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Def Leppard - Don Valley Stadium 1993 (2023)

Posted By: ciklon5
Def Leppard - Don Valley Stadium 1993 (2023)

Def Leppard - Don Valley Stadium 1993 (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 1:44:40 | 746 Mb
Genre: Hard Rock

In many ways, Def Leppard were the definitive hard rock band of the '80s. There were groups that rocked harder, but few captured the spirit of the times quite as well. Emerging in the late '70s as part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, Def Leppard gained a following outside of that scene by toning down their heavy riffs and emphasizing melody. After a couple of strong albums, they were poised for crossover success by the time of 1983's Pyromania, and skillfully used the fledgling MTV network to their advantage. They reached the pinnacle of their career with 1987's blockbuster Hysteria, then had another big hit, 1992's Adrenalize, that defied the mainstream turn toward grunge.

Def Leppard - The Story So Far: The Best Of Def Leppard (2018) {2023, Japanese Limited Edition}

Posted By: popsakov
Def Leppard - The Story So Far: The Best Of Def Leppard (2018) {2023, Japanese Limited Edition}

Def Leppard - The Story So Far: The Best Of Def Leppard (2018) {2023, Japanese Limited Edition}
2CD | EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 1,17 Gb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 388 Mb
Covers Included | 01:19:36 + 01:18:33 | RAR 5% Recovery
Hard Rock, Arena Rock | Universal Music LLC #UICY-80341-2

Like 2005's Rock of Ages: The Definitive Collection, 2018's The Story So Far: The Best of Def Leppard spans 35 songs spread over two discs. Since this is a basic hits collection, that means there is considerable overlap between the two compilations: a grand total of 20 tracks, with the remaining 15 largely dedicated to deep cuts, along with a new cover of Depeche Mode's "Personal Jesus." On the whole, The Story So Far doesn't necessarily best Rock of Ages, but it's not worse, either. The difference between the two compilations is on the margins, with the album cuts on both proving that Def Leppard delivered plenty of excellent music that wasn't always hits.

Def Leppard - Songs From The Sparkle Lounge (2008) {2023, Japanese Limited Edition}

Posted By: popsakov
Def Leppard - Songs From The Sparkle Lounge (2008) {2023, Japanese Limited Edition}

Def Leppard - Songs From The Sparkle Lounge (2008) {2023, Japanese Limited Edition}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 292 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 102 Mb
Covers Included | 00:39:22 | RAR 5% Recovery
Hard Rock, Arena Rock | Universal Music LLC #UICY-80353

Given that Def Leppard sounded so fun and revitalized on their 2006 covers album Yeah!, it was easy to hope that they would try to channel that same kinetic energy into their next set of original material, 2008's Songs from the Sparkle Lounge. And try they do on this tight set of 11 songs, pushing rhythms to the forefront in an attempt to kick up excitement, dipping into a Gary Glitter stomp on "C'mon C'mon," hitting harder than they have in years on the pummeling "Bad Actress," and revving up the guitars on "Hallucinate" so they mimic "Photograph," which is not the only time they allude to previous peaks, as "Only the Good Die Young" shimmers with harmonies straight out of Hysteria and "Nine Lives," a duet with country superstar Tim McGraw (the partnership isn't all that odd, considering Leppard's former producer Mutt Lange went country in the '90s with his wife, Shania Twain), rides a riff that is a kissing cousin to "Pour Some Sugar on Me."

Def Leppard - Yeah! (2006) {2023, Japanese Limited Edition}

Posted By: popsakov
Def Leppard - Yeah! (2006) {2023, Japanese Limited Edition}

Def Leppard - Yeah! (2006) {2023, Japanese Limited Edition}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 366 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 121 Mb
Covers Included | 00:47:48 | RAR 5% Recovery
Hard Rock | Universal Music LLC #UICY-80352

Def Leppard always had a streak of glam running beneath their heavy rock – listen to "Armageddon It" or "Photograph" for proof – so it's no surprise that when the quintet decided to record a covers album in 2006, they devoted it to the '70s glam and hard rock that inspired them to pick up their guitars and play. What does come as a surprise is that the resulting Yeah! is a sheer delight, a roaring rock & roll record that's their best album since Hysteria. Often, cover albums get bogged down in reverence or ambition, as artists either offer interpretations that are straight copies or fussy reinterpretations as they busily try to make a favorite song their own.

Def Leppard - X (2002) {2023, Japanese Limited Edition, Remastered}

Posted By: popsakov
Def Leppard - X (2002) {2023, Japanese Limited Edition, Remastered}

Def Leppard - X (2002) {2023, Japanese Limited Edition, Remastered}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 371 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 119 Mb
Covers Included | 00:47:16 | RAR 5% Recovery
Pop Rock, Hard Rock | Universal Music LLC #UICY-80351

X is the eighth studio album by English rock band Def Leppard, released on 30 July 2002 by Island Records in the US and sister label Mercury worldwide. Much like 1996's Slang, it featured another departure from their signature sound by moving into the pop genre. The album charted at No. 11 on The Billboard 200 and No. 14 on the UK Albums Chart. Most of the album was produced by Pete Woodroffe and the band, with remaining tracks produced by either Marti Frederiksen or Per Aldeheim and Andreas Carlsson.

Def Leppard - Euphoria (1999) {2023, Japanese Limited Edition, Remastered}

Posted By: popsakov
Def Leppard - Euphoria (1999) {2023, Japanese Limited Edition, Remastered}

Def Leppard - Euphoria (1999) {2023, Japanese Limited Edition, Remastered}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 396 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 123 Mb
Covers Included | 00:51:05 | RAR 5% Recovery
Hard Rock, Pop Rock, Arena Rock | Universal Music LLC #UICY-80350

Even though Slang successfully revitalized Def Leppard, it didn't become a huge hit, which was a disappointment, considering that the band adjusted their sound to fit the times. Taking that into account, Def Leppard set out to make a classic Def Leppard album with Slang's successor, Euphoria. And, surprisingly, that's exactly what they've delivered. From the outset, it's clear that Euphoria finds the band returning to the glam-inflected, unabashedly catchy, arena-ready pop-metal that made them stars – and it's also clear that they're not concerned with having a hit, they just want to make a good record.

Def Leppard - Slang (1996) {2023, Japanese Limited Edition, Remastered}

Posted By: popsakov
Def Leppard - Slang (1996) {2023, Japanese Limited Edition, Remastered}

Def Leppard - Slang (1996) {2023, Japanese Limited Edition, Remastered}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 357 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 118 Mb
Covers Included | 00:46:04 | RAR 5% Recovery
Hard Rock, Alternative Rock, Grunge | Universal Music LLC #UICY-80349

After the lackluster performance of Adrenalize, Def Leppard realized it was time to abandon their trademark wall-of-guitars sound. Jettisoning producer Mutt Lange – who, admittedly, was busy producing his wife, country singer Shania Twain – the group stripped its sound to the basics for Slang. There are very few layers-of-guitar effects on the album, just straight, crunching chords. Most notably, Rick Allen has returned to playing acoustic drums after playing an electronic kit for nearly a decade. The change in approach is apparent and welcome – Def Leppard hasn't sounded so immediate since Pyromania. Furthermore, they decided to expand their musical vocabulary slightly, working elements of R&B and funk into the rhythms. Not all of the experiments work, but Def Leppard sound revitalized, particularly when they attack a straightforward rocker. Slang would have been even better if they had come up with a set of hooks that sounded as alive as their performance, but the album is a much-needed return to form for the group.

Def Leppard - Retro Active (1993) {2023, Japanese Limited Edition, Remastered}

Posted By: popsakov
Def Leppard - Retro Active (1993) {2023, Japanese Limited Edition, Remastered}

Def Leppard - Retro Active (1993) {2023, Japanese Limited Edition, Remastered}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 448 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 152 Mb
Covers Included | 01:00:35 | RAR 5% Recovery
Hard Rock | Universal Music LLC #UICY-80348

Retro Active is a collection of outtakes and leftovers spanning Def Leppard's entire career. Kicking off the disc, "Desert Song" and "Fractured Love" are two of its most distinctive tracks, harkening back to the band's early (pre-success) days with their rough power chords. After paying homage to some of their heroes with a set of covers (Sweet's "Action" and Mick Ronson's "Only After Dark"), the band tackles a couple of solid, but hardly groundbreaking ballads – "Two Steps Behind" and "Miss You in a Heartbeat" – before stretching out (with mixed results) on the folky "From the Inside." Taken from the Hysteria sessions, the classy "I Wanna Be Your Hero" is another pleasant surprise, and the band reaches all the way back to the beginning by re-recording their first demo "Ride into the Sun." Overall, this is an interesting release which marks the end of a long chapter in the band's history, following the death of guitarist and guiding force Steve Clark. While casual fans might find it confusing, Leppard fanatics will revel in its diversity and informative liner notes.

Def Leppard - Adrenalize (1992) {2023, Japanese Limited Edition, Remastered}

Posted By: popsakov
Def Leppard - Adrenalize (1992) {2023, Japanese Limited Edition, Remastered}

Def Leppard - Adrenalize (1992) {2023, Japanese Limited Edition, Remastered}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 365 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 116 Mb
Covers Included | 00:45:27 | RAR 5% Recovery
Hard Rock | Universal Music LLC #UICY-80347

Adrenalize is the fifth studio album by English rock band Def Leppard, released on 31 March 1992 through Mercury Records. It is the first album by the band recorded without guitarist Steve Clark, who died in 1991, and the only one recorded as a four-member band. Spawning seven singles, four of them – "Let's Get Rocked", "Make Love Like a Man", "Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad", and "Stand Up (Kick Love into Motion)" – were major hits. "Tear It Down" is a re-recording of a song written during a recording session following the completion of the Hysteria album, and released as B-side for the Hysteria single Women in 1987. The song received radio airplay and was performed by the band live at the 1989 MTV Video Music Awards. "White Lightning" is dedicated to the memory of Clark, who has writing credits on six of the album's 10 tracks.

Def Leppard - Hysteria (1987) {2023, Japanese Limited Edition, Remastered}

Posted By: popsakov
Def Leppard - Hysteria (1987) {2023, Japanese Limited Edition, Remastered}

Def Leppard - Hysteria (1987) {2023, Japanese Limited Edition, Remastered}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 496 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 157 Mb
Covers Included | 01:02:37 | RAR 5% Recovery
Hard Rock | Universal Music LLC #UICY-80346

Where Pyromania had set the standard for polished, catchy pop-metal, Hysteria only upped the ante. Pyromania's slick, layered Mutt Lange production turned into a painstaking obsession with dense sonic detail on Hysteria, with the result that some critics dismissed the record as a stiff, mechanized pop sell-out (perhaps due in part to Rick Allen's new, partially electronic drum kit). But Def Leppard's music had always employed big, anthemic hooks, and few of the pop-metal bands who had hit the charts in the wake of Pyromania could compete with Leppard's sense of craft; certainly none had the pop songwriting savvy to produce seven chart singles from the same album, as the stunningly consistent Hysteria did.

Def Leppard - Pyromania (1983) {2023, Japanese Limited Edition, Remastered}

Posted By: popsakov
Def Leppard - Pyromania (1983) {2023, Japanese Limited Edition, Remastered}

Def Leppard - Pyromania (1983) {2023, Japanese Limited Edition, Remastered}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 336 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 115 Mb
Covers Included | 00:45:11 | RAR 5% Recovery
Hard Rock | Universal Music LLC #UICY-80345

While Def Leppard had obviously wanted to write big-sounding anthems on their previous records, Pyromania was where the band's vision coalesced and gelled into something more. More than ever before, the band's songs on Pyromania are driven by catchy, shiny melodic hooks instead of heavy guitar riffs, although the latter do pop up once in a while. But it wasn't just this newly intensified focus on melody and consistent songwriting (and heavy MTV exposure) that made Pyromania a massive success – and the catalyst for the '80s pop-metal movement. Robert John "Mutt" Lange's buffed-to-a-sheen production – polished drum and guitar sounds, multi-tracked layers of vocal harmonies, a general sanding of any and all musical rough edges, and a perfectionistic attention to detail – set the style for much of the melodic hard rock that followed.

Def Leppard - High 'N' Dry (1981) {2023, Japanese Limited Edition, Remastered}

Posted By: popsakov
Def Leppard - High 'N' Dry (1981) {2023, Japanese Limited Edition, Remastered}

Def Leppard - High 'N' Dry (1981) {2023, Japanese Limited Edition, Remastered}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 323 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 108 Mb
Covers Included | 00:42:14 | RAR 5% Recovery
Hard Rock | Universal Music #UICY-80344

Def Leppard's second album, High 'N' Dry, continues in the vein of the anthemic, working-class hard rock of their debut. While still opting for a controlled musical attack and melodies as big-sounding and stadium-ready as possible, the band opens up its arrangements a bit more on High 'N' Dry, letting the songs breathe and groove while the rhythm section and guitar riffs play off one another. MTV helped break the album in the U.S. with its heavy rotation of the video for the unabashedly dramatic rock ballad "Bringin' on the Heartbreak."

Def Leppard - On Through The Night (1980) {2023, Japanese Limited Edition, Remastered}

Posted By: popsakov
Def Leppard - On Through The Night (1980) {2023, Japanese Limited Edition, Remastered}

Def Leppard - On Through The Night (1980) {2023, Japanese Limited Edition, Remastered}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 312 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 113 Mb
Covers Included | 00:44:04 | RAR 5% Recovery
Hard Rock | Universal Music LLC #UICY-80343

On Through the Night, Def Leppard's debut album, established the band as one of the leading lights of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. While possessing the tight, controlled attack of comrades Judas Priest and Iron Maiden, Def Leppard was uninterested in the fantastic, menacing, and sometimes gothic themes of those bands; instead, On Through the Night is a collection of working-class hard rock anthems informed by the big, glittering hooks of glam rock. It may lack the detailed production and more pop-oriented songwriting of later efforts, but it's also arguably their heaviest album, and some Leppard fans prefer this sound.

Def Leppard - Adrenalize (1992) [2CD Deluxe Edition]

Posted By: gribovar
Def Leppard - Adrenalize (1992) [2CD Deluxe Edition]

Def Leppard - Adrenalize (1992) [2CD Deluxe Edition]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 813 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 262 MB | Covers - 361 MB
Genre: Hard Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Mercury (060075319171(2))

Adrenalize, Def Leppards fifth studio album from 1992 cemented the band as the dominant arena rock band. The album was recorded following the tragic death of guitarist Steve Clark - with Phil Collen recording all guitar parts - and dedicated to his memory. The album featured huge singles such as "Let's Get rocked" and "make Love Like a man" and debuted at no. 1 in both the UK and USA (and went on to sell over 7-million copies worldwide).
The Deluxe Edition features a remastered version of the original album with a bonus disc of rare, live, acoustic and demo versions.

Def Leppard With The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Drastic Symphonies (2023) {Deluxe Edition, Japan}

Posted By: popsakov
Def Leppard With The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Drastic Symphonies (2023) {Deluxe Edition, Japan}

Def Leppard With The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Drastic Symphonies (2023) {Deluxe Edition, Japan}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 614 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 205 Mb
Covers Included | 01:22:04 | RAR 5% Recovery
Hard Rock, Symphonic Rock, Glam Rock | Universal Music Recordings #UICY-80322

Strap yourselves in for the sonic ride of your life. Rock and classical royalty unite on Drastic Symphonies - a brand-new euphoric album featuring Def Leppard’s greatest produced tracks dramatically reimagined, and sounding more exhilarating than ever before, via the band teaming with London’s iconic The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. This album represents a bold new approach to Def Leppard’s most loved songs. Def Leppard have deconstructed and rebuilt not only some of their most well-known tracks, but also some of their hidden gems as well. By and large, they have intertwined the audio from the original tapes and performed them alongside The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, consistently ranked as one of the world's leading orchestras. The album additionally includes new vocals and guitars that culminate in stunningly beautiful symphonic arrangements, which at different points you can hear Joe Elliott duetting with his younger self.