Infestation

Infestation is the seventh and final studio album by American glam metal band Ratt. It was released by Loud & Proud via Roadrunner Records, a then-sub-label of their longtime home Atlantic Records, on April 20, 2010. With the death of Robbin Crosby in 2002, guitar duty was taken over by Carlos Cavazo, formerly of Quiet Riot. The band would enter a turbulent period after the release of the album, and by 2018, all musicians had left except lead singer Stephen Pearcy. In a February 17, 2010 interview with the Artisan News Service, Stephen Pearcy said of Infestation: "We wanted this to be like something that we would have written right after [1984's] Out of the Cellar. We definitely went back to basics with the mind set of a band with a lot of excitement and some great songs to get out." In a March 18, 2010 interview with Metalholic Magazine, guitarist Warren DeMartini said of Infestation: "It really exceeded our expectations. Conceptually we kind of wanted to revisit the period of Out of the Cellar and Invasion of Your Privacy. We were sort of loosely trying to shoot for something that could fit between those two records. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infesta...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)