Motel Six might leave the light on for you, but Hotel Diablo will rock your socks off and make you want to bang your head, not lay it on a pillow. For those who don't know, Hotel Diablo is a sort-of supergroup featuring members of WASP, Quiet Riot, and Ladyjack. Now, with a moniker like this, you might expect some blacker-than-Beelzebub's-bunghole death metal, but Hotel Diablo specialize in pure hard rock that most closely hews to the gritty Sunset Strip rock of the '80s (think Guns N' Roses, not Pretty Boy Floyd). Despite a sound that hearkens back to the hairspray-and-spandex days--albeit without the hairspray and spandex--Hotel Diablo rarely come across as past their expiration date. There is a timelessness to their hard rocking sound and the crisp production techniques employed by Gilby Clark ensure the songs sound viable in today's musical climate as opposed to sounding like they just came from a time capsule buried back in 1989.