MÖTLEY CRÜE — Shout At The Devil (review)

MÖTLEY CRÜE — Shout At The Devil album cover Album · 1983 · Glam Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3.5/5 ·
UMUR
Shout at the Devil is the 2nd full-length studio album by American heavy/ glam rock act Mötley Crüe. The album turned out to be a great commercial and artistical success for the band selling 200.000 copies in the first two weeks of its release and about 3.000.000 copies in all. The album was released by Elektra in September 1983.

Shout at the Devil sees Mötley Crüe going in a much more raw and heavy direction compared the music on the debut album Too Fast for Love (1981). As bassist Nikki Sixx says in the liner notes, the band felt it was time to put the pedal down. And that they certainly do! Shout at the Devil is probably the most "metal" album Mötley Crüe released in the eighties. Not that Shout at the Devil is not essentially a glam album ( just take one look at the front cover, and any doubt will be blown away), but there are lots of traditional and harder edged heavy metal elements on the album too ( take a listen to songs like Looks that Kill and Red Hot for proof). The band are famous for their dirty glam attitude and bay boy image and that attitude transfers perfectly to the music. They even manage to make the cover of Helter Skelter by The Beatles sound like their own sleazy creation. What a great cover version that is.

The production is raw and powerful and fortunately there are only very few synths on the album ( most notably in Danger). The use of synths is something that would mare their next release.

I´ve had a really good time listening to Shout at the Devil this last week, and you can say that it´s one of those albums that really surprised me in a positive way. I´ve been going back and forth between a 4 star or a 3.5 star rating all week, but I´ve landed on 3.5 stars. The album does become a bit too predictable/ formulaic in the end for my taste, but boy do Mötley Crüe rock hard.
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Stephen wrote:
more than 2 years ago
lol, yes well as long as it rocks, it's something we need to explore :)

UMUR wrote:
more than 2 years ago
Well, there´s more to me than meets the eye Stephen. I wouldn´t call myself an expert in Glam metal/ heavy rock, but I´ve listened to a fair share of the bigger acts in the genre back in the day. Hell I even used to be the world´s biggest Bon Jovi fan around the time when New Jersey was released. :-)
Stephen wrote:
more than 2 years ago
it's a surprising event for me a man with death/thrash taste like Jonas could hear something like this, thumbs up bro! :)

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