Quiet Riot - Rehab

Cover: 7 medicated pills out of 10

The cover concept it’s pretty simple, just a word with big letters, but the dark green light in the back of the letters looks kind of cool, also you can see a part of that famous metal mask (mascot?) who’s been present in almost all of their previous album covers.

Songs: 8 raccoon wigs out of 10

Like the title of the record suggest Quiet Riot sounds like they just come out of rehab feeling new and fresh, the songs are pretty strong, a little more heavy than usual but most important of all, they sound more mature, long gone are the silly anthems like “Party all night” or “Rock the house”, but not only are the lyrics more mature, the music is also…. Lets say…“less hair metal” than their previous albums, for example you can hear an harmonica in “South of heaven” or a gospel chorus on “Old habits die hard”, or a blues influenced guitar here and there, they even sound like a total different band on “Evil woman” a Spooky Tooth cover, featuring vocals by Glenn Huges

First track “Free” has a heavy guitar intro courtesy of session musician Neil Citron, Tony Franklin takes care of the bass duties.
Like “Free” (my favourite track), “Blind faith”, “South of heaven” and “Black reign” are also excellent tracks, but there’s really not a bad track in the whole album.
Frankie Banali does an excellent drumming on this album and Kevin Dubrow… well he’s not the best singer in the world, but he delivers, only he can sing lines like “it sucks to be you, but it rocks to be me”.

Comments:

I really think Rehab it’s the best album from Quiet Riot since “Metal Health”, so give this record a chance, you wont be disappointed.

Reviewed by Sleazy