Rock City

by Riot

Rock City cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 10 November 1977
  • Label: Fire Sign
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 33:19
  • Community rating: 3.46/5 from 2 ratings

Artists on this release: Guy Speranza, Jimmy Iommi, Richard Alexander, Steve Loeb, Mark Reale, Peter Bitelli, Billy Arnell

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Bursting out of Brooklyn, this debut establishes the blueprint for American heavy metal with a blazing, high-energy blend of hard rock swagger and frantic, proto-speed metal riffing. Masterminded by guitarist Mark Reale, the album largely flew under the commercial radar upon release but slowly garnered a ferocious cult following overseas. It is retroactively viewed as a crucial, pioneering link between 1970s hard rock and the incoming New Wave of British Heavy Metal.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, rhythmic, arena rock, powerful, male-vocals

Tracklist

  1. Desperation (2:43)
  2. Warrior (3:50)
  3. Rock City (3:29)
  4. Overdrive (4:12)
  5. Angel (3:37)
  6. Tokyo Rose (4:20)
  7. Heart Of Fire (3:00)
  8. Gypsy Queen (3:56)
  9. This Is What I Get (4:09)

Credits

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