Eddie’s brother Alex Van Halen confirmed a collaborative album with Toto guitarist Steve Lukather.
Having co-founded Van Halen in 1972 with his younger brother, the legendary rock drummer told the Metal Sticks podcast host Nick McBrain of Iron Maiden about his current musical projects, stating “I’m getting ready to do this record with Lukather and a couple of other people,” Van Halen shared “It should be exciting.”
Inactive since Eddie’s death from throat cancer in 2020 at the age of 65, Van Halen have not released a studio LP since 2012’s A Different Kind Of Truth.
A 2025 report from De Telegraaf suggested Alex was working on a collection of unfinished Van Halen songs alongside Lukather, with the stickman saying that Eddie and Steve Lukather “were very good friends and they often worked together. There is no one who can do this process with me as well as he can.”
Telling the Talk Is Jericho podcast, Alex confirmed “three or four” more Van Halen records to be made from music stored in the band’s vaults, adding “There was some good stuff in there. And you have to remember, when in the thick of it, sometimes the really great stuff kind of passes you by. And it’s not until you revisit it going, ‘Whoa, I forgot about that. This kicks ass.’ ” “But that takes time. And you wanna do it right. I wanna do it right.”
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Author: Saul Goode
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