the few bands of our genre that has not broken up... never changed our members and never given up." "Our collective decision is to simply make a Slaughter record and not be concerned with passing trends or the business we're in," he added. 1997–1998: Revolution Slaughter's fourth studio album, Revolution, was released on CMC International Records in May 1997. Dana Strum and Mark Slaughter wrote all the songs in Nashville, Tennessee, where the band's lead vocalist moved around 1996. Later that same month, the band kicked off a two-month tour to promote the album. At the time, Revolution was consistent with the band's intent to be pioneers in rock technology. The record was among the first to be an enhanced CD. This allowed the public to not only hear the music but to watch it via CD-Rom. Dana Strum maintained that enhanced CDs were "the wave of the future". "It is the marriage of music, computers and video which to us is the logical next step," he stated, "Today there are only six new releases on enhanced CD, but by the time we put out our next album, I'll bet it will be a common trend." According to critics, Revolution had a sound, different from the three previous albums. They took note of Mark Slaughter's voice, known for reaching the clouds, was hushed and subdued. The first track, "American Pie", was described as offering boogie-woogie riffs along with "earthy lyrics laced with references to psychedelia". "There are a few different areas we explore," drummer Blas Elias said responding to the criticism. "We always try to do that with every album. There's always going to be the main style that we kind of like and have always done real well with, but we always try to experiment," he added. Nonetheless, with the crossover of alternative rock music in the early '90s, Slaughter, like many other hard-rock bands, struggled to maintain commercial success. In an interview, Blas Elias expressed disappointment over the fact that although some radio stations were giving the album airplay, it was still difficult to get MTV support and radio play. By this point, the movement toward alternative rock killed many careers for big-hair metal bands, however, Slaughter along with Dokken and Warrant were reliving their glory days opening for Alice Cooper on its first of what would become many package tours. The band toured extensively in an effort