Listen to Billy Idol's snarling new single Cage

Billy Idol Cage video — (Image credit: Billy Idol YouTube)

Billy Idol has shared the title track of his forthcoming EP The Cage.

The British singer-songwriter will release the four-song EP on September 23 via Dark Horse.

Having released an EP titled The Roadside last year, Idol says, "The last EP, we were kind of warming up to this. This EP is a lot more coming at you. Loads more guitar. And that’s a lot of fun.

“We were pretty fired up by the fact that we hadn’t played for a couple of years, and suddenly we were bursting on stage, and it kind of woke us up to what the next EP could be: that it could be a little more sturm und drang, a little more coming at you, a little more rock ‘n’ roll, a little more fuck you!

“Well, a tiny bit of fuck you, anyhow. The bottom line is we had a lot of fun doing it.”

Watching the video below:

Idol is set to tour the UK in October, kicking off at Manchester's AO Arena on October 13.

A music writer since 1993, formerly Editor of Kerrang! and Planet Rock magazine (RIP), Paul Brannigan is a Contributing Editor to Louder. Having previously written books on Lemmy, Dave Grohl (the Sunday Times best-seller This Is A Call) and Metallica (Birth School Metallica Death, co-authored with Ian Winwood), his Eddie Van Halen biography (Eruption in the UK, Unchained in the US) emerged in 2021. He has written for Rolling Stone, Mojo and Q, hung out with Fugazi at Dischord House, flown on Ozzy Osbourne's private jet, played Angus Young's Gibson SG, and interviewed everyone from Aerosmith and Beastie Boys to Young Gods and ZZ Top. Born in the North of Ireland, Brannigan lives in North London and supports The Arsenal.