RATT — Infestation (review)

RATT — Infestation album cover Album · 2010 · Glam Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4/5 ·
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I never actually got round to hearing Ratt’s eponymous 1999 album, having felt they’d run their course on the previous Detonator album, released almost ten years earlier in 1990. In truth that album is a lot better than I remember it at the time despite falling considerably short of their highly regarded first three albums. Now they’re back after another enormous gap with their first album for eleven years.

Ratt fans are going to love Infestation. Not only is it I suspect their best album since Dancing Undercover released way back in 1986, it’s actually the equal of anything they’ve ever done.

For the uninitiated Ratt were one of the most successful bands of the eighties glam/hair metal genre fusing metal with immediately catchy pop hooks and doing it better than anybody else including Motley Crue. Infestation could have been released back then, such is it a return to everything that was great about the band. The album is brimming with hooks, great riffs and some typically characteristic Warren De Martini searing and melodic guitar solos. If there’s a difference between Infestation and the likes of Invasion Of Your Privacy then its because it weighs the balance to a slightly harder metal sound against the pop side. Not it has to be said at the expense of a good melody.

The best thing about Infestation is it’s not an album of three or four great tracks and the rest fillers. This album rocks with energy and great hooks from start to finish. As such it’s difficult to pick highlights but the one-two openers of Eat Me Up Alive and Best Of Me make a brilliant statement of intent. For your favourites take your pick; I’m going for those great openers and the slightly more up tempo Last Call, equally so Take A Big Bite and the powerhouse Don’t Let Go which closes the album.

You might gather I really love this album, it makes you feel good and reminds me of the days when I had a full head of hair halfway down my back. A brilliant return to form that anyone who was into Ratt in the eighties is going to be blown away by.
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