Glam metallic stalwarts Mötley Crüe have simply dropped “Canine of Conflict” — their first tune to characteristic guitarist John 5, who changed longtime guitarist Mick Mars in 2022.
The tune, the rockers’ first music since 2019, is constructed round John 5’s bouncy nu-metal-ish riff and singer Vince Neil’s calls to “do not let these bastards get you down.”
“Canine of Conflict” can also be Mötley Crüe’s first music for brand spanking new label Huge Machine Data, and the trac was recorded with longtime producer Bob Rock.
In a latest interview with Billboard, Neil described the brand new tune as [sounding] “like old fashioned meets new faculty. It is obtained that old fashioned vibe about it, however it’s new music.”
The singer additionally confirmed that “Canine of Conflict” is simply the primary style of extra new music to return: “There’ll undoubtedly be new music out subsequent yr, for certain, ‘trigger we recorded a few different songs, too.
“Possibly we’ll launch a type of by the top of the yr, however I am unable to say. However we wish to maintain placing out new music — not, perhaps, an album however a number of songs right here, a number of songs there, and that is good.”
“We wish to maintain placing out new music, too, so we do not get stagnant,” he continued. “We recorded ‘(You Gotta) Combat for Your Proper (To Social gathering)’ by the Beastie Boys and we recorded this tune, too, and I assumed it turned out fairly good.”
The brand new tune arrived with animated video directed by Nick DenBoer that follows animated variations of Crüe via numerous ranges in an apocalyptic battle. Watch it above through YouTube.
