CRASHDÏET “Rest In Sleaze” (2005)

Tracklist
1. Knokk Em Down
2. Riot In Everyone
3. Queen Obscene 69 Shots
4. Breakin the Chainz
5. Needle in Your Eye
6. Tikket
7. Out of Line
8. It’s a Miracle
9. Straight Outta Hell
10. Back on Trakk

The Swedish sleaze scene boasts Vains of Jenna, Hell N’ Diesel, and Babylon Bombs, but none is bigger in my mind than the original lineup of CRASHDÏET. Rest In Sleaze will forever stand as one of my favorite albums, alongside such classics as Appetite For Destruction, Open Up and Say Ahhh and Dr. Feelgood.

CRASHDÏET delivers everything you would expect from a sleaze metal band: soaring vocals, high-octane guitar solos, down and dirty rhythm. No record that remotely resembles hair metal would be complete without a ballad, and CRASHDÏET delivers with “It’s a Miracle,” which is better than 95% of the songs found on those “Monster Ballads” compilations.

If you missed CRASHDÏET’s Rest In Sleaze when it was released a few years ago, you owe it to yourself to track down a copy today.

RATING: 10/10

HRN’s Picks: “Riot In Everyone,” “Breakin the Chainz,” “It’s a Miracle”

~ by JT on July 13, 2009.