RUNNING WILD — Death or Glory (review)

RUNNING WILD — Death or Glory album cover Album · 1989 · Power Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
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Glory or glory...

Genre: pirate metal, mate

I am going to stick my neck out and give this five stars. "Death or Glory" is a metal classic and captures almost everything which is good about the classic metal of the 80s, such as kick ass riffage, rock 'n' roll guitar solos, a great sense of melody, big sound, guitar harmonies, epicness and larger than life lyrical concepts.... pirates, mate... savvy?

Maybe this sounds terribly cliche-ish to some, and perhaps it is, but, remember that such cliches were an integral part of traditional 80s metal, and one of the challenges back then was to convey these cliches in

First off, this album is a pure riff-fest, and you will find awesome hard rocking riffs in tracks like "Renegade" (the main riff), "Evilution" (the chorus), "Bad to the Bone" (all riffage) while most of the other tracks are full of Rock 'n' Rolf's trademark melodic tremolo power/speed metal riffs.

What I particularly like about this album is its epicness, its bigness. I mean many tracks have big, epic introductions, such as "Riding the Storm", "Evilution", "Running Blood", "Death or Glory" and the epic war song "Battle of Waterloo" and the instrumental "Highland Glory (The Eternal Fight)" is just biiiiig and epic all the way through.

This album harbors (savvy?) some of the finest pirate metal tracks known to metalking, such as "Tortuga Bay", "Marooned" (I love the hoh-hoh-hoh-hoooh choir in the chorus), "Riding the Storm" and "Death or Glory".

Rock 'n' Rolf would kick Jack Sparrow's ass anytime, so if you consider yourself a true metalhead and a pirate-fan, check out this album, because it is one of the best metal albums from the late 1980s. Savvy?
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