RUNNING WILD — Blazon Stone (review)

RUNNING WILD — Blazon Stone album cover Album · 1991 · Power Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3.5/5 ·
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Blazon Stone is the sixth Running Wild album from 1991. It is the first of two major releases by the band during the year as they also decided to release the re-recordings album The First Years of Piracy a few months later. Although Blazon Stone is their main release for 1991 I can't help but think that The First Years of Piracy ended up being the more interesting album by Running Wild in 1991.

The reason for this is that although Blazon Stone is very much a business as usual release for Running Wild there are very few tracks here that really manage to stand out among the band's best works. The only ones that I find at all memorable are the title track, Lonewolf and Little Big Horn. The music is still good, with more of their traditional heavy metal side to be heard than their last album Death or Glory had. but overall Blazon Stone is an album I find to be a weak link in the band's otherwise pretty strong 90's work and a massive decline in quality after Death or Glory, which I find to be one of their best albums. 3.5 stars.
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adg211288 wrote:
more than 2 years ago
To be honest, I think the single b-side Billy the Kid that is a bonus track on the version I have is better than anything that made the cut for the main album.

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