‘Here’s To The Losers’ completes Extreme‘s mission to create 12 visual interpretations of each song from their Six album – It’s also a “thank you” gift to fans…just ahead of the USA’s Thanksgiving Day celebrations.
In the video, each band member gives a nod to their respective high schools. The song is dedicated to those who have fallen, but gotten up to try again.
“Get up, you’re not the only, Get up, you’re one of the many, Chin up, there are no excuses, Drink up, here’s to the losers,” go the lyrics and as singer Gary Cherone explained, “It’s as close to an anthem as we’ll get. It just made sense to use this as the closing song on the album.”
‘Here’s to the Losers’ is a joyous singalong that caps Six, an album that found the band globe-spanning tour across the U.S., Europe, the U.K., India, Japan, and Australia.
It follows last month’s 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.
