Ratt frontman Stephen Pearcy says the band are hoping to release their tenth album this year to tie in with the band’s 30th anniversary.
With the help of guitarist Warren DeMartini, he’s trying to ensure that the follow-up to 2010′s well-received Infestation retains the feel of the glam metal band’s early material.
Pearcy tells Noize In The Attic, “Warren and I are spearheading the next record to be what it should be: a more Out Of The Cellar thing. Just real hardcore, basically. We’ve already recorded one track – and if this song is the only song ever released, I’d be way happy. We have so much good music we haven’t even tapped into. It’s good stuff.”
The vocalist says they’ve already hired a producer for recording sessions, which are due to commence in the next few months. “We’re trying not to do shows, even though there are some on the books,” he says. “We want a record out – that’s what we want. Our thirtieth anniversary and our tenth record.”
Ratt’s path to their next album has been plagued with the kind of political struggles fans have come to accept. In 2011 former bassist Juan Croucier accused them of poaching guitarist Carlos Cavazo from his band in order to get at him – then later rejoined himself.
In the same year drummer Bobby Blotzer described working with Ratt as like “rolling a snowball uphill” after having blasted his bandmates in his autobiography. Last year Pearcy said he’d learned lessons from Blotzer’s experience and didn’t hold any grudge over the contents of his book, saying, “We’re not the only band in history who were dysfunctional. Eventually and hopefully, you get your shit together and you grow up.”
additional source: classicrockmagazine.com
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Can’t wait to hear what it sounds like especially with juan back in the band it should be a good album.
I wonder if they gey loot every 8 minutes when KFI Los Angeles plays Round & Round per traffic report intro? I doubt it. Signed off in a Century City 43rd floor office probably in ’93.
Always enjoyed RATT. Looking forward to their new album!
Shan
I reading through all these comments and I’m blown away. I haven’t heard Infestation and hearing it compared to A Different Kind of Truth really makes me want to give it a shot. But thinking back to those first three albums, I do remember how solid every single one of them were. In spite of that, I’ve somehow left that era with the impression that they weren’t on the same tier as some other bands of there generation. I need to have a Ratt renaissance today. 🙂
Hey…if he can’t sing that great anymore, doctor it up in the studio. I would rather hear doctored than butchered. Ex. Paul Stanley on sonic boom and monster.