Special Limited Deluxe Collector's Edition / Fully remastered sound shaped from 24 BIT digital technology / Six bonus tracks / Six million sales / Features `Cum On Feel The Noise', `Metal Health' and `Slick Black Cadillac' / 16 page full colour booklet - 4,000 word essay, enhanced artwork, memorabilia, rare photos and full band involvement.

FOR A WHILE there, back in 1983/84, Quiet Riot were arguably the biggest band in the world.

Not something many music critics like to acknowledge, but the fact is they spearheaded the wave of Los Angeles rock and metal acts which would change the face of music on both a national and international level.

They were actually the frontrunners in a movement which would transform the American charts from new wave to Metal, and sway the rock pendulum away from British heavy metal to American hair metal - yes, an insulting term maybe, but a convenient label to characterise all that was to follow.

It's easy to sit back now and feel that they made it on the back of covering a riotous (sic) Slade track - `Cum On Feel The Noize' - but with royalty cheques in hand Noddy Holder and Jim Lea were surely not complaining, and neither were the millions of people who bought the `Metal Health' album.

And at the last count there were over six million of them! It's easy to forget too, that guitarist extraordinaire Randy Rhoads was once a member of the band before taking up a position in Ozzy Osbourne's Blizzard Of Oz, paving the way for Carlos Cavazo, Frankie Banali, Rudy Sarzo and outrageous front man Kevin DuBrow to pick up the pieces.

Originally issued in 1983, `Metal Health' remains a classic slice of American metal