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Running Wild - Blazon Stone



8.3 | 231 votes |
Release date: 4 April 1991
Style: Heavy metal, Speed metal

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01. Blazon Stone
02. Lone Wolf
03. Slavery
04. Fire And Ice
05. Little Big Horn
06. Over The Rainbow
07. White Masque
08. Rolling Wheels
09. Bloody Red Rose
10. Straight To Hell
11. Heads Or Tails
12. Billy The Kid [Japanese bonus]
13. Genocide [Thin Lizzy cover]
14. Dancing On A Minefield [USA bonus]

Additional info
Produced by Rolf "Rock 'N' Rolf" Kasparek.
Executive production by Karl-U. Walterbach.
Engineered and mixed by Jan Nemec.
Artwork, photography by Horst Herrndorff, Andreas Marschall and Thorsten Herbig.

Recorded and mixed at Studio M, Machtsum Dec.'90 - Jan.'91.

Staff review by
Undercraft
Rating:
8.0
Another re-release by Century Media Brazil for South America, this time we have another fine piece of music by German legends, Running Wild and this, their seventh album is being re-mastered for the occasion.

With all due respect that this band deserve, I never been a fan of them, as a matter of fact, I found them boring. I know I've raised some eyebrows with this comment, but what can I do? I can't lie, I never been a fan of traditional Heavy Metal, never liked Manowar, Saxon, Running Wild among others.

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published 07.10.2004 | Comments (0)

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Comments: 4   Visited by: 179 users
08.06.2016 - 07:38
Rating: 8
Joppe
Steelemeister
Kinda pretty good, but at the same time kinda disappointing album. It's hard to pinpoint an one single thing why this album doesn't feel like a true Running Wild classic; maybe the biggest reason would be simply that this album doesn't have as much classic RW songs as their strongest albums have, but there is other reasons too. Musically the album is pretty good, Rolf's vocals sound decent though not his strongest performance and Jens is great on bass, as can be heard in "Over The Rainbow". One definitely positive thing here though are the guitars, especially the riffs by Rolf and Axel; IMO this is the best guitar duo ever in RW to produce such fast and memorable stuff. Now I'm not a professional drummer to make a qualified statement about someones playing, but I'm still gonna claim that this AC guy on drums wasn't a professional either, since his playing sounds very basic, safe and pretty boring (which is disappointing to listen to after Finlay's playing on "DoG").

There seems a change in songwriting, which is going more in to the direction of heavy and traditional metal and even hard rock. So the songs here are more repetitive and focused on a certain riff or a couple of strong riffs and giving lots of emphasis to choruses that in some songs works and in other songs it gets pretty annoying. Therefore it's easy to say that the songs here are generally less interesting, varying and epic than on "PR" and "DoG".

So it's not really a bad album. It's easy to return to listen to this even if it's only for the guitars of "White Masque" or "Straight to hell" and of course the album has such classic songs as "Blazon Stone" and "Little Big Horn", and some other solid tracks like "Bloody Red Rose" and "Heads or Tails". As a conclusions, after two amazing albums I can only say that the album is a bit of a disappointment.
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14.02.2018 - 05:46
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Written by Joppe on 08.06.2016 at 07:38

Kinda pretty good, but at the same time kinda disappointing album. It's hard to pinpoint an one single thing why this album doesn't feel like a true Running Wild classic; maybe the biggest reason would be simply that this album doesn't have as much classic RW songs as their strongest albums have, but there is other reasons too. Musically the album is pretty good, Rolf's vocals sound decent though not his strongest performance and Jens is great on bass, as can be heard in "Over The Rainbow". One definitely positive thing here though are the guitars, especially the riffs by Rolf and Axel; IMO this is the best guitar duo ever in RW to produce such fast and memorable stuff. Now I'm not a professional drummer to make a qualified statement about someones playing, but I'm still gonna claim that this AC guy on drums wasn't a professional either, since his playing sounds very basic, safe and pretty boring (which is disappointing to listen to after Finlay's playing on "DoG").

There seems a change in songwriting, which is going more in to the direction of heavy and traditional metal and even hard rock. So the songs here are more repetitive and focused on a certain riff or a couple of strong riffs and giving lots of emphasis to choruses that in some songs works and in other songs it gets pretty annoying. Therefore it's easy to say that the songs here are generally less interesting, varying and epic than on "PR" and "DoG".

So it's not really a bad album. It's easy to return to listen to this even if it's only for the guitars of "White Masque" or "Straight to hell" and of course the album has such classic songs as "Blazon Stone" and "Little Big Horn", and some other solid tracks like "Bloody Red Rose" and "Heads or Tails". As a conclusions, after two amazing albums I can only say that the album is a bit of a disappointment.


reading this what is RW strongest? this is IMO best, of the best. whole peace are strong, riffs, vocals, lyrics, basically its all RW classic.
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19.02.2018 - 17:24
Rating: 8
Joppe
Steelemeister
Written by Bad English on 14.02.2018 at 05:46

Written by Joppe on 08.06.2016 at 07:38

Kinda pretty good, but at the same time kinda disappointing album. It's hard to pinpoint an one single thing why this album doesn't feel like a true Running Wild classic; maybe the biggest reason would be simply that this album doesn't have as much classic RW songs as their strongest albums have, but there is other reasons too. Musically the album is pretty good, Rolf's vocals sound decent though not his strongest performance and Jens is great on bass, as can be heard in "Over The Rainbow". One definitely positive thing here though are the guitars, especially the riffs by Rolf and Axel; IMO this is the best guitar duo ever in RW to produce such fast and memorable stuff. Now I'm not a professional drummer to make a qualified statement about someones playing, but I'm still gonna claim that this AC guy on drums wasn't a professional either, since his playing sounds very basic, safe and pretty boring (which is disappointing to listen to after Finlay's playing on "DoG").

There seems a change in songwriting, which is going more in to the direction of heavy and traditional metal and even hard rock. So the songs here are more repetitive and focused on a certain riff or a couple of strong riffs and giving lots of emphasis to choruses that in some songs works and in other songs it gets pretty annoying. Therefore it's easy to say that the songs here are generally less interesting, varying and epic than on "PR" and "DoG".

So it's not really a bad album. It's easy to return to listen to this even if it's only for the guitars of "White Masque" or "Straight to hell" and of course the album has such classic songs as "Blazon Stone" and "Little Big Horn", and some other solid tracks like "Bloody Red Rose" and "Heads or Tails". As a conclusions, after two amazing albums I can only say that the album is a bit of a disappointment.


reading this what is RW strongest? this is IMO best, of the best. whole peace are strong, riffs, vocals, lyrics, basically its all RW classic.


I used to think so too for some time, about UJR too, until after many more listens UJR and BS just fell off and PR, DoG and BHI stood out as favorites. First impressions can be deceiving.
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17.01.2021 - 19:49
Rating: 8
majormalfunction

Better than I remember. I had a memory of a quite filler filled record but that's not the case. Solid stuff all around with some excellent songs thrown in. The fast paced chorus of White Masque is lovely, Rolling Wheels is a heavy one with really cool verses. Both Slavery and Fire & Ice are strong songs which seems forgotten. Then of course there's the two obvious highlights in Little Big Horn and the title track. All in all very good record with a nice heavy production.
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