Out Of The Cellar

Metal bands live or die on the guitars, and Ratt had one of the best teams on the entire Sunset Strip in Robbin Crosby and Warren Demartini. Their dynamic interplay on this full-length debut has that Tipton/Downing magic. Stephen Pearcy’s rodent-killing rasp grabs a lot of the attention, but “Wanted Man,” “Lack of Communication,” and even megahit “Round and Round” display some seriously fierce teamwork. If not for the subject matter and the voluminous hair, it’d be easy to mistake this for an NWOBHM record from around that time.