Gates to Purgatory
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| Running Wild studio album | ||||
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Publication |
1984 |
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June 1984 |
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| Label (s) | Noise Records , SPV GmbH | |||
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Format (s) |
LP, Picture Disc |
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Title (number) |
8th |
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Running wild |
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Studio (s) |
Caet Studio |
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Gates to Purgatory is the debut album by the German band Running Wild . The album can be assigned to Heavy Metal or Speed Metal and was released in 1984 by Noise Records .
Emergence
In 1983 the band recorded the song Adrian (SOS) for the compilation Rock from Hell , and live versions of Genghis Khan and Soldiers of Hell were released on the unofficial demo tape Heavy Metal Like a Hammerblow . In June 1984, Gates to Purgatory was recorded by Horst Müller at Caet Studio. The guitar runs were recorded twice. The band itself took on the production using the DMM process.
Track list
- Victim of States Power - 3:36
- Black Demon - 4:25
- Preacher - 4:22
- Soldiers of Hell - 3:23
- Diabolic Force - 4:58
- Adrian SOS - 2:49
- Genghis Khan - 4:11
- Prisoner of Our Time - 5:22
In 1988 the album was released on CD, with the release of the songs Walpurgis Night (which ends abruptly due to the condition of the master tape) and Satan from the EP Victims of State Power .
Reviews
Bert Banger from the German Metal Hammer described Gates to Purgatory as "one of the best Heavy Metal records that I put through my hearing aid this year"; not because of the speed, but "precisely because this LP is more varied than the usual" Bläck Meddel "pressings"; the musicians had shown “after the slightly unsuccessful debut on the“ Rock from Hell ”and“ Death Metal ”samplers“ that they are able to work absolutely professionally if only given the opportunity. ”Also an idea of running wild in the bands section in the MH portrait emphasized their technical progress and "[d] ate black metal [...] can be more than high-speed tirades". The assignment to Black Metal was made because of the occult texts; because of this, the musicians were said to be satanists . As with many other metal bands of the 1980s, these rumors were not true; the lyrics contradicted the beliefs of the then guitarist Preacher: While the Metal Hammer described him as a “satanic thought leader”, Preacher studied theology and later became a Protestant pastor in Cologne.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c PT. I - THE BEGINNING .
- ↑ a b c Bert Banger: Running Wild . “Gates To Puratory” [sic!]. In: Metal Hammer , No. 10, 1984, p. 69.
- ↑ a b RUNNING WILD . In: Metal Hammer , No. 10, 1984, p. 11.