RATT vocalist Stephen Pearcy will release his fifth solo album, “View To A Thrill” on November 9 via Frontiers Music Srl. The follow-up to 2017’s “Smash” was produced by Matt Thorne and Pearcy and was mixed and mastered by Thorne and Stephen‘s longtime guitarist and collaborator, Erik Ferentinos.
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Speaking about the songwriting process for his solo material, Pearcy told Music Existence:
“RATT‘s music is its own entity and animal, and it has its own schematics. With my solo stuff, I tend to do whatever I like — an acoustic song, a really heavy song — and go places and talk about things that I want to. It’s my freedom of speech. That’s one thing I like about it, and I’m always writing, so what else can I do, you know? Just try to get it out and get it heard! I don’t care if it sells ten million or nil million; it’s just what I do. You do the best that you can.”
Pearcy also talked in more detail about the musical inspiration for “Smash”, saying:
“It’s just my guitar player Erik, who I co-wrote most of the stuff with. We’d just come up with songs and take them through a journey. That’s pretty much how it happens. I don’t think about anything. If it sounds like something that’s an influence, and if it’s a good one, that’s even better! I don’t really think about emulating anybody; it’s more of an influential thing that just came out. That’s a compliment to both of us, how I respect them. And I’m sure they’d say, ‘Woah, that sounds pretty good!’ But that’s about it — the light and the dark of the things, you know?”
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Stephen added that he wanted “Smash” to be a “diverse” record.
“The subject matter’s very different than what was expected, and what would be expected,” he explained. “And there’s some personal stuff in there — a song I wrote for my daughter, ‘Rain’. I’m able to do whatever I want with my solo stuff, so this is what you get.”
“View To A Thrill” track listing:
01. U Only Live Twice
02. Sky Falling
03. Malibu
04. One In A Million
05. Double Shot
06. Secrets To Tell
07. Not Killin’ Me
08. Dangerous Thing
09. I’m A Ratt
10. From The Inside
11. Violator