O.K., maybe i was a little harsh on Accept's 'Balls To The Wall' album, but this is a completely differant story.

'Restless And Wild' is the finest album from Accept, not overrated like 'Balls' is, this was probably as heavy as you could get in 82. The overall feeling of this album is very raw and heavy, yet at the same time melodic because of Wolf Hoffmann's classically influenced guitar chops. Even though the production is somewhat primative, the music more then makes up for it in sheer brutallity, i actually prefer the low qaulity production of this as opposed to the over-produced albums Accept would churn out latter in their career. This album gets a lot of credit for being one of the first "thrash" albums, this is mainly because of the first song "Fast As A Shark", which was one of the fastest tunes of that time period, infact, i don't think there was anything THIS fast or intense by ANY metal band back in the pre-Slayer days. Beyond that song you will find even better ones, like the crunchy title track and the frantic "Ahead Of The Pack". The song "Shake your Head" is average headbanging fair, but ending side-one is the fantastic "Neon Nights", it is my favorite Accept song of all time, very atmospheric and epic. Side-two starts with "Get Ready", a catchy little filler song that is all right, then comes "Deamon's Night" which is probably the most underrated Accept song ever written, it is just so effing heavy and agressive! "Flash Rocking Man" is an Accept staple and got played all of the time in their live sets. "Don't Go Stealing My Soul Away" is a attempt at the charts, i don't like it very much, sounds too much like AC/DC. The final song is "Princess Of The Dawn", it was meant to be a concept song and sounds like nothing else these guys have ever done, it is a great number but i wish the mixing engineer or whoever didn't abruptly cut the song off at the end, kinda ruins the qaulity of it.

I wish they countiued in the direction that this album displayed, it would of been great, instead of trying to become a Scorpions ripp-off band like what they did with their next two albums. I guess the success of the Scorpions became a role- modle for all of the german bands trying to make it big.
O. K., maybe i was a little harsh on Accept's 'Balls To The Wall' album, but this is a completely differant story. 'Restless And Wild' is the finest album from Accept, not overrated like 'Balls' is, this was probably as heavy as you could get in 82. The overall feeling of this album is very raw and heavy, yet at the same time melodic because of Wolf Hoffmann's classically influenced guitar chops. Even though the production is somewhat primative, the music more then makes up for it in sheer brutallity, i actually prefer the low qaulity production of this as opposed to the over-produced albums Accept would churn out latter in their career. This album gets a lot of credit for being one of the first "thrash" albums, this is mainly because of the first song "Fast As A Shark", which was one of the fastest tunes of that time period, infact, i don't think there was anything THIS fast or intense by ANY metal band back in the pre-Slayer days. Beyond that song you will find even better ones, like the crunchy title track and the frantic "Ahead Of The Pack". The song "Shake your Head" is average headbanging fair, but ending side-one is the fantastic "Neon Nights", it is my favorite Accept song of all time, very atmospheric and epic. Side-two starts with "Get Ready", a catchy little filler song that is all right, then comes "Deamon's Night" which is probably the most underrated Accept song ever written, it is just so effing heavy and agressive! "Flash Rocking Man" is an Accept staple and got played all of the time in their live sets. "Don't Go Stealing My Soul Away" is a attempt at the charts, i don't like it very much, sounds too much like AC/DC. The final song is "Princess Of The Dawn", it was meant to be a concept song and sounds like nothing else these guys have ever done, it is a great number but i wish the mixing engineer or whoever didn't abruptly cut the song off at the end, kinda ruins the qaulity of it. I wish they countiued in the direction that this album displayed, it would of been great, instead of trying to become a Scorpions ripp-off band like what they did with their next two albums. I guess the success of the Scorpions became a role- modle for all of the german bands trying to make it big.