Motley Crue’s Tommy Lee Featured On New Smashing Pumpkins Album

Tommy Lee is playing drums on a new album by Smashing Pumpkins, frontman Billy Corgan reveals via a photo update on the band's website.

Corgan says the Motley Crue drummer appears on all nine songs from the forthcoming 'Monuments to an Elegy.' "Here’s a shot from the mission out west," Corgan writes. "Just finished round 1 of tracking drums with Tommy Lee for the new the Smashing Pumpkins album. Shockla-locka-boom."

Corgan is actually at work on two Smashing Pumpkins projects, both set for release in 2015. 'Elegy,' he says, will appear first -- followed by another titled 'Day for Night.' Of the albums' sound, Corgan said back in March, “Think: ‘guitars, guitars, guitars, and more guitars;’ but more so on the epic side of things than say, grossly metallic.”

Corgan and Lee were previously featured in a 2012 documentary titled 'Sunset Strip' focusing on the famous mile-and-a-half section of Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood. Mike Byrne has been Smashing Pumpkins' regular drummer since 2009, replacing original member Jimmy Chamberlin.