{"id":2222268,"date":"2026-01-05T01:50:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T01:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2222268"},"modified":"2026-01-05T01:50:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T01:50:20","slug":"alex-van-halen-working-on-new-record-with-totos-steve-lukather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/alex-van-halen-working-on-new-record-with-totos-steve-lukather\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Van Halen working on new record with Toto&#8217;s Steve Lukather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Alex Van Halen has revealed that he is working on a new album alongside\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/toto\">Toto<\/a>\u00a0guitarist Steve Lukather.<\/p>\n<p>The legendary rock drummer, who co-founded\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/van-halen\">Van Halen<\/a>\u00a0with his younger brother\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/eddie-van-halen\">Eddie<\/a>\u00a0in 1972,\u00a0appeared on the\u00a0<i>Metal Sticks\u00a0<\/i>podcast\u00a0on Thursday (January 1), hosted by\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/iron-maiden\">Iron Maiden<\/a>\u2019s Nick McBrain, and spoke about his current musical projects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m getting ready to do this record with Lukather and a couple of other people,\u201d Van Halen said. \u201cIt should be exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear whether the album will be a new Van Halen album or a side project. The band have not released a studio record since 2012\u2019s \u2018A Different Kind\u00a0Of\u00a0Truth\u2019, and\u00a0have been inactive since\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/eddie-van-halen-has-died-after-battling-throat-cancer-2773861\">Eddie\u2019s death from complications from throat cancer in 2020 at the age of 65<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Alex Van Halen joins Nicko McBrain, &amp; David Frangioni for the Season Finale of Metal Sticks\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ivRG5gH1uOE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>A report from\u00a0<i>De\u00a0Telegraaf\u00a0<\/i>last year suggested that Alex was working on a collection of unfinished Van Halen songs alongside Lukather, with the drummer saying:\u00a0\u201c[Eddie] and Steve Lukather were\u00a0very good\u00a0friends\u00a0and they often worked together. There is no one who can do this process with me as well as he can\u201d (via\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.guitarworld.com\/artists\/music-releases\/alex-van-halen-new-van-halen-album-steve-lukather\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>Guitar World<\/i><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid Alex say that? Oh, in that case the news is true,\u201d Lukather responded. \u201cEd,\u00a0Alex\u00a0and I were\u00a0very close\u00a0for years. It is true that we worked on it together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alex has said in the past that there are \u201cthree or four\u201d more Van Halen records to be made from the music that is saved in the band\u2019s vaults, telling the\u00a0<i>Talk Is Jericho\u00a0<\/i>podcast (via\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/blabbermouth.net\/news\/alex-van-halen-confirms-he-is-working-on-new-album-with-totos-steve-lukather\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>Blabbermouth<\/i><\/a>):\u00a0\u00a0\u201cThere was some good stuff in there. And you\u00a0have to\u00a0remember, when in the thick of it, sometimes the\u00a0really great\u00a0stuff\u00a0kind of passes\u00a0you by. And\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0not until you revisit it going, \u2018Whoa, I forgot about that. This kicks ass.\u2019 But that takes time. And you\u00a0wanna\u00a0do it right. I\u00a0wanna\u00a0do it right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2024,\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/heres-the-full-six-minute-version-of-alex-and-eddie-van-halens-final-song-unfinished-3805275\">Alex released the full six-minute version of \u2018Unfinished\u2019<\/a>, the final song he wrote with Eddie, as part of the release of the audiobook of Alex\u2019s memoir\u00a0<i>Brothers<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>The public acrimony between Alex and former Van Halen vocalist\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/sammy-hagar\">Sammy Hagar<\/a>, meanwhile, is ongoing, and last year, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/sammy-hagar-claims-alex-van-halen-is-angry-because-im-out-doing-it-and-he-cant-3860426\">Hagar wondered if jealousy was the reason why Alex had not spoken to him for 21 years<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n  if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n  n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n  s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n  'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('consent', 'revoke');\n  fbq('init', '370979561341328');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.nme.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Van Halen has revealed that he is working on a new album alongside\u00a0Toto\u00a0guitarist Steve Lukather. The legendary rock drummer, who co-founded\u00a0Van Halen\u00a0with his younger brother\u00a0Eddie\u00a0in 1972,\u00a0appeared on the\u00a0Metal Sticks\u00a0podcast\u00a0on Thursday (January 1), hosted by\u00a0Iron Maiden\u2019s Nick McBrain, and spoke about his current musical projects. \u201cI\u2019m getting ready to do this record with Lukather and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2222269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[21936,21939],"class_list":["post-2222268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-metal","tag-rock"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Alex-Van-Halen-working-on-new-record-with-Totos-Steve.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2222268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2222270,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222268\/revisions\/2222270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2222269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2222268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2222268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2222268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}