Ratt

Detonator

1990 · Hard Rock · Atlantic

Europe · 7567-82127-1

Credits

Producer: Arthur Payson
Mixed by: Mike Shipley
Written by: Desmond Child, Stephen Pearcy, Warren DeMartini, Juan Croucier, Bobby Blotzer, Robbin Crosby

Seattle Grunge

Heavy riffs played by people raised on punk, recorded cheap in the Pacific Northwest and then sold worldwide.

Detroit Proto-Punk

Pull this thread and you get Michigan guitar noise from 1969 ballrooms to 1999 basements, unbroken.