New Mötley Moved to New Date
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Hide the girls, girls, girls, Mötley Crüe is heading back to the streets.
The '80s headbangers will kickstart their much-ballyhooed reunion with the June 24 release of Saints of Los Angeles, the first studio album featuring the four original members in more than a decade.
The Crüe—frontman Vince Neil, guitarist Mick Mars, bassist Nikki Sixx and drummer Tommy Lee—was initially planning to drop the disc June 17. But after joining together for a brief set at a recent press conference, the quartet opted to return to the studio to record one more track, "Goin' Out Swingin'," pushing the street date back by a week.
Per rep Tiffany Youhanna, the new batch of material draws inspiration from the band's best-selling 2001 memoir, The Dirt.
"Lyrically, the songs are in sync with The Dirt, and it's the first album of the whole band in over a decade," she told E! News. "They were overwhelmed by the response they got from the crowd [at the April press conference]...that they just felt they wanted to make it the absolute best they could. So after talking about it, they had an idea for another song and added one more."
Added Sixx: "We pushed back the release one week so that we could get it onto the album—it now has 13 tracks. It’s the ultimate song to end the record with and begin the new chapter of our career."
The band's last joint album was 1997's Generation Swine. Lee was not part of the 2000 tank job, New Tattoo.
Last month, the hell-raising rockers released the the title cut, "The Saints of Los Angeles," as a single and downloadable track for the Rock Band videogame. They also unveiled a summer road show in the vein of Ozzy Osbourne's Ozzfest.
Crüe Fest will see the band sharing a bill with Papa Roach, Buckcherry, Trapt and the bassist's side project, Sixx: A.M. It kicks off July 1 in West Palm Beach, Fla., and will play over 40 dates before wrapping up Aug. 31 in Pittsburgh.
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