How Motley Crue Produced ‘Dogs of War’

Motley Crue frontman Vince Neil has a fundamental declaration for the critics who have experimented with to publish them off for a extended time: “You are unable to kill us!”

Neil and bassist Nikki Sixx a quick when ago spoke to UCR’s Matt Wardlaw about Motley Crue’s new solitary, “Canine of War,” out now. You can spend consideration to element of the discussion below.

The defiant track marks the 1st Motley Crue song since 2019 and their initially with guitarist John five, who replaced founding guitarist Mick Mars in 2022. The song switches between grinding alt-steel riffs and eerie, melodic verses, and in the refrain Neil sings, “Will not permit them get the crown / Do not lеt these bastards get you down.”

“It was purposeful to leave that verse broad open for Vince,” Sixx states. “I like it because when people hear it the initially time, it seriously is definitely considerable and then it opens up. It seriously is a element of like, for the band, it definitely is commonly just [fun to] find a tiny anything new to do.”

The animated “Pet dogs of War” on-line video, which is littered with Motley Crue Easter eggs, shows the band dying in a plane crash and coming back once more as zombies to battle off different creatures, which consists of the titular pet dogs of war. “You can observed John in 50 % and he is continue to gonna engage in the guitar,” Neil quips.

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“The complete entertaining aspect is that in our existence, in typical, it would look like everyone’s consistently been looking for to get rid of us, kill our occupation, and so it really is entertaining in the film that you can not destroy us” Sixx muses. “Even when we die, we conclude up snorting our have ashes and coming once more.”