Another tease...

VAN HALEN: The Teasing Continues

Van Halen have released snippets of two more songs from their new album A Different Kind of Truth -- "She's the Woman" and "The Trouble With Never." This brings the total of sneak peeks to six. "The Trouble With Never" -- like "Stay Frosty" and "China Town" -- is new and not taken from earlier songs, as was the case with "Tattoo" and "Blood and Fire." A version of "She's the Woman" was recorded as a demo in the '70s but never released.

David Lee Roth says the re-worked songs are "material that Eddie Van Halen and I generated, literally, in 1975, 1976 and 1977. Usually fellas in our weight division will kind of gamely -- or ironically, wink, wink -- try to hail back to it [but] keep a safe, mature distance from it."

But the new album isn't doing anything for former VH singer Sammy Hagar, who says, "What I've heard so far, I wasn't impressed with at all... I think in [my band] Chickenfoot, we've raised the bar a little bit on what a four-piece rock band can do, and I think they chose to take the easy route and take some of their old stuff and re-record it instead of writing new songs... I don't think the fans are going to be happy with it... To me, it...kind of says, 'We don't have anything, we're not a band anymore, we're not creative.'"

A Different Kind of Truth will be in stores next Tuesday.