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Blue vinyl with printed innersleeve. Limited 350 numbered copies

Royl Hunt’s first album is quite different from their latter day efforts. Certainly it will take by surprise those fans who heard the band from Paradoxx onwards. The sound here is more on the melodious hard rock side, with little metal or prog influences. Still many of the group classics are here, like their first hit, Running Wild, Stranded and Flight. The production is surprisingly good for such an obscure and unknown act to emerge from Denmark. Russian keyboards player, occasional guitarist and songwriter Andre Andersen proves he have the knack to write simple, catchy rock songs with a European twist and classical music influences here and there. Singer Henrik Brockmann has a raspy voice that works fine here. I still think that D C Cooper and John West are much more versatile and better singers, but then the music had changed and the vocal approach had to follow. Unlike Epilogue, their second album (and last with Brockmann on vocals) this one does not have a single track that hints what Royal Hunt would become in a few years. Looking back, maybe The title track can be seen as a blueprint for the future direction, but that is debatable. Overall, I can say that this is a very good debut album that all Royal Hunt fans should own. Okay, the music is rawer in nature than the later works, but all of them have great ingredients for their future reference.

“Fly forever and try cross over the sky – Feelin’ the wind blow. Cry for losers who died, They watchin’ you fly – over the rainbow.” – “Flight” by Royal Hunt

Track list:
1. Running Wild
2. Easy Rider
3. Flight
4. Age Gone Wild
5. Martial Arts-instrumental
6. One By One
7. Heart Of The City
8. Land Of Broken Hearts
9. Freeway Jam-instrumental
10. Kingdom Dark
11. Stranded
12. Day In Day Out
13. Bad Luck