Title: Locked and loaded
Product review: "Back for the Attack" sees Dokken making a pretty serious album for them, and with all the talent at their disposal, the ensuing hail of bullets does not disappoint. I really like the dark shadings on here that go along with Don's (and Jeff's) supreme grasp of melody. There's an isolated Sabbath vibe to this thing; "Kiss of Death" takes a page right out of the Sabs' "Back Street Kids" playbook. Of course everything is updated with the latest guitar histrionics of the day (which hasn't been surpassed...God I love the '80s!) George sending his Jimi Hendrix over the mountain with enough shred to blast Yngwie and his imitators back down a scorched path to hell; just some incredible sound sculptures here. But the ever cool Don reigns everything in with his smooth metallic croon, total confidence that his choruses will be spot on, the perfect antidote for all the marauding on display behind him.
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