How Motley Crue Made ‘Dogs of War’: Exclusive Interview

Motley
Crue
frontman

Vince
Neil
has
a
simple
declaration
for
the
critics
who
have
tried
to
write
them
off
for
decades: “You
can’t
kill
us!”

Neil
and
bassist

Nikki
Sixx
recently
spoke
to
UCR’s
Matt
Wardlaw
about
Motley
Crue’s
new
single, “Dogs
of
War,”
out
today.
You
can
listen
to
part
of
the
conversation
below.

The
defiant track marks
the
first
Motley
Crue
song since
2019
and
their
first
with
guitarist

John
5,
who

replaced founding
guitarist

Mick
Mars
in
2022.
The song
switches between
grinding
alt-metal
riffs
and
eerie,
melodic
verses, and
in
the
chorus
Neil
sings, “Don’t
let
them
take
the
crown
/ Don’t
lеt
those
bastards
get
you
down.”

“It
was
purposeful
to
leave
that
verse
wide
open
for Vince,”
Sixx
says. “I
like
it
because when
people
hear
it
the
first
time,
it’s
really
heavy
and
then
it
opens
up.
It’s
a
part
of
like,
for
the
band,
it’s
always
just
[fun
to]
find
something
new
to
do.”

The animated “Dogs
of
War”
video,
which
is
littered
with
Motley
Crue Easter
eggs,
shows
the
band
dying
in
a
plane
crash
and
coming
back
as
zombies
to
fight
off
various
creatures,
including
the
titular
dogs
of
war. “You
can
saw
John
in
half
and
he’s
still
gonna
play
the
guitar,”
Neil
quips.

“The
whole
fun
thing
is
that
in
our
life,
in
general,
it
seems
like
everyone’s
always
been
trying
to
kill
us,
kill
our
career,
and
so
it’s
fun
in
the
video
that
you
can’t
kill
us”
Sixx
muses. “Even
when
we
die,
we
end
up
snorting
our
own
ashes
and
coming
back.”