bob Rock to record three fresh tracks, among them “Dogs Of War” and a rendition of the BEASTIE BOYS‘ “(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party!).”
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