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Double cd in digipak

Riding The Storm (The Very Best Of The Noise Years 1983-1995) features killer tracks from Running Wild’s 9 albums for Noise. Formed in 1976 in Hamburg, Running Wild were originally influenced by the likes of Judas Priest, Kiss and Ac/dc but found everlasting fame when they pioneered the entertaining pirate metal sub-genre after vocalist / guitarist Rolf Kasparek saw Roman Polanski’s movie Pirates whilst writing a song called Under Jolly Roger for their third studio album. While the historical lyrics were very superficial at first, the lyrics for later albums were intensively researched, by Rolf Kasparek in particular. In addition to lyrics about pirates like Calico Jack, Klaus Störtebeker, or the little-known Henry Jennings, the band also addressed subjects like the Wars Of The Roses, The Battle Of Waterloo or the colonization of the New World by the Conquistadors.

Track list:
1. Victim Of States Power
2. Genghis Khan
3. Prisoner Of Our Time
4. Walpurgis Night
5. Branded And Exiled
6. Fight The Oppression
7. Chains And Leather
8. Under Jolly Roger
9. Beggars Night
10. Diamonds Of The Black Chest
11. Raw Ride
12. Intro/Port Royal
13. Uaschitschun
14. Final Gates
15. Conquistadores
16. Calico Jack
17. Riding The Storm
18. Evilution
19. Bad To The Bone
20. Tortuga Bay
21. Blazon Stone
22. Little Big Horn
23. Over The Rainbow
24. Genocide
25. Whirlwind
26. Fistful Of Dynamite
27. Pile Of Skulls
28. Soulless
29. The Privateer
30. Fight The Fire Of Hate
31. The Phantom Of Black Hand Hill
32. Lions Of The Sea