Aerosmith are releasing their first original song in over a decade, in collaboration with Yungblud.
“My Only Angel” will mark the first non-reissue or vault release from Aerosmith since the 2012 release of Music From Another Dimension!. It does not yet have a release date, but a preview of a recording session shows Yungblud and Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler bridging their generational gap with the ultimate unifier – love.
In the preview, Yungblud and Tyler sing: “Would you cry if I called you my angel / Gotta leave, gotta leave, gotta leave you / One more time.”
The song comes after the rock acts took the stage together at the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards earlier this month, with a collaborative tribute performance for Ozzy Osbourne. They also previously appeared at the ‘Back to the Beginning’ farewell concert that the late musician hosted just weeks before his death in July.
Tyler performed despite last year announcing Aerosmith’s retirement from touring, after he suffered significant damage to his vocal chords. But he returned to the stage earlier this year for a good cause, hosting a Grammy Awards watch party at the Hollywood Palladium through his Janie’s Fund foundation. At the end of the night, he performed six songs with special guests.
The upcoming release follows Yungblud’s latest studio album, Idols, released in June.
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“This album was almost like my last chance,” he told Rolling Stone at the time. “If I hadn’t been sure of what I was making, I don’t think there would’ve been a way back for me. I made a fucking incredible album when I was 19 — 21st Century Liability. I got so much bigger than I ever expected to get. And then the mainstream finds you and you become insecure about things you didn’t know existed.”
Teaming up with Aerosmith also gives the younger rocker a chance to bridge the gap between when rock used to be and what it has morphed into over the years.
“If it sounded like the past, I failed. Fuck that. There are so many pastiche rock bands out there. That’s why rock’s been dead for so long,” he said. “I didn’t want to adhere to a time period… If it felt too specific to this moment, then I failed. And it would cringe me out.”
