#107/1272
March 1986
Raven
The Pack is Back
Genre: 80s Metal
2 out of 5
Sigh.
There was a time when Raven was actually fun. Back in the All for One days. Then they shot hard for that Ratt relevance and missed so poorly. And they are back trying for a big muscly metal sound and…you remember how disappointed you were with For Those About to Rock? It sounds like that. They are going for that big ring of metallurgy and it’s just a series of misses.
Not even the metal version of “Gimme Some Lovin’” can save this platter. And I really wanted to like “Hyperactive” with it’s horn section but, unlike “Staying Power” by Queen or “Friend or Foe” by Adam Ant, it just comes out sounding incongruous
The Pack is Back is filled with testosteroney peacocking and every rock cliche that came out of the late 70s.
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