Nearly two weeks after releasing their brand new song "Just Like 73" (which featured a guest guitar solo by Tom Morello of Rage Against The Machine and Audioslave), Def Leppard guitarist Phil Collen confirmed in a recent interview on SiriusXM's 'Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk' that a thirteenth studio album by the band is in the works and could be released in either 2025 or 2026, rather than another seven-year gap that elapsed between 2015's Def Leppard and 2022's Diamond Star Halos.

When asked if "Just Like 73" is a one-off single or will lead to another album, Collen said: "Oh, it's absolutely the seed of another Def Leppard record. I mean, it was a leftover from the album before, but it was also the start of a new album. So, without a doubt. [Joe and I] write all the time. We send each other things. Sav gets in on there. Just between the three of us, there's just a lot of stuff floating around already. So we've, yeah, got a bunch of stuff. It's really exciting. And it's a great place to be. It's never that thing where, 'Well, we've got to sit down and write an album.' It's, like, 'Wow, I can't wait to play this to the guys and see what the reaction is.' And we keep pushing the boat out even further."

As for a possible release date, he said: "This year would be pushing it, I think this year. But once we kind of get into the groove, I think - yeah. Who knows? Next year [or] early the year after. But you know how these things go. We have these tours and everything, but we've got a new song. So that's really exciting. So that'll be on the go pretty soon."

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