Restless and Wild
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| Studio album by Accept | ||||
| Released | 2 October 1982 | |||
| Recorded | February–March and June 1982 | |||
| Studio | Dierks Studios, Cologne, Germany | |||
| Genre | Heavy metal, speed metal | |||
| Length | 43:37 | |||
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Brain (Germany) Heavy Metal (UK) Portrait (US) |
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| Producer | Accept | |||
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| AllMusic |   |
| Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal | 10/10 |
| Hard & heavy |  |
Restless and Wild is the fourth studio album by German heavy metal band Accept, released in 1982 in Continental Europe and in 1983 in the US and UK. It was the first Accept album to not be recorded at Delta-Studio, the band moving to Dieter Dierks' studio in Stommeln. It is also the first Accept album in which Udo Dirkschneider sings every track, as well as the first in which manager Gaby Hauke ("Deaffy") gains credits for songwriting. Michael Wagener took engineering and mixing duties once again.
Jan Koemmet joined the band briefly before the release of this album, but did not participate in the recording. The guitar on the finished product is done by Wolf Hoffmann alone, although Herman Frank had joined the band by the time the album was released, and is credited on the album cover.
The album is best known for the opening track, "Fast as a Shark", considered among the fastest speed metal songs for the time.
Another well-known track is album closer "Princess of the Dawn", a tense song that Udo describes as "a Cinderella story" and "like a Lord of the Rings fantasy" with no deep meaning. Wolf Hoffmann achieved the haunting mandolin-like effect by recording the guitar at half-speed, then having it played back at normal speed. He describes the sudden ending as "an idea that didn't work so well."
Versions of the album released outside Germany were issued with a different cover, replacing the picture of burning guitars with a shot of the band live in concert. American death metal band Cannibal Corpse has made a cover of the song "Demon's Night". It can be found on their EP Worm Infested.
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