We live in a state of arrested development in this band, singing songs like ' Let's Get Rocked'. " Grunge was very much happening and our stuff was anathema at the time… Personally, I think we could have bolstered the songs with a little more of that Def Lep fairy dust… but instead we went, 'No, let's keep it raw: no backing vocals let's not do that part because it's too melodic let's be more monotone… At least it gave us the chance to grow up a little. "We knew we couldn't make a typical Def Leppard album in the mid-1990s," said Vivian Campbell. We wanted the music to be more personalised and let the character of the individuals to come out," explained Savage. "We'd got so sick of recording the old way. Slang would feature less production in favour of a more organic sound, catalysed by Allen's reversion to a semi-acoustic drum kit. Said Elliott, "There was a period with Mutt where if you came out with anything slightly negative, it was 'Fuck it!' and it was gone!" Collen continued: "We've all got personal things that have happened during the recording of Slang, and we've just ploughed on and some of it has come out on the record."ĭoing without Lange's services, the band changed another habit by recording together, in a townhouse in Marbella, Spain. Though the band says Adrenalize was recorded during a bleaker time, the absence of Mutt Lange (for the first time on a Def Leppard album since 1980) made it possible for the band to show what they were really feeling. It is also the only Def Leppard album that does not feature their recognisable font logo on the album cover, though all its singles still bore the classic logo.īetween the releases of Retro Active and Slang, Def Leppard endured hardships including guitarist Phil Collen's divorce from actress Jacqueline Collen, bassist Rick Savage's battle with Bell's palsy and the death of his father, and the arrests of both drummer Rick Allen and lead singer Joe Elliott for spousal abuse and assault, respectively. It charted at #14 on the Billboard 200 and #5 on the UK Albums Chart. Slang is the first album with new material to feature new guitarist Vivian Campbell (Campbell had previously played on the B-side collection Retro Active in 1993 and on the new song on Vault a year earlier). The album marked a musical departure from their signature sound it was produced by the band with Pete Woodroffe and was their first album since 1980 without involvement by Robert John "Mutt" Lange. Slang is the sixth studio album by English rock band Def Leppard, released on.
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