Restless Breed
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Restless Breed |
| type | Album |
| artist | Riot |
| cover | Restless Breed cover.JPG |
| released | May 21, 1982 |
| recorded | Greene St. Recording, New York City |
| genre | Heavy metal, hard rock |
| length | 38:38 |
| label | Elektra |
| producer | Steve Loeb, Billy Arnell |
| prev_title | Fire Down Under |
| prev_year | 1981 |
| next_title | Riot Live (EP) |
| next_year | 1982 |
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| name = Restless Breed | type = Album | artist = Riot | cover = Restless Breed cover.JPG | alt = | released = May 21, 1982 | recorded = Greene St. Recording, New York City | venue = | studio = | genre = Heavy metal, hard rock | length = 38:38 | label = Elektra | producer = Steve Loeb, Billy Arnell | prev_title = Fire Down Under | prev_year = 1981 | next_title = Riot Live (EP) | next_year = 1982 | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = | rev2 =The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal | rev2Score = 8/10 |noprose=yes Restless Breed is the fourth studio album by American heavy metal band Riot, released on May 21, 1982. It was the band's first record with vocalist Rhett Forrester. "When I Was Young" is an Eric Burdon and the Animals' cover.
Restless Breed was first re-issued on CD in 1997 by Germany's High Vaultage label, including the Riot Live six-song EP as bonus tracks. A stateside re-issue followed in 1999 on Metal Blade Records, albeit sans the EP bonus tracks.
Metal Blade would re-issue the album a second time in 2016, this time including the Riot Live EP as bonus tracks. Rock Candy Records reissued a remastered CD of the album in 2019
Metal Hammer included the album cover on their list of "50 most hilariously ugly rock and metal album covers ever".
Track listing
| headline = Side one | title1 = Hard Lovin' Man | writer1 = Rhett Forrester, Doug Salomone | length1 = 2:48 | title2 = C.I.A. | writer2 = Forrester | length2 = 3:43 | title3 = Restless Breed | writer3 = Mark Reale | length3 = 5:11 | title4 = When I Was Young | note4 = Eric Burdon and The Animals cover | writer4 = Eric Burdon, Vic Briggs, John Weider, Barry Jenkins, Danny McCulloch | length4 = 3:25 | title5 = Loanshark | writer5 = Reale, Forrester, Kip Leming | length5 = 4:10
| headline = Side two | title6 = Loved by You | writer6 = Ventura | length6 = 5:37 | title7 = Over to You | writer7 = Ventura | length7 = 3:42 | title8 = Showdown | writer8 = Reale | length8 = 3:49 | title9 = Dream Away | writer9 = Ventura | length9 = 3:43 | title10 = Violent Crimes | writer10 = Leming, Forrester | length10 = 2:30
2016 CD edition bonus tracks
| title11 = Hard Lovin' Man | length11 = 3:09 | title12 = Showdown | length12 = 4:30 | title13 = Loved by You | length13 = 8:02 | title14 = Loanshark | length14 = 5:27 | title15 = Restless Breed | length15 = 5:11 | title16 = Swords and Tequila | length16 = 3:57
Personnel
Riot
- Rhett Forrester – vocals, harmonica
- Mark Reale – guitar
- Rick Ventura – guitar
- Kip Leming – bass
- Sandy Slavin – drums
Production
- Recorded and mixed at Greene St. Recording, New York City
- Produced by Steve Loeb and Billy Arnell
- Engineered by Rod Hui
- Assistant engineer – Frank Scilingo
- Mastered at Masterdisk by Howie Weinberg
- Front cover illustration by Kid Kane
- Original concept by Steven Weiss
References
References
- (7 May 1982). "New Releases".
- Anderson, Jason. "Riot Restless Breed review". [[AllMusic]].
- (November 1, 2005). "The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties". [[Collector's Guide Publishing]].
- "Riot - Restless Breed". [[Encyclopaedia Metallum]].
- (9 May 2023). "The 50 most hilariously ugly rock and metal album covers ever". [[Future plc]].
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