This album is by far the Crue's best. All the songs are great and so catchy that over 20 years later I still remember all the lyrics. I think musically this was the best one as well. Better than most of the rest of the 80's metal/hard rock released at this time.

What a follow up to Too Fast.
Ups the obnoxiousness by ten.
A classic.
Anyone who does not own this disc is not a rock fan.
From start to finish, perfection.
A must buy?
Duh!!!

The title simply describes what it sounds like! Shout at the Devil rips for attention.The 2nd album from The Crue had a little more production sound added but it fit right in without over doing it. In my opinion this was the last great album before the ballads and pink feathers,glittery stage looking garbage. Want real Crue? by this album!!

This record is pretty much in the same vein as the Crue's debut of Too Fast for Love -- Sleazy, sloppy, and trashy but in an energetic fun way. The production is much better though and singer Vince Neil puts in a nasty vocal performance just like on Too Fast for Love, but the band musically performs better.

Tommy Lee never skips a beat with his hard hitting and harsh pounding drum beats. It still has the raw metal garage sound with songs like "To Young To Fall In Love" and "Looks That Kill" that became all-time Crue classics. The songs have memorable guitar riffs and catchy choruses. The title track got them branded as satan worshipers, which they aren't, but the publicity certainly didn't hurt their career.

1983 for me was a great year. I was 11 years old. Not too long before that, friends had let me hear music like Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, and newer Kiss albums like "Creatures of the Night." Although I had always liked Kiss when I was a small child, I didn't really actually buy thier stuff until I was older. After I saw a couple of videos on MTV of Def Leppard, Ozzy, and Motley Crue, I was a metalhead. So, bear with me, we'll go back in time and I had "Pyromania, Bark at the Moon," and "Holy Diver" which I had traded a G.I. Joe action figure for. I then bought "Shout at the Devil." It was just another great album from a great time in the metal genre. I remember my mother telling me, "don't let your father see that album cover!" Not that "Shout at the Devil" has distastful album artwork by today's standards but, in 1983, this was a little disconcerting to many parents. The Crue was not the first ones to have a pentagram on a record. Satanism in metal was beginning to grasp America's youth.
However, Motley Crue falls very short of being satanic. It was all a way to sell records. I read a magazine interview at the time and Vince Neil was asked about thier image regarding the pentagram and he said it was the mark of the werewolf. What? C'mon dude? Nobody makes albums about werewolves.
"Shout at the Devil" for me, represents what I was into at the time. And, for lack of knowing about other bands, this was pretty good stuff. As I grew older, I started getting into heavier and darker forms of metal like Venom, Slayer, and of course Metallica just like everyone else. Motley Crue had caught my attention with thier second album but that's it. After that, I didn't care for "Theatre of Pain, Girls, Girls, Girls, and all of thier other stuff.
This cd is tight. It's not as loose and rushed as "Too Fast for Love." Motley Crue took thier time and came up with a hit. I'll always remember this album with many others from the same time period when I was coming of age.