The Smashing Pumpkin’s latest album seems to be inspired by Motley Crue, according to the band’s leader, Billy Corgan.

During a chat with Loudwire Nights, Corgan said:

“All of a sudden I start talking about Motley Crue, specifically the “Too Fast For Love” and ”Shout at the Devil” albums. In their own crazy minds, they thought they were doing glam. Nikki thought they were doing Sweet and early Bowie, but they couldn’t really do it and they hadn’t really studied the records, so they did the Motley Crue version of Sweet or something.

”And you end up with this beautiful, almost primitive but more visceral version of the thing they were trying to kind of be.

“We couldn’t be Led Zeppelin, but we could kind of do Pumpkins’ fake version of Led Zeppelin or Pumpkins’ fake version of Soundgarden or something.”