Is MÖTLEY CRÜE Planning On Recording A Studio Album With New Singer?

TMD previously reported that MÖTLEY CRÜE’s bassist Nikki Sixx had originally been planning to go into the studio again with singer Vince Neil to record new Crue music as a follow-up to 2008’s Saints of Los Angeles, however, this was never going to happen once everyone witnessed Neil’s spectacular downfall in 2021, including recording a drunk cameo video, forgetting how to sing old Crue classics and falling off the stage during a solo concert. As the story goes, a new Crue album with Neil was only being used as a decoy to keep the troubled vocalist unaware of his planned ousting after The Stadium Tour ended. Those songs for what was rumored to be titled “Return of The Saints” album have now been apparently scrapped by Sixx.

Sixx understands the pressure is mounting for the Crue to release a “serious” new album, after Def Leppard decimated them on the Stadium Tour, having just dropped a new rocking studio effort themselves. The Crue has only released two studio albums in the past 22 years and only one of those actually included all four original members, Nikki, Vince, Mick and Tommy.

Due to the cat being let out of the bag about Mick Mars being replaced by John 5, which was first reported as confirmed by TMD nearly 2 weeks before any other rock news outlet, now all eyes are on Sixx to see if he does indeed follow through with firing Vince Neil again. Fans will recall Neil was fired by Sixx and the Crue back in 1992 and he was replaced by John Corabi.

The plan was to fire Vince after the Stadium Tour completed, and work on a “serious” new Motley record, however, once the story about Mick being replaced got out, it put Sixx in a difficult spot now, because he will look bad if he does replace the beloved singer. This is why no official decision about Neil’s firing has been made. Sixx knows ticket sales for the Crue’s pending World Tour will be negatively affected if they were to announce two original band members have been replaced in the past 2 weeks.

Word is that the initial songwriting for Sixx’s and Neil’s new Crue album was so horrendous that Neil is currently going around saying that the Crue is only a “touring” band now.

Mick Mars reportedly left the band after being told about the Crue’s secret agenda to cut Neil. He knew that had he not stood up to Sixx and Lee, he would have become powerless in the band.

Everyone knows Sixx is the business genius in the mighty Crue, and when he smells blood in the water, the movers and shakers of the rock biz know that the axe is going to fall.

In a recent interview via Yahoo Entertainment, Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx was asked if the band is planning on writing any new music.

Nikki gave a surprising response and revealed details on the new music.

“Yes, the new music I am writing sounds like the first Motley Crue album.”

As Jeff Giles of Ultimate Classic Rock recalls, “It was early 1992, and Mötley Crüe had just started working on their first album after the mega-success of 1989’s Dr. Feelgood. Unfortunately, Nikki Sixx, Mick Mars and Tommy Lee soon became displeased with Vince Neil’s perceived attitude, and on February 10, they had a band meeting that resulted in Neil getting fired. Four days later, the band released a statement that claimed that Neil had left the Crüe because he wanted to focus on his beloved hobby, car racing.”

By recruiting fresh blood into the lineup, Sixx sees this as an opportunity to reinvigorate the stale Crue, a one-time arena crushing beast that limped out of 36 dates of The Stadium Tour with a lead singer who is addicted to food binging, guzzling down $10,000 bottles of booze and unable to properly sing the band’s songs live, which ultimately forced Tommy Lee and Nikki Sixx to sabotage all of the shows, in one form or another.