Anybody heard of the band Riot?

[Speeddemon]

Early stuff us awesome though and I still listen to it. But what’s up with the seal?

Same here.
Even wore a 'Fire Down Under' t-shirt to highschool for some years. Sold it a couple of years ago on Ebay.
I tried to get my band to cover 'Altar of the King' (I loved the intro), but alas, to no avail. "Too obscure".

Never got the seal either, and their 2nd album "Narita" does a good attempt for weirdest album cover ever. (Yes, weirder than "Rock City" even).
An English (because...well, lobster-sunburnt! ) sumo wrestler, wielding an axe , with a seal head standing in a field of skulls ...and a WWII bomber flying overhead after dropping some napalm near what may be Mt Fuji... like WTF!

 

[lol]

Riot is great. Really liked the Restless Breed album. Rhett Forrester has a great voice.

 

[romanianreaper]

When I was a freshman in high school, we would go to the school dances and someone from our crowd would request "Swords and Tequila". All of the metalheads would attack the floor and air guitar our asses off. LOL. "Fire Down Under" as some have already mentioned, kicks ass. "Outlaw" is a great song. I think Riot captures that earlier 80s hard rock feel and tone before everything got really polished.

 

[stratjacket]

Same here.
Even wore a 'Fire Down Under' t-shirt to highschool for some years. Sold it a couple of years ago on Ebay.
I tried to get my band to cover 'Altar of the King' (I loved the intro), but alas, to no avail. "Too obscure".

Never got the seal either, and their 2nd album "Narita" does a good attempt for weirdest album cover ever. (Yes, weirder than "Rock City" even).
An English (because...well, lobster-sunburnt! ) sumo wrestler, wielding an axe , with a seal head standing in a field of skulls ...and a WWII bomber flying overhead after dropping some napalm near what may be Mt Fuji... like WTF!

Strange indeed. But made me recall a little of the stories I heard years ago when living in Japan about Narita airport. I didn’t remember the details other than there were a lot of people against building the airport in Narita.
Wonder if they are trying to depict the history?
https://www.messenger-inquirer.com/...cle_950ea06e-8b66-5a40-8326-ea6212f296c2.html

“An article in the Nashua Telegraph dated May 20, 1978 reported, “Some 13,000 riot police were mobilized to secure the airport against an estimated 15,000 demonstrators,” who were “throwing firebombs and rocks’’ as the police beat them back with water cannons. Vehicles burned. Power cables were sabotaged. Japanese air traffic stopped.”