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The post M3 Rock Festival 2025 Lineup: Rare David Lee Roth Gig and Partial Ratt Reunion appeared first on Consequence. The M3 Rock Festival has unveiled its 2025 lineup, headlined by David Lee Roth ...

RATT, the American heavy metal band formed in the late ‘70s in California, will be the headliner for rock night at Lakes Jam 2021 at Brainerd International Raceway in Brainerd. RATT will hit the Bud ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Ratt’s world is a turbulent one – in 2005 it’s unclear who exactly is entitled to the ‘Ratt’ name ...

Hair metal icons Ratt have not released a new album since 2010's Infestation, but that could potentially change in 2021. The band is currently working on new music in the studio and have vowed to have ...

Everyone's gotta start somewhere and though Metallica now routinely pack stadiums, there was a point where the group actually performed in a roller rink. This new revelation comes courtesy of former ...

Rock resurgence is a winding road, so let’s get out the map. Here’s one route: If your band’s track gets played during the final scene of a prestige TV hit, a la Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin'” and ...

The classic Ratt song “Round and Round” returned to the Billboard Top 20 for the first time since its original release in 1984, thanks to its appearance in a current TV commercial. Back then, it ...

Let’s put irony aside for just a moment and ask ourselves, to what extent can we really appreciate the finer moments of hair metal? Like the Scorpions’ “Wind of Change” becoming the theme song for the ...

Ratt singer Stephen Pearcy said the band was recently offered a “lucrative” deal for a reunion of the classic lineup, but they couldn’t reach an agreement to make it happen. However, he insisted he ...

One wouldn’t usually associate Metallica, the gritty, workmanlike forefathers of thrash, with Ratt, the epitome of ’80s sunset strip glam metal excess. But wouldn ...