RUNNING WILD Issue Lyric Video For New Track ‘The Shellback’
September 24th, 2021
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Hamburg, Germany-based heavy metal band Running Wild have released an official lyric video for the track ‘The Shellback’. Created by Ingo Spörl (Hard Media), the clip can be viewed below.
Running Wild issue 17th full-length studio album Blood On Blood on October 29th, 2021 through Steamhammer / SPV.
Running Wild mainman Rolf “Rock’n’Rolf” Kasparek commented: “We all know the difficulties the cultural sector was faced with during the lockdown. On the other hand, it also gave me and many other artists some extra time since most releases had to be postponed. I used that time to fine-tune every little detail of my new material. The result is an album that in my opinion is probably the best in Running Wild’s career to date. Every one of the ten songs sounds exactly as I had it in mind when I composed it. I’ve never been happier with a Running Wild record before.”
Kasparek described the effort as the group’s most diverse release to date. “Every song has its own unmistakable sound,” he explained. “Although I recorded the rhythm guitar parts with my 1976 Gibson Explorer as usual, the other parts were cut with a Gibson Flying V, a Fender Stratocaster and even – the undistorted parts – with a Fender American Standard Telecaster.” A clean guitar performance can be heard on the track ‘One Night, One Day’. “For me, this track was a little experiment that I’ve never dared to try before, because ‘One Night, One Day’ doesn’t have the typical intro-verse-chorus structure, instead gradually building up throughout the song,” Kasparek said.
Closing track ‘The Iron Times (1618 – 1648)’ delves into the Thirty Years’ War, while the songs ‘Wings Of Fire’ and ‘Say Your Prayers’ are about prophecies, albeit not – as on many other releases – the prophecies of Nostradamus, but – among others – the prophecies of John of Jerusalem, the French Knight Templar and co-founder of the Order of the Knights Templar, who predicted organ trafficking back in the Middle Ages. ‘Crossing The Blades’, meanwhile sees Running Wild broach the story of the three musketeers from the 17th century.
Cover artwork duties fell to Jens Reinhold. “It’s a kind of hybrid between the cross of the musketeers and our mascot, Adrian,” Kasparek viewed.
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The track listing is as follows:
01. ‘Blood On Blood’
02. ‘Wings Of Fire’
03. ‘Say Your Prayers’
04. ‘Diamonds & Pearls’
05. ‘Wild & Free’
06. ‘Crossing The Blades’
07. ‘One Night, One Day’
08. ‘The Shellback’
09. ‘Wild, Wild Nights’
10. ‘The Iron Times (1618 – 1648)’
Running Wild’s line-up is as follows:
Rolf “Rock’n’Rolf” Kasparek (vocals and guitars)
Peter Jordan (guitars)
Ole Hempelmann (bass)
Michael Wolpers (drums)
Official lyric videos were created for the songs ‘Crossing The Blades’ and ‘Diamonds & Pearls’. Both clips can also be viewed below.
Sixteenth studio record Rapid Foray was released in August 2016 via Steamhammer / SPV.
