Extreme has issued a video for ‘X-Out’, a striking companion to one of the band’s most intense tracks off their Six album.
Aptly being Extreme’s sixth studio album it was released worldwide in the summer of 2023 via earMUSIC, but its sonic ripples are still being felt all around the globe.
Six propelled the band to new heights, driven by standout singles such as ‘Rise’ – Featuring a solo praised by the press as “the guitar solo of the century”, alongside ‘Banshee’ and ‘Other Side Of The Rainbow,’ and supported by a globe-spanning tour across the U.S., Europe, the U.K., India, Japan, and Australia.
Guitarist Nuno Bettencourt also reaffirmed his stature as one of rock’s most commanding players with a historic performance at Ozzy Osbourne’s Back to the Beginning farewell concert. That milestone appearance led to his invitation to serve as music director and guitarist at the 2025 MTV VMAs, where he delivered a powerhouse tribute to Osbourne alongside Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, and Yungblud.
The ‘X-Out ’video amplifies the song’s haunting imagery and themes of faith, meaning and mortality, and Bettencourt said of it: “This song was always sonically cinematic to me. It instantly conjured up images of Mad Max, Dune.”
Singer Gary Cherone added, “The lyric is a lamentation, captured in a nightmare reflecting on the fleeting nature of life and the question of meaning in the face of the inevitable.”
Extreme will be on tour in 2026 with Def Leppard – See Ramzine here for more details.
