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Without a doubt, the best Running Wild album of all times. Everything in this album is so damned perfect...! Even the bonus tracks included in the re-release that often are leftovers from studio sessions, re-recordings or similar things, are in this case great songs. An untypical cover art with two separate pictures greets the eye when grabbing the album. The back cover features the band with tons of rivets per inch of leather, impossible to look more metal. The band: Jens Becker delivering solid bass lines, Iain Finlay setting the pace towards hell with their advanced skills and their rich style of playing; Majk Moti and Rolf performing awesome guitar melodies, clean and lethal, walls of the sound castle defended by Rolf´s voice that is rawer than ever. The sound also helps to this sensation of grandiosity, mighty and perfect. One can easily realize that inspiration has touched the band when composing these songs, until the point that something that Running Wild had in most of their releases –filling songs- can´t be found here. Each song is by itself a treasure, even a weird instrumental song created mainly by Jens Becker that is very beautiful, different from what Running Wild used to play. Outstanding tracks? Hard to choose, but “Riding the storm” can´t be ignored, what a song to start an album! Also “Bad to the bone”, a classic song of the band at concerts, or rapid “Tortuga Bay”, could be quoted in this praise, because all this album is a brilliant piece of true heavy metal. Final track “March on” is a personal favourite, I admit that its chorus is a personal affinity, it´s so immense, pounding, heavy. “Death or Glory” is a varied album with song intros based on accoustic guitars or even bagpipes (on “The battle of Waterloo”), and this variety is also reflected on lyrics where Rolf sing about “politics against politics”, spitting to the face of the scumdogs, Waterloo, Danish pirate Störtebecker (great song, by the way!), the heavy metal way of life, pirates, etc. Running Wild defined what heavy metal could stand for with this album: solid, great, melodic, powerful. Nothing more to say, much more to listen! If you love heavy metal you will surely love this.
| Tracklist |
| 1. Riding The Storm |
| 2. Renegade |
| 3. Evilution |
| 4. Running Blood |
| 5. Highland Glory (The Eternal Fight) |
| 6. Marooned |
| 7. Bad To The Bone |
| 8. Tortuga Bay |
| 9. Death Or Glory |
| 10. Battle Of Waterloo |
| 11. March On |
| Bonus tracks: |
| 12. Wild Animal |
| 13. Chains & Leather |
| 14. Tear Down The Walls |
| 15. Störtebecker |
: 72.36
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