"Well, the new Def Leppard album is, at this moment in time, just a writing session that lasted the entire month of February," Elliott tells Guitar International during an interview to promote "The Further Adventures Of...", the new release by his side project Down N Outz. "We were hoping, at best, for three or four songs, maybe five. We ended up walking out of there with 12."

"They're all in various stages of undress, if you like," he continued. "There are three songs that I think we could actually release tomorrow. The other nine are anywhere from having 'la-la melodies' to 'we need to record it properly'. But, we've filled them up with songs that will be in the album. We'll probably pick 12 from 16 or something like that. But we've got 12, and I'm going to be working on one of them this evening."

The singer revealed that the band have scheduled another writing session for the project. "We're all coming back to my place the last two weeks of May to do a bit more. It will probably be more writing than recording, because we don't believe we've finished writing yet, even though we've got all those songs on the go," he explains.