Manda Bala – titled after a Portuguese expression that translates literally as "send a bullet" but is more usually used to mean "go for it!" – is an exuberant acoustic number, which may or may not have been released to coincide with Sammy Hagar's 76th birthday. Who knows?   

 

"Dave and I have about 12 or 13 songs in the can for a future record," John 5 told Guitar World in 2012. "And it’s all acoustic. But not strummy, campfire stuff – I’m talking lots of cool, crazy jazz chords, and 50 or 60 overdubbed guitar tracks, with all this harmonising and other weird stuff going on. Dave’s vocals are incredible. He sings his ass off."

 

Other songs to have emerged from the sessions include Somewhere Over The Rainbow Bar and Grill, which Roth released in 2020, Giddy-Up, which came out in May 2021, and Nothing Could Have Stopped Us Back Then Anyway, a tribute to VAN HALEN which was released last year.