![]() Furthermore, they decided to expand their musical vocabulary slightly, working elements of R&B and Funk into the rhythms. The change in approach is apparent and welcome - Def Leppard hasn't sounded so immediate since "Pyromania". Most notably, Rick Allen has returned to playing acoustic drums after playing an electronic kit for nearly a decade. There are very few layers-of-guitar effects on the album, just straight, crunching chords. Jettisoning producer Mutt Lange - who, admittedly, was busy producing his wife, country singer Shania Twain - the group stripped its sound to the basics for "Slang". After the lackluster performance of "Adrenalize", Def Leppard realized it was time to abandon their trademark wall-of-guitars sound. The album marked a musical departure from their signature sound. The sixth full-length album by legendary British Melodic Alternative/Hard Rock band. It was selling over 10 million copies in the US, and thus being certified Diamond by the RIAA. The album was a huge success, charting at No. "Pyromania" has received mostly positive reviews, being commonly considered, along with its follow-up "Hysteria", one of the band's finest efforts to date. Song "Rock! Rock! ('Till You Drop)" was performed as early as 1980, originally as a song called "Medicine Man", with different lyrics. Leppard's quest for huge, transcendent Hard Rock perfection on "Pyromania" was surprisingly successful their reach never exceeded their grasp, which makes the album an enduring (and massively influential) classic! It wasn't a raw or spontaneous sound, but the performances were still energetic and committed. Robert John "Mutt" Lange's buffed-to-a-sheen production - polished drum and guitar sounds, multi-tracked layers of vocal harmonies, a general sanding of any and all musical rough edges, and a perfectionistic attention to detail - set the style for much of the melodic Hard Rock that followed. More than ever before, the band's songs on "Pyromania" are driven by catchy, shiny melodic hooks instead of heavy guitar riffs, although the latter do Pop up once in a while.īut it wasn't just this newly intensified focus on melody and consistent songwriting (and heavy MTV exposure) that made "Pyromania" a massive success - and the catalyst for the '80s Pop-Metal movement. While Def Leppard had obviously wanted to write big-sounding anthems on their previous records, "Pyromania" was where the band's vision coalesced and gelled into something more. The third full-length studio album by legendary British Hard Rock/Heavy Metal band.īand's first album to feature guitarist Phil Collen and produced by Robert John "Mutt" Lange.
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