Out of the Cellar is the breakthrough album by heavy metal

Heavy metal music

Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...

 band Ratt

Ratt

Ratt is an American heavy metal band that had significant commercial success in the 1980s. The band is best known for songs such as "Round and Round," "Wanted Man," "Lay It Down," "You're in Love", "Slip of the Lip", "Back For More", "Dance", "Body Talk", "I Want a Woman", and "Way Cool Jr." Ratt...

, released in 1984. It is currently certified 3x platinum by the RIAA. Produced by Beau Hill

Beau Hill

Beau Hill is an American record producer who is best known for his work with Alice Cooper, Kix, Winger, Streets, Warrant, Fiona, Europe and Ratt....

, the album features their best-known hit, "Round and Round

Round and Round (Ratt song)

"Round and Round" is a song by American glam metal band Ratt which proved to be the biggest hit of their career, reaching No. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100. It appears as the third track of their album Out of the Cellar...

", and other hits such as "Wanted Man", "Lack of Communication" and a re-recorded version of "Back for More", a song which originally appeared on the Ratt EP. "In Your Direction" was a song that Pearcy wrote and had since Mickey Ratt, "I'm Insane" and "Scene of the Crime" were songs that Crosby had pre-Ratt. In 2008, "Round and Round" and "I'm Insane" were featured in The Wrestler.

Wanted Man was co-written by bassist Joey Cristofanilli

Joey Cristofanilli

Joey Cristofanilli is a bassist who played in the bands Magic, Rough Cutt, Ratt, and Jag Wire.With the bands Magic and Rough Cutt, he was bandmates with keyboardist Claude Schnell, who later became famous for playing keyboards in the band Dio....

. Cristofanilli briefly substituted for Juan Croucier

Juan Croucier

Juan Croucier is a Cuban-American heavy metal musician.-Career:Croucier attended Torrance High School in Torrance, California. Formerly a bassist for well known metal bands Dokken and Ratt during the 1980s, Croucier was also very briefly in Quiet Riot...

, who was also a member of Dokken

Dokken

Dokken is an American heavy metal and hard rock band formed in 1978. They split up in 1989 but reformed four years later. The group accumulated numerous charting singles and has sold more than 10 million albums worldwide...

 at the time.

The model on the album cover is Tawny Kitaen

Tawny Kitaen

Julie "Tawny" Kitaen is an American actress and media personality. She became famous in the 1980s for appearing in several hard rock videos for the band Whitesnake, including the hit "Here I Go Again". Kitaen was married to Whitesnake lead singer David Coverdale from 1989–1991...

, better known for her appearances in Whitesnake

Whitesnake

Whitesnake are an English rock band, founded in 1978 by David Coverdale after his departure from his previous band, Deep Purple. The band's early material has been compared by critics to Deep Purple, but by the mid 1980s they had moved to a more commercial hard rock style...

 music video

Music video

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s, and the same year's teen-aimed film Bachelor Party. As she was long-time girlfriend to guitarist Robbin Crosby

Robbin Crosby

Robbin Crosby was an American guitarist who was a member of glam metal band Ratt, earning several platinum albums in the U.S. in the mid-to-late 1980s. Crosby was HIV positive, but died from a heroin overdose in 2002....

 at that time, she also appeared in the "Back For More" music video.

Track listing

Personnel

• Stephen Pearcy
  Stephen Pearcy
  Stephen Erica Pearcy is the lead singer of the 80's metal band Ratt. He has also been in the bands Arcade, Vicious Delite, Vertex, Nitronic, and Band From Hell...
  
   - lead vocals
• Warren DeMartini
  Warren DeMartini
  Warren Justin DeMartini , nicknamed Torch, is the lead guitarist for Ratt, a popular American band during the mid-to-late 1980s Los Angeles glam metal scene.-Early life:...
  
   - lead guitar
• Robbin Crosby
  Robbin Crosby
  Robbin Crosby was an American guitarist who was a member of glam metal band Ratt, earning several platinum albums in the U.S. in the mid-to-late 1980s. Crosby was HIV positive, but died from a heroin overdose in 2002....
  
   - lead guitar
• Juan Croucier
  Juan Croucier
  Juan Croucier is a Cuban-American heavy metal musician.-Career:Croucier attended Torrance High School in Torrance, California. Formerly a bassist for well known metal bands Dokken and Ratt during the 1980s, Croucier was also very briefly in Quiet Riot...
  
   - bass guitar
• Bobby Blotzer
  Bobby Blotzer
  Robert John Blotzer, better known as Bobby Blotzer and nicknamed "Blotz" , is a drummer most famous for playing drums for glam metal band Ratt...
  
   - drums, percussion
• Beau Hill
  Beau Hill
  Beau Hill is an American record producer who is best known for his work with Alice Cooper, Kix, Winger, Streets, Warrant, Fiona, Europe and Ratt....
  
   - producer, engineer
• Jim Faraci - engineer

Charts

Album - Billboard (America)

Year	Chart	Position
1984	The Billboard 200	7

Singles - Billboard (America)
{| class="wikitable"
!Year
!Single
!Chart
!Position
|-

|1984
|"Round and Round"
|The Billboard Hot 100
Mainstream Rock Tracks
|align="center"|12
4
|-
|1984
|rowspan="1"|"Back For More"
|Mainstream Rock Tracks
|align="center"|27
|-
|1984
|rowspan="2"|"Wanted Man"
|The Billboard Hot 100
|align="center"|87
|-

Certifications

{| class="wikitable"
! bgcolor="#ebf5ff"|Country
! bgcolor="#ebf5ff"|Certification
! bgcolor="#ebf5ff"|Date
! bgcolor="#ebf5ff"|Sales certified
|-
|U.S.
|align="center"|3x Platinum
|align="center"|September 30, 1991
|align="center"|3,000,000
|-
|}

External links

• Album lyrics