Running Wild Gates To Purgatory LP Private Metal 1st Press VG+ Venom Noise 1984

$

26

Killer 1st album from Germany's mighty metal force, Running Wild. Original 1st pressing from 1984. German pressing. In really nice used condition. Overall VG+/VG+, if not better. Vinyl and cover are both in really nice shape (see photos). Check out my other auctions for more Running Wild & other cool stuff. Will combine shipping on multiple wins...

Review (from encyclopedia metallum):

Like that picture circulating around the Internet with the fat kid with no shirt on raising his arms... this album RUUUULES!!!!

This is classic speed metal. Imagine a really polished, Teutonic-sounding Venom. This is from before Running Wild decided to get all 'Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum' on our ass (not that that era is bad - most everything they've done is pretty fucking great). This is actually rawer in production than their later efforts, and that's actually quite appealing. Sometimes their later efforts seem to have the drums cranked up a bit too much (see Blazon Stone, etc) but on this one, the guitars are well in place and the riffs are spectacular, and every once in a while they throw in a solo or a riff-set that is totally reminiscent of Judas Priest or Accept.

And then, you have to realise, that for 1984, this is actually pretty fast and heavy. Who else was blazing out stuff like this at that time? Freewheel Burning, Fast as a Shark, and really not much else. There were bands like Venom, but Venom never threw in cute little Screaming for Vengeance style solos like at the end of Diabolic Force - man, that song RUUUULES!!! From that ending solo, to the awesome shriek in between verse lines - YEEEAARRRGGHH!!!! - to that blazing Highway Star on Amphetamines riff under the chorus.

And the dragon comes in the night!! Oh yeah... and that's just one song. There's also the ultrafast (I mean really fucking fast) Adrian, Son of Satan - that's four minutes of music squeezed into three minutes of physical time. Insert here something about the relativistic effects of playing so fucking fast. Also, the opener is very very speedish as well. How! Long do you want to be! A victim! Of state's power and force!

Stand up! And struggle for freedom!!

AND BE LUCIFER'S FRIEND!

Fuck yeah!!! Then, don't forget the midpaced anthemic numbers. This could've been a Judas Priest album, except Judas Priest didn't sing about BLACK DEMON!! But Prisoner of Our Time is a total answer to the unasked (at the time) question. Rock Hard, Ride Free?

Rockers of the underground - black and heavy is our sound!! Then throw in Genghis Khan and Soldiers of Hell, which also sound like they were heavily influenced by the Killers LP, as well as the obligatory Sad Wings through Screaming, the first few Accept, Diamond Head, Blitzkrieg, etc etc. All that good stuff.

Should you get this album? Nah, classic metal sucks. Keep jerking off t