Metal Health

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Metal Health
Studio album by Quiet Riot

Publication
(s)

February 1, 1983

Label (s) CBS (Europe), Pasha (USA)

Format (s)

LP , MC , CD ,

Genre (s)

Hard rock , heavy metal

Title (number)

10

running time

40:57

occupation

production

Spencer Proffer

chronology
Qiet Riot II
(1979) 		Metal Health Condition Critical
(1984)

Metal Health is the third studio album by the American heavy metal band Quiet Riot , released in 1983 . The title is an allusion to the English term "mental health" (German: "mental health"; better: " psychological constitution"), which is also illustrated by the design of the album cover , which shows a man in a straitjacket and a metal face mask ; the straitjacket has buttons showing the faces of the four members of Quiet Riot.

background

Quiet Riot was founded in 1976 by the guitarist Randy Rhoads . Together with singer Kevin DuBrow, bassist Kelli Garni and drummer Drew Forsyth they recorded the two albums Quiet Riot and Quiet Riot II in 1978 and 1979, respectively , which were only released in Japan and were commercially unsuccessful. The group broke up in 1979 when Rhoads accepted an offer to become guitarist in Ozzy Osbourne's band .

DuBrow then started the project "Dubrow" with bassist Chuck Wright, drummer Frankie Banali and guitarist Carlos Cavazo , which Wright left during the recording of the debut album. Rudy Sarzo, who joined "Dubrow" after Rhoads' tragic death of Ozzy Osbourne's band, replaced him and the group changed their name to Quiet Riot.

Metal Health was released on February 1, 1983 (in July 2018 as Remastered / HighResAudio - 24/192) and contains ten songs, the ballad Thunderbird being dedicated to the late Rhoads. The cover version of the Slade hit Cum on Feel the Noize , written by Noddy Holder and Jim Lea, was released as a single , which climbed to number 5 in the US singles charts (the original version had only reached number 98 in 1973). As a result, the band achieved a sensation: Metal Health is considered the first heavy metal album to reach number one on the US album charts . Quiet Riot was henceforth traded as the American answer to Slade.

Metal Health has received six platinum awards to date .

Track list

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Metal Health
  US 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 04/23/1983 (81 weeks)
Singles
Cum on feel the noize
  US 5 09/17/1983 (21 weeks)
Metal Health / Cum On Feel the Noize
  UK 45 December 3rd, 1983 (5 weeks)
Bang Your Head (Metal Health)
  US 31 07/01/1984 (12 weeks)
  1. Metal Health (Banali, Cavazo, DuBrow) - 5:17
  2. Cum on Feel the Noize (Holder, Lea) - 4:50
  3. Don't Wanna Let You Go (Cavazo, DuBrow) - 4:42
  4. Slick Black Cadillac (DuBrow) - 4:12
  5. Love's a Bitch (DuBrow) - 4:13
  6. Breathless (Cavazo, DuBrow) - 3:51
  7. Run for Cover (Cavazo, DuBrow) - 3:38
  8. Battle Ax (Cavazo) - 1:38
  9. Let's Get Crazy (DuBrow) - 4:08
  10. Thunderbird (DuBrow) - 4:42

reception

Allmusic's Eduardo Rivadavia wrote of Metal Health that the "meteoric success of the album" must "have surprised the band more than its critics and new fans." The album is "not half as average as some would like it to be". The title track would "still work today after all the years since the album was released". Although it is "without question the best work of the band", Metal Health still has "only the status of the one-hit-wonder , which it owes to the inability of the band" to even release "anything that is considered a befitting successor" could.

Metal Health was first awarded a gold record on September 12, 1983, and a month later went platinum. Further platinum awards followed: Quadruple platinum was awarded on November 24, 1986, six-fold platinum on May 23, 1995. The single Cum on Feel the Noize was also awarded a gold single on December 12, 1983.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Charts:
  2. ↑ Rock Hard Encyclopedia; Rock Hard GmbH, 1998, page 317; ISBN 3-9805171-0-1 .
  3. ↑ a b Awards Database of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)
  4. ↑ a b Sources chart placements:
  5. ↑ Review at Allmusic , accessed on May 8, 2012