Blood Runs Cold Def Leppard Hello again. This time around, I'm transcribing Blood Runs Cold by Def Leppard, which is from their 1996 album "Slang". This is probably the best song off that (criminally underrated) album, and was inspired by the life and death of Def Leppard's original guitarist, Steve Clark. ("White Lightning" is another song on the same theme, though the focus there is on drug and alcohol abuse, whereas here it's a plea to a friend with a self-destructive lifesty (guitartabs.cc)