10 Hard Rock & Metal Bands With No Original Members Left

10. RIOT

RIOT tends to be one of the more overlooked acts of the golden age of rock and roll. Being birthed around the same time as other New York natives like KISS, the music coming from these guys was a lot more muscly than their contemporaries, with Fire Down Under and Narita being considered underground classics. However, maybe the reason they couldn't settle into a groove was their constantly shifting lineup.

In the first version of the band, Guy Sparanza was the main sonic force behind the mic, with a delivery that was greatly influenced by the bluesy acts of the time. After a few years of slogging it out though, Guy abruptly quit, leaving RIOT to move forward with Rhett Forester, who had the right amount of grit to compete with acts like AC/DC. As the years went on, you practically needed a scorecard to keep track of everyone leaving, with no less than 5 vocalists and 7 drummers coming and going throughout the years.

Though the sole original member Mark Reale had been the common thread among the group, things took a dark turn when Reale died in 2012 after a long battle with Crohn's Disease. As a new version of RIOT takes to the hard rock circuit, this is nowhere near the kind of band we started out with.