Motley Crue frontman Vince Neil has a easy declaration for the critics who’ve tried to write down them off for many years: “You possibly can’t kill us!”
Neil and bassist Nikki Sixx lately spoke to UCR’s Matt Wardlaw about Motley Crue’s new single, “Canines of Warfare,” out right now. You possibly can hearken to a part of the dialog beneath.
The defiant observe marks the primary Motley Crue music since 2019 and their first with guitarist John 5, who changed founding guitarist Mick Mars in 2022. The music switches between grinding alt-metal riffs and eerie, melodic verses, and within the refrain Neil sings, “Do not allow them to take the crown / Do not lеt these bastards get you down.”
“It was purposeful to depart that verse huge open for Vince,” Sixx says. “I prefer it as a result of when folks hear it the primary time, it is actually heavy after which it opens up. It is part of like, for the band, it is all the time simply [fun to] discover one thing new to do.”
The animated “Canines of Warfare” video, which is plagued by Motley Crue Easter eggs, exhibits the band dying in a airplane crash and coming again as zombies to combat off numerous creatures, together with the titular canines of struggle. “You possibly can noticed John in half and he is nonetheless gonna play the guitar,” Neil quips.
“The entire enjoyable factor is that in our life, typically, it looks as if everybody’s all the time been attempting to kill us, kill our profession, and so it is enjoyable within the video you could’t kill us” Sixx muses. “Even once we die, we find yourself snorting our personal ashes and coming again.”
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