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Title: Shout at the Devil
Artist: Motley Crue
Label: Elektra
Release Date: 1983

Rating: 4 Skulls
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    • Death's Review:
    "In the beginning..." Motley Crue was a sick-ass metal band. Opening for Ozzy Osbourne on the Bark at the Moon tour, spitting fire and blood and drinking waaaay too much, Motley Crue was glam metal, sure, but evil glam metal. Celebratory, angry, raw, honest, and incredibly catchy glam metal. Motley Crue was pretty good, and for a month or two the "Looks that Kill" video was the coolest thing on MTV.

    By the time the second video, "Too Young to Fall in Love," started getting heavy airplay, Motley Crue were stars. Next thing you know, Theater of Pain ushers in a whole era of pink-scarved pop. Never will the Crue rock again, and no band will let me down as much again until Metallica five or six years later. But Shout at the Devil is a good early-eighties party-metal record, and, if only for its impact alone, belongs in the hall of the true metal classics.
    4 out of 5
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