The touring cycle continued with a US headlining tour in May of 2008, alongside Throwdown .
In an interview with the UK’s Metal Hammer magazine in May 2008, Heafy said that their new album was to have “more thrash influences, more screaming.”
On 25 April 2008, Def Leppard released their first album of new studio material in six years, Songs from the Sparkle Lounge . The album debuted at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 in the US. The first single was entitled “Nine Lives” and featured country singer Tim McGraw ,…
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which was released on April 22, 2008.
Recording started on April 14, 2008.
A third single, “Kiss”, had a limited release in April 2008.
In April 2008 the band announced the upcoming release of a new box set and their participation in the Metal Masters Tour
They supported Disturbed on their Indestructible US Tour from April through May 2008.
The March 28 concert was aired live on the pay-per-view channel WOWOW . During the song “Art of Life” a hologram of Hide (taken from footage of the “Art of Life” performance at the Tokyo Dome in 1993) played alongside the band. Because of technical difficulties, possibly due to the…
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A tour in support of the album began on 27 March 2008 in Greensboro, North Carolina, with Styx and REO Speedwagon .