Band:	Ratt
Album:	Out Of The Cellar
Style:	Glam metal, Hard rock
Release date:	1984
A review by:	KwonVerge

01. Wanted Man
02. You're In Trouble
03. Round And Round
04. In Your Direction
05. She Wants Money
06. Lack Of Communication
07. Back For More
08. The Morning After
09. I'm Insane
10. Scene Of The Crime

Motley Crue and Hanoi Rocks made it happen, the glam/sleaze hard rock scene of the 80s was reality and Ratt couldn't be missing from the whole party! It's 1983 and the renowned self-titled EP comes out and the sleazy tribe celebrates under the tunes of perversion of Ratt.

1984 arrives and their debut album comes "Out Of The Cellar" and from its cover you realize that they are not angels, on the contrary, they are dirty and ready for everything! Well, they keep up the general approach of the scene in terms of sound, attitude, aesthetic etc but they present their own identity through their compositions.

The songs of "Out Of The Celar" flow mainly on a vivid and groovy mid-tempo way, without forgetting though to place here and there some more upbeat passages that escalate the compositions. The guitar work is just fabulous with the on-tempo riffing lending that danceable and poser groove the sleazy compositions must have and the high-quality solos make the whole feeling more affected. Really, the guitarists pours their souls to the altar of rock n' roll with their solos, some of which really burn the shrouds with their twisted feeling (just listen to "Back For More" and you'll get what I mean, the solos speak for themselves).

A punk-oriented feeling is vivid in the atmosphere of the album but let's not forget the New York Dolls and the impact they had in the scene, with a primary sound though. The rhythm section keeps the tempo in the most ideal way and here and there you may notice some really nice and creative bass guitar passages. The vocals are dirty as you expected with Pearcy interpreting the in the bad-ass-and-dirty-lover vein lyrics in the most appropriate way. The sing-along moments lend the album a more arena-like style where all the poser glam/sleaze rockers poor themselves!

Take my advice and listen to the album as a whole, after all it isn't so lengthy, without choosing the one song or the other because the compositions have a nice flow all together, there's a really good chemistry between them with the album balancing somewhere between mid-tempo and upbeat groove, keeping always a danceable feeling.

Come "Out Of The Cellar", grab the naughty girl that is waiting outside, get back in the cellar and play rock n roll! An album that every dedicated glam rocker shouldn't forget to check!

"I wanna rock, but you, you dared to roll..."