Dokken "Under Lock And Key (UK, 2014 Rock Candy Remastered & Reloaded Edition, Rock Candy Records, CANDY194)"

Under Lock and Key is the third studio album by heavy metal band Dokken, released on November 22, 1985 through Elektra Records. The album reached No. 32 on the U.S. Billboard 200 and remained on that chart for 67 weeks. Two singles also charted: "The Hunter" and "In My Dreams", both reaching No. 25 and 24 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock respectively, with "In My Dreams" at No. 77 on the Billboard Hot 100. Under Lock and Key was certified Gold on March 4, 1986 and Platinum on April 14, 1987.

The album's opener "Unchain the Night" is considered by some to be among the heaviest glam metal tracks. The song contains an acoustic intro. The guitar solo was described as "catacomb-clearing" by Revolver.

Eduardo Rivadavia in his review for AllMusic calls Under Lock and Key "quite possibly Dokken's most 'complete' album, with a little something for every type of fan", like "fist-pumping headbangers", extraordinary "bittersweet mid-paced rockers" ("Unchain the Night" and "The Hunter") and "saccharine ballads". Rivadavia recommends the album as the best introduction to new listeners of Dokken, but notes that heavy metal purists would likely prefer the band's 1984 album Tooth and Nail. Canadian journalist Martin Popoff considers the album "too weighted towards Def Leppard's fat-and-open formula rock", resulting "a bit subdued and predictable" in comparison with its predecessor. The band's glamorous look, the media exposure and George Lynch's "attempt to define the L.A. sound in his own image" do not save Under Lock and Key from sounding "like the work of a band just fed".

Tracklist:

1. Unchain the Night 05:17  
2. The Hunter 04:06  
3. In My Dreams 04:18
4. Slippin' Away 03:46  
5. Lightnin' Strikes Again 03:47   
6. It's Not Love 05:01  
7. Jaded Heart 04:13
8. Don't Lie to Me 03:38  
9. Will the Sun Rise 04:09
10. Til the Livin' End 03:56   

Time:  42:11  

Released as part of Rock Candy Records' Collector's Edition Remastered & Reloaded series.

Includes 16 page booklet, 3,500 word essay including new Don Dokken interview, enhanced artwork and rare photos.

Recording information:

Recorded at Amigo Studios, North Hollywood, CA; Le Mobile - remote truck; and Total Access Studio, Redondo Beach, CA.

Mixed at Amigo Studios, North Hollywood, CA.

Mastered at Masterdisk.

Neil Kernon, Michael Wagener – producers, engineers, mixing

Mark Wilczak – assistant engineer and mixing

Cliff Bonell, Michael Lardie – assistant engineers

Bob Ludwig – mastering at Masterdisk, New York