Artist: Van Halen
Title: “Tattoo” (Single)
Label: Interscope Records
Release Date: 1/10/2012
Genre: Hard Rock
Rating: 2.5/5

A few days ago, I shared the debut video of some brand-new Van Halen material with the clip of their single “Tattoo” which you can watch by clicking HERE if you’d care to. Now since I like to parse out my viewpoints in the review sense, I decided to add some deeper quick thoughts on the song itself as opposed to my notions on the music video which can be found at that link. In the timeline, this is the first new music by Van Halen with David Lee Roth since the two tracks on the “Best Of” release from some 15 years ago. The tune is a slow-moving number that keeps to its pace and doesn’t build to any type of chaos or super heavy parts. There is a nice guitar riff from Eddie, but I expected that much and as far as Alex goes he is keeping this to a four on the floor style. On bass is Eddie’s son Wolfgang and he does a fine job of locking in the rhythm section. I also believe he is singing some backup like his predecessor Michael Anthony used to.
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