Nikki Sixx, Tommy Lee and Vince Neil discuss Mötley Crüe's new era and their first single in five years, “Dogs of War.”
A core memory I have involves me, age 10, sitting at my grandparents’ dining room table and drawing pictures of devils in the style of Ed Hardy’s tattoos. I’ve got my headphones on, a record in my Durabrand portable CD player. It’sby Mötley Crüe, gifted to me by my parents on a birthday I no longer remember. But Iremember “Wild Side” flooding my ears and my seventy-something-year-old great aunt throwing a conniption fit about my “satanic art.
While many rock acts from Mötley Crüe’s generation hung up their ingenuity long ago and have settled into an era of being a legacy act recycling the hits of yesteryear, Neil, Lee and Sixx aren’t done kicking up a fuss. They’re looking towards a future where they, now more than 40 years in, still have somethingsaying.
“Dogs of War,” in terms of statement songs, reintroduces Mötley Crüe to audiences of old and new with the same lick of ferocity that’s defined their sound for over four decades. It’s heavy and jacked-up on skyscraping, pungent riffs—courtesy of lead guitarist John 5, whose presence on stage and in the studio has completely transformed the band’s trajectory since Mars’ departure in 2022. “He was what the doctor ordered,” Lee insists. “It was a big injection of life, energy.
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