MetalEpicenter.com recently hooked up with QUIET RIOT drummer Frankie Banali to discuss the band's new album, Rehab. The following is a brief excerpt:

Q: We've been listening to some of the tracks that you have posted on your site and it sounds like you guys made a conscious effort to be have a diverse sound on the disc. Are we accurate in that assumption?

Banali: "Rehab is the best Quiet Riot material that we have released in nearly two decades. It is the best musical and lyrical material we've ever attempted. You have songs here that differ from anything we've done in the past. Songs like 'Free' and 'Blind Faith' which are both 'modern' and heavier than anything we recorded in the past. There are also songs that showcase both Kevin's incredibly powerful vocal abilities such as in 'Old Habits Die Hard' and my own love of steady and heavy grooves as in 'South Of Heaven' and 'Evil Woman', which features the amazing vocal and bass talents of Glenn Hughes.

There is one song that is similar in style and approach to songs of the older style in the Kevin DuBrow penned track 'It Sucks To Be You' which is just a fun song. When Kevin played me the demo for that song we agreed to record it to see how it turned out. When we mixed the songs and were deciding what would be on the US release and what would be "bonus" tracks for international releases I wanted to have the song 'Wired To The Moon', which seemed stylistically a better fit as part of the US release and have 'Sucks' as a international bonus track, but Kevin disagreed. It's a fun album track.

Having the pleasure to record with Tony Franklin on bass who is my favorite bass player, and the incredibly talented guitarist Neil Citron made it possible to make this record. No other combination of musicians that Kevin and I have worked with in the past could have achieved what we achieved on Rehab due to the variety of the material and styles."

To read the entire interview go to this location.