Global icons DEF LEPPARD have released their new single ""Rejoice"".
The dynamic track comes ahead of DEF LEPPARD's triumphant return to Las Vegas for their ""Def Leppard: Live at Caesars Palace The Las Vegas Residency"" that kicks off February 3.
""Rejoice"" is available via UMe now on all streaming platforms.
Watch the official lyric video here https://youtu.be/zy2TLLeNgp0.
On the creation of the song, DEF LEPPARD lead singer Joe Elliott shares: ""This song's been an amazing journey from concept to conclusion.
I said to Phil [Collen] one day, 'I've got this idea for a lyric where the narrator is at absolute rock bottom and wants to rise up to a higher level.
Do you have a musical piece that might match with that?' And he said, 'As it happens, yes I do.'" Collen adds: ""I had this riff, this idea for a song a while ago actually, so when Joe came to me I created this drum loop based with a tribal sound and it fit perfectly with this other arrangement I had.
I sent it to Joe and it was like magic — he sang straight over the top of it.
And that's how the song was formed.
Then we gave it to Ronan [McHugh] who'd done a proper drum loop with different sounds.
It all started gelling and just sounded like a powerful chant.
We love it.
It's hard rock for us.
It's got a bit more of an 'oomph' than stuff we've been doing for a while.
It's kind of magical." Fans can expect a brand new electrifying show and hear ""Rejoice"" live alongside classics from DEF LEPPARD's timeless catalog of hits at their Las Vegas residency.
"Def Leppard: Live at Caesars Palace The Las Vegas Residency" runs through February 28, 2026 at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace.
These new shows follow the band's sold-out residency successes in 2019 and 2013.
Last November, DEF LEPPARD drummer Rick Allen told The Sessions Panel that there was ""lots of new music for DEF LEPPARD coming.
I can't really talk about it that much, but the songs that I've been involved with, the songs that I've helped with recording.
There's still quite a lot to do — details, some overdubs, that kind of thing.
But the music is strong.
We are fans of it, so we figure if we are fans of it, then other people are gonna love it." In September 2025, Elliott confirmed that the band was working on its thirteenth studio LP.
He told Planet Rock's Paul Anthony: ""We're working through a new album right now, which won't be out [in 2026], but we may — and probably will — release a new song in time for [the Las] Vegas [residency] and then release another one again for the British tour [in June].
That's the plan that we have right now… So, we're gonna kind of drip feed songs from the album and then it'll [album] come out late '26, early '27 maybe.