Shout at the Devil

Three quarters of this band are terrible people (Mick Mars seems cool) but these satanic road warriors provided the model for the genre in just about every way that Van Halen didn’t, from sound to behavior. Their second splatter platter transcends the genre ghetto. It’s just a flat-out great metal record, filled with all-timers like the title track, “Looks That Kill,” and “Too Young to Fall in Love” that feel dangerous. Hard to say if the extracurricular activities informed that sensation or resulted from it.