New Tattoo

New Tattoo
Studio album by
ReleasedJuly 11, 2000 (2000-07-11)
RecordedMarch–June 2000
StudioCello Studios, Hollywood and Can Am Studios, Tarzana, California
Genre
Length43:22
Label
ProducerMike Clink
Mötley Crüe chronology
Live: Entertainment or Death
(1999)
New Tattoo
(2000)
Music to Crash Your Car To: Vol. 1
(2003)
Singles from New Tattoo
  1. "Hell on High Heels"
    Released: 2000
  2. "New Tattoo"
    Released: 2000
  3. "Treat Me Like the Dog I Am"
    Released: 2000 (promo)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic
The Daily VaultB+
Entertainment WeeklyD+
Metal Forces7.5/10
Orlando Weeklyunfavorable
Peopleunfavorable
Rolling Stone
The Rolling Stone Album Guide

New Tattoo is the eighth studio album by the American heavy metal band Mötley Crüe, released in 2000. Artistically, New Tattoo shows the band returning to the earlier musical style that gave them commercial success in the 1980s and early 1990s. This is the only album by the band not to feature drummer Tommy Lee, who left the band a year before, and was replaced by former Ozzy Osbourne drummer Randy Castillo on the album. The album also marked Castillo’s final full-length studio recording project that he was involved in before his death in March 2002.

The album artwork was inspired by the cover of Bruce Dickinson's album Tattooed Millionaire, whose title track is said to be about Dickinson's wife cheating on him with bassist Nikki Sixx, as revealed in Mötley Crüe's biography The Dirt.