Artist: ACCEPT
Album: RESTLESS AND WILD VINYL (LP)

Year: 1982/ 2009
Media type: LP

Restless and Wild is the fourth album by the German heavy metal band Accept, released in 1982. 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. The guitar on the finished product is done by Wolf Hoffmann and the new gitarist Jan Koemmet.

The album is best known for the opening track, "Fast as a Shark", considered among the first speed metal songs.

Another well-known track is album closer "Princess Of The Dawn", a tense Gothic 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."

A1 Fast As A Shark  3:48 
A2 Restless And Wild  4:10 
A3 Ahead Of The Pack  3:22 
A4 Shake Your Heads  4:00 
A5 Neon Nights  6:00 

B1 Get Ready  3:49 
B2 Demon's Night  4:34 
B3 Flash Rockin' Man  4:24 
B4 Don't Go Stealing My Soul Away  3:15 
B5 Princess Of The Dawn  6:15