Phil Soussan has released the music video for “The More You Take”, the second single from his upcoming release, Cosmo Fighter Part One, to be released on BraveWords Records on November 13th, 2026.
Phil Soussan discusses the song “The More you Take”:
This is a song that was very much inspired in form and songwriting style by the music that I grew up with in London during the glam-rock era of the ’70’s. The song is obviously about being taken advantage of, be it in work or personally The message is that those that take advantage of us end up only hurting themselves in the process; I wanted to write a song about an experience to which just about all of us could relate!
Cosmo Fighter will be released as a trilogy of three EP’s, Parts One, Two, and Three. Cosmo Fighter is a collection that “plants subtle, haunting questions that linger long after the music fades”. By the final track, the album aims to “clear out the background noise of modern society, leaving a profound, open mental space ready to be repopulated with life’s true harmony.”
Written, performed, produced, and mixed entirely by Phil Soussan, other than a few guest appearances, it was “born from an unexpected moment of silence.” Finding himself off the road and on a rare hiatus, he felt “an aggressive creative pull.”
More about Phil Soussan:
For more than forty years, legendary bassist, songwriter, and producer Phil Soussan has laid the sonic foundation upon which global rock-and-roll royalty has built its towers.
British born singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and performer Phil Soussan has been involved in music since his school years in London, where he excelled studying classical violin and composition. His most notable memory of those days was performing at a private classical concert for HRH Queen Elizabeth II.
Since then from rock and metal, to commercial and mainstream, Phil has worked with some of the biggest names in music and has earned himself a stellar reputation. Named by Mike Varney of Shrapnel Records as “the most underrated bass player in the rock/blues world” he has played with a who’s who of artists. As such he has been the driving force alongside titans such as Ozzy Osbourne, Jimmy Page, Billy Idol, Vince Neil, Johnny Hallyday, Steve Lukather, Edgar Winter, and John Waite.
As a songwriter, he is the master craftsman behind Ozzy Osbourne’s mega-hit “Shot in the Dark”, he co-wrote Vince Neil’s first solo album Exposed, and co-wrote guitarist Steve Lukatherʼs solo album, LUKE. He followed that success by writing and arranging “After You’re Gone”, the opening track for Toto on their Mindfields album, which earned a Grammy nomination.
