RUNNING WILD — Death or Glory (review)

RUNNING WILD — Death or Glory album cover Album · 1989 · Power Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4/5 ·
Stephen
"Death or Glory" is the fifth release by German's pirate metal heroes, Running Wild, and classified as one of their most successful releases. Inside this album, you'll find a lot of high quality headbangable tunes and plenty of classic and memorable heavy metal riffage performed by Peter Jordan and Rolf Kasparek himself. This is truly a remarkable record to close the 80s decade, a better effort compared to their prior album, "Port Royal", and I heard an improvement on the musicianship, including the vocal quality of Rolf Kasparek.

My fave tracks here are "Riding The Storm", you will witness an amazing killer riffs combined with harmonic solos, this track was almost included on their concert setlist rotation all the time, together with "Bad To The Bone", which I though is their best track here. The infectious hooks, the perfectly constructed verse and chorus, and the blazing aura of the song is just stunning. Some tracks have a regular heavy metal pattern which is very familiar to the fans such as "Renegade", "Running Blood", and the title track. They're all great but tracks like the Judas-Priest-influenced "Marooned" and the epic war soundtrack of "Battle of Waterloo" are better in my opinion. I only found two pointless fillers here which are the instrumental "Highland Glory" and the closer, "March On".

"Death Or Glory" is a pleasant heavy metal journey and I agree if this is considered as one of their best. Most of the tracks here are enjoyable, especially if you're a big fan of the genre, but that doesn't stop many casual rock fans to love this one too. An essential release to buy and at least, a big four-stars is fully deserved for such an amazing attempt!
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