RECORDS
RATT Invasion of Your Privacy (Atlantic) On its second full-length effort, the band that last year announced “We intend to conquer the earth” gets ambushed by its own inexperience. It’s nothing more or less than the second-album blues, a case of too much too soon with too little thought about what comes next.
RECORDS
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RATT
Invasion of Your Privacy
(Atlantic)
On its second full-length effort, the band that last year announced “We intend to conquer the earth” gets ambushed by its own inexperience. It’s nothing more or less than the second-album blues, a case of too much too
soon with too little thought about what comes next.
Ratt scored with Out Of The Cellar, its majorlabel debut—it was preceded by an independent release—because it was in the right place at the right time. The market was primed for melodic metal—a seeming contradiction in terms that's worked wonders for the financial status of groups like Def Leppard, Twisted Sister and Motley Crue.
And with Out of the Cellar, Ratt came forth with a pretty healthy dollop of that melodymeets-mayhem stuff, showing that you can in-
deed merge the crunch and grind of heavy metal with basic pop song structures. In other words, you don’t need nine-minute guitar solos or tomes to the devil to get the metalheads off.
So Ratt released its first album and toured. And toured. And toured some more. Three tours total, enough time to get the name out and establish a following.