Narita (album)

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{{Infobox album

| name = Narita

| type = Album

| artist = Riot

| cover = Narita Riot cover.jpg

| alt =

| released = 5 October 1979

| recorded = April–June 1979

| venue =

| studio = Big Apple Recording Studio, New York City

| genre = Heavy metal

| length = 43:15

| label = Victor (Japan), Capitol

| producer = Steve Loeb and Billy Arnell

| prev_title = Rock City

| prev_year = 1977

| next_title = Fire Down Under

| next_year = 1981

}}

{{Music ratings

| rev1 =AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}{{cite web | url = http://www.allmusic.com/album/narita-r48035/credits | title = Riot Narita review | accessdate = September 1, 2011 | last = Rivadavia | first = Eduardo | publisher = Allmusic}}

| rev2 = Billboard

| rev2Score = (favourable){{cite magazine|url=https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/80s/1980/BB-1980-08-02.pdf|title=Review: Narita – Riot|magazine=Billboard|date=August 2, 1980|accessdate=May 24, 2020|volume=85|number=31|page=58|via=American Radio History|issn=0006-2510}}

| noprose = yes

}}

Narita is the second studio album by the American heavy metal band Riot.{{cite AV media notes |title=Narita |others=Riot |year=1979 |type=LP Sleeve |publisher=Capitol Records SN-16271 |location=Los Angeles, California}} The album was initially released in 1979. It became out of print in the late 1980s and was only being pressed in CD format in Japan in 1989 until the early 1990s. It was finally issued on CD outside Japan in 2005 by UK-based Rock Candy Records, run by former Kerrang! writers Derek Oliver and Dante Bonutto.

'Narita' was also the name of a short-lived San Antonio, Texas-based Riot offshoot, featuring guitarist Mark Reale along with former S.A. Slayer members vocalist Steve Cooper, drummer Dave McClain, and bassist Don Van Stavern, who would later appear on the Thundersteel and The Privilege of Power albums and is a member of Riot V. They recorded a three-song demo in 1985, including an early version of "Thundersteel", before Reale reformed Riot in 1986.