Artist: RUNNING WILD
Album: RIDING THE STORM - THE NOISE YEARS 1983-1995 (2CD DIGI)

Release date: 2016
EAN/UPS: 4050538191547
Media type: CD

Riding The Storm (The Very Best Of The Noise Years 1983-1995) features killer tracks from Running Wild's 9 albums for Noise Riding The Storm is one of 8 new 2 CD and digital compilations released as part of the Noise Lebt reissue series. Each title features striking packaging in a stylish digipack with new sleevenotes featuring band interviews, photos and memorabilia. Formed in 1976 in Hamburg, Running Wild were originally influenced by the likes of Judas Priest, Kiss and AC/DC but found everlasting fame when they pioneered the entertaining pirate metal sub-genre after vocalist / guitarist Rolf Kasparek saw Roman Polanski's movie Pirates whilst writing a song called Under Jolly Roger for their 3rd studio album. While the historical lyrics were very superficial at first, the lyrics for later albums were intensively researched, by Rolf Kasparek in particular. In addition to lyrics about pirates like Calico Jack, Klaus Störtebeker, or the little-known Henry Jennings, the band also addressed subjects like the Wars of the Roses, the Battle of Waterloo, or the colonization of the New World by the Conquistadors.

CD1:

1     Victim of States Power
2     Genghis Khan
3     Prisoner of Our Time
4     Walpurgis Night
5     Branded and Exiled
6     Fight the Oppression
7     Chains and Leather
8     Under Jolly Roger
9     Beggar's Night
10     Diamonds of the Black Chest
11     Raw Ride
12     Intro / Port Royal
13     Uaschitschun
14     Final Gates
15     Conquistadores
16     Calico Jack

CD2:

1     Riding the Storm
2     Evilution
3     Bad to the Bone
4     Tortuga Bay
5     Blazon Stone
6     Little Big Horn
7     Over the Rainbow
8     Genocide
9     Whirlwind
10     Fistful of Dynamite
11     Pile of Skulls
12     Soulless
13     The Privateer
14     Fight the Fire of Hate
15     The Phantom of Black Hand Hill
16     Lions of the Sea