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Fire Down Under

Artist Riot Released 1981 Type album

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The only Riot record held here. 1981 puts it two years ahead of the genre it is filed under: this tree dates US power metal from 1983. It is one of the four records US power metal is listed as starting from.

From Wikipedia

Fire Down Under is the third studio album by American heavy metal band Riot, released in 1981, it's the last album to feature original vocalist Guy Speranza. The song "Flashbacks" is dedicated to Neal Kay, a British DJ who supported heavy metal in the UK during the new wave of British heavy metal.

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