666sharon666 Victory is the eleventh Running Wild album from 2000. The last album in their good versus evil trilogy sees the band dropping most of the power metal sound that they'd stuck with since 1987's Under Jolly Roger and becoming, more or less, a straight traditional metal act. There are still a few power metal elements here and will continue to be on further albums, but overall this one marks a new chapter in the band's career. And not one for the better.

Actually that's not fair, as there is nothing wrong with being a traditional heavy metal act. Running Wild always were a heavy metal band along with first a speed metal and then a power metal band. They've made a great number of excellent heavy metal songs over the years. Victory just happens to also be the point where Rock 'n' Rolf and his ever changing crew of bandmates seemed to run out of creative steam. It's not a bad album by any means, just rather bland, but I think it was definitely their weakest at the time it was released, with further releases also proving it to mark a turn for the worse, with only diminishing returns to come until the band's split in 2009. Since reforming in 2011 things haven't been much better either. One day I hope Running Wild manages to reach the heights of their best work again, otherwise starting here their output is like a stain on an otherwise quite excellent legacy. And I find that rather sad.

1967/ 1976 If I speak about Runnig Wild I speak about a great band. But I speak about "Victory" I speak about a poor album. Or maybe a not great album.

The start is in Priest's "Painkiller" style... Same style of "Painkiller" only few melodic. For the rest Rock/ Hard'm'Heavy song, not emotional, not technical, without magic. Only "Revolution" (Beatles cover" is good, for me, because pure Power Metal. Certainly "Victory" is a simple album...: guitars, vocals, energy... But in my opinion "Victory" is not an album of a great Metal God... And because of this "Victory" is not a winner album, for me.

In the media of the media!!!

(P.s.: I don't have other words!!!)