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Running Wild - Gates To Purgatory



7.9 | 208 votes |
Release date: 26 December 1984
Style: Heavy metal, Speed metal

Owners:

168 have it
12 want it


01. Victim Of States Power
02. Black Demon
03. Preacher
04. Soldiers Of Hell
05. Diabolical Force
06. Adrian S.O.S.
07. Genghis Khan
08. Prisoner Of Our Time
09. Chains & Leather [2018 remaster bonus]
10. Adrian [2018 remaster bonus]
11. Walpurgis Night (In The Sign Of Women's Fight) [2018 remaster bonus]
12. Satan [2018 remaster bonus]
13. Iron Heads [2018 remaster bonus]
14. Bones To Ashes [2018 remaster bonus]
15. Soldiers Of Hell [2018 remaster bonus]
16. Prisoner Of Our Time [2018 remaster bonus]

Additional info
Recorded at Caet Studio, Berlin, June 1984 by Horst Müller.
Produced by Running Wild.
Cover art by Running Wild.
Cover photos by D. Magnussen.

1991 Japanese edition of Gates To Purgatory coupled with Branded And Exiled and the two extra EP tracks.

Songs 9-10 taken from the Rock From Hell - German Metal Attack sampler.
Songs 11-12 are 12'' single B-sides
Songs 13-14 from the Death Metal sampler.
Songs 15-16 from the The First Years Of Piracy re-recorded tracks compilation.

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Comments

Comments: 8   Visited by: 222 users
29.04.2013 - 20:01
Lião
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One of the best heavy metal album I've listened in months. Pounding drums, crushing guitar riffs, double vocals and almost anything necessary to call a metal album "excellent".
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19.01.2015 - 23:17
Rating: 10
Kreator22

Amazing album. It's the most chillest heavy metal I have ever listened to.
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06.06.2016 - 16:06
Rating: 8
Joppe
Steelemeister
A great debut and definitely not a typical Running Wild album. No other RW album sounds close to this and maybe it's a good thing, because it makes this album stand out as the only true old school speed metal album from their discography. These faster tracks "Victim Of States Power", "Soldiers Of Hell", "Diabolic Force", "Adrian S.O.S." are the obvious highlights here with "Prisoner Of Our Time" of course. As not the biggest fan of this production, there must a remaster out there somewhere available...
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03.04.2017 - 20:51
Rating: 9
DeathMetal

Very surprised how much I enjoyed this album. Easily one of my all time favourites now.
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15.11.2017 - 12:58
Rating: 5
Bad English
Tage Westerlund
Classic peace, but I like song concept in later RW, musically some people say its pure true HM, well let it be, even there are no such thing, but its pure old school.
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I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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06.01.2021 - 10:36
Rating: 6
majormalfunction

Reminds me a lot of Grave Diggers debut album though not as iconic. The whole satanic theme makes the album feel outdated but there's no denying they already here knew how to riff.
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06.01.2021 - 12:37
Rating: 8
Joppe
Steelemeister
Written by majormalfunction on 06.01.2021 at 10:36

The whole satanic theme makes the album feel outdated


True, this theme is total cliche in speed and 1st wave BM and after the garbage audio quality the second biggest weakness of this album IMO. Pirates > Satan Wearing Leather
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06.01.2021 - 20:49
Rating: 6
majormalfunction

Written by Joppe on 06.01.2021 at 12:37

True, this theme is total cliche in speed and 1st wave BM and after the garbage audio quality the second biggest weakness of this album IMO. Pirates > Satan Wearing Leather


Totally agree!
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