Year : 1980 (Japan SHM-CD Remastered Edition 2023)
Style : Melodic Hard Rock
Country : United Kingdom
Audio : 320 kbps + scans + Video
Size : 117 mb
Bio:
Def Leppard are an English rock band formed in 1977 in Sheffield as part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement. Since 1992, the band has consisted of Rick Savage (bass, backing vocals), Joe Elliott (lead vocals), Rick Allen (drums, backing vocals), Phil Collen (guitar, backing vocals), and Vivian Campbell (guitar, backing vocals). This is the band's longest-standing line-up.Def Leppard reissuing today a Deluxe Edition of "Slang" available in three formats: a double CD, vinyl LP and Digital editions, containing the original 11 album tracks re-mastered and numerous bonus tracks previously unreleased."Slang" was their first record with guitarist Vivian Campbell following the death of Steve Clark in 1991. The album saw Def Leppard reacting to the grunge era by moving away from the ultra-polished sound masterminded by Mutt Lange – and although it didn’t sell as well as had their previous records it has come to be regarded as their most underrated work.
Album:
A few days ago Universal Music Japan started a new reissue campaign of DEF LEPPARD albums pressed on SHM-CD, a Limited Edition release on miniLP reproducing the album first edition LP in miniature and the original Japanese OBI. This reissue differs from the previous (now sold out) SHM-CD reissues, as features a new remastering.“On Through The Night” is the memorable debut studio album by the English band, produced by Tom Allom (Judas Priest, Krokus), for many fans their best moment musically.It all starts back in 1979, when an inexperienced but ambitious Def Leppard became one of the very first New Wave of British Heavy Metal bands (even though they never felt a particularly strong kinship to the movement) to release some a record — the immensely collectible Def Leppard EP.Then, little more than a year later, the young Sheffield quintet made up of singer Joe Elliott, guitarists Steve Clark and Pete Willis, bassist Rick Savage and drummer Rick Allen — unleashed its first full-length album, “On Through The Night”.With an average age of eighteen, the five members of Def Leppard were barely old enough to remember the first Neanderthal rumblings of Black Sabbath and Deep Purple. Yet “On Through The Night” shows they not only respect their elders, they’ve taken cues from their New Wave peers, too.Ignoring heavy-metal’s unwritten law requiring long guitar solos in every other tune, guitarists Pete Willis and Steve Clark shoot from the hip, packing their licks into tight, three-minute hard rock / pop arrangements.The anthem-like “Rock Brigade” and “Hello America,” with its Queen-aphonic harmonies, are apt examples.Even when they dare to wax poetic in such apocalyptic sagas as “When the Walls Came Tumbling Down” and the seven-minute, Rush-style “Overture,” Def Leppard rarely let their ambition outstrip their rock & roll sense.Bassist Rick Savage and drummer Rick Allen apply the same youthful muscle to a breast-beating ballad (“Sorrow Is a Woman”) as they do to the Thin Lizzy-like raver “Wasted” with an awesome riff, great chorus, and great solo. It’s a real underrated little gem.And while Joe Elliott isn’t yet a lead singer on the sanctified level of Robert Plant, he wails decently in a resonating tenor, fortified by backup harmonies and Tom Allom’s battering-ram production.Still with its faults, “On Through The Night” is a quite good album from a young band which was making a name in the British Rock scene. This remastered version sounds fabulous on SHM-CD.
Line-Up:
Joe Elliott – lead vocals
Steve Clark – lead and rhythm guitar
Pete Willis – lead and rhythm guitar
Rick Savage – bass
Rick Allen – drums
Additional musicians:
Chris M. Hughes – synths on 2
Dave Cousins – voice on 6
Tracklist:
01. Rock Brigade
02. Hello America
03. Sorrow Is a Woman
04. It Could Be You
05. Satellite
06. When the Walls Came Tumbling Down
07. Wasted
08. Rocks Off
09. It Don’t Matter
10. Answer to the Master
11. Overture
+ Video "Rock Brigade" (Official Video)
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