If the intro does not tell you something then the blazing speed of ‘Masquerade’ will. Oh, yes, we have fire in the cannons again in 1995! Same line-up from their past album and it seems the thing of bringing back the Speed Metal elements have worked as this is top Speed / Power Metal, and […]
This, my friends, is what a band needs to do once in a while. For their 8th album, and for reasons unknown (although I can think of some, regaining fans I guess), the band returned to a sound more in the style of their early albums, still with the sound they have gained, and drifting […]
"Pile Of Skulls" is the 7th album in the history of this German Metal band, not counting the compilation “The First Years Of Piracy” which were re-recordings of early songs with the line-up of this album. I will not deny that “Gates To Purgatory” marked my youth for their incredible way of being, at least […]
This is the sixth album of RUNNING WILD, released back in 1991, and pretty much still in the same style they did for a while after their debut, and that is magnificent Speed Metal with many Power Metal touches. Yes, they do not mention “Satan!” anymore but they took the Pirate thing seriously, and for […]
Noise Records are on a re-release frenzy of their good old Metal bands, delivering freshly pressed releases, with nice bonus material for the masses. This time around we have reached the reich of Rock’n’Rolf Kasparek and the godly RUNNING WILD. Who is into Epic German Heavy Metal, without worshipping these guys? I don’t think there […]
Hamburg, Germany’s RUNNING WILD have reissued multiple classic albums with bonus tracks for those of you who need to discover them for the first time, or rediscover them with extra material. Taking their name from a JUDAS PRIEST song of the same name in 1979, RUNNING WILD have blessed us with four decades of Power […]
So here we have the deluxe expanded edition Noise Records recently released of another RUNNING WILD classic. You may enjoy more or less their later works, but what a force to be reckoned with this band was back in the eighties (and nineties for that matter)! Their early albums are monuments of Heavy Metal, full […]
In 1984, RUNNING WILD had released “Gates To Purgatory”, an enormously important album, not only for me personally, but also for German Heavy Metal in general. Not even one year later, the band announced a second album. Still impressed by the debut album, my expectations were very high. Thus “Branded And Exiled” became the most […]
RUNNING WILD is the band that was inevitable for any Heavy Metal fan who grew up in the 1980s in (West) Germany. Sooner or later, everybody into the heaviest music on earth listened to the band from Hamburg, mostly sooner. Rock’n’Rolf and his changing allies were the gateway to Metal for a generation of young […]
GRAVDAL is a Black Metal outfit from Norway. Curious enough, their third release "Kadaverin" sounds way different than what I was expecting in the first place. I went back and searched for their first two full-length albums and all I can say is that the band has definitely evolved. First off, the production sets this […]