Australian Hard Rockers AIRBOURNE Announce New Self Titled Album

Today, AIRBOURNE is announcing their new self-titled album in a truly original manner. See below the band's heartfelt letter to Lemmy, sharing their journey through this album's process and paying homage to their mentor and friend.

The announcement is accompanied by the album's first single, "Alive After Death (Last Plane Out)." The track's new music video is also out now!

Dear Lemmy,

Well, mate, it's been a long time since we've said "g'day" or shared a stage together.

We've never forgotten one of the things you said to us, which was: "No matter what,

stay true to yourselves. Don't worry about all the other bullshit in the music industry.

Make music that your roadies will like. Because they've heard your shit more than

anyone else, if they like it, everyone will love it."

Mate, we did it.

Six years ago, we shut the roller doors to everyone and got to work writing songs for

this record, spending many, many hours, many, many days, weeks, months, and years

writing and writing, throwing things out, starting again, and always sifting for gold.

After about five years of this, we felt that we had a solid bunch of Rock'n'Roll songs

happening. Then, Mutt Lange and Bryan Adams brought in their big guns, and a couple

of those songs we wrote with them have made the record. We wrote a lot with Bryan,

and he was incredibly inspiring, and we learned a lot from him - a true rock 'n' roll

gentleman. At that point, a long-time mate of ours, Vick Wright, flew out to Australia,

and we wrote and wrote and wrote some more with him. He's a rock 'n' roll street

poet, and he taught us a lot as well. We ended up with some real good rockers with

him.

We sent everything to Brian Howes, and he said we have a solid record now, and he

was pumped to work his magic.

Dante from Spinefarm, who has been a real champion all along the way on this record,

gave us the green light to make 'Airbourne.'

We shipped out a ton of gear from our Manchester compound and from all over the

world, loaded it into a semi-tonne truck, and drove it up the Eastern guts of Australia

from Melbourne to Music Farm Studios, hidden in a jungle on the surf coast of

Australia. This