Running Wild - Death Or Glory Tour And Some Early Demos

Tracklist

1	Intro
2	Riding The Storm
3	Bad To The Bone
4	Raw Ride
5	Raging Fire
6	Tortuga Bay
7	Uaschitschun
8	Bass Solo
9	Conquistadores
10	Warchild
11	King Of The Midnight Fire
12	Hallow The Hell
13	Chains & Leather
14	Soldiers Of Hell
15	Senghir Khan

Notes

Same 1989 gig as above, although the "Chains and Leather"/"Riding the Storm" intro isn't here. The audio begins with the brief opening riffage the band plays before "Riding the Storm."

Tracks 10-12 are from the band's first 1981 demo. Track 10 begins with a short, incomplete snippet of the scream from the "Heavy Metal Like a Hammerblow" demo intro. "Warchild" has nothing to do with the song from "Port Royal."

The vocals on "King of the Midnight Fire" don't sound like Rolf, but I don't know if anyone else also handled vocal duties in the early stages of the band. Actually, the other 2 tracks were also used for the "Debut No. 1" comp. LP and for the "Heavy Metal Like a Hammerblow" demo, so I don't know if the different singing style was a possible reason "King of the Midnight Fire" was excluded from being used again. "Hallow the Hell" is the closest song in style to "Gates to Purgatory" material.

Tracks 13 and 14 are the same as on the "The Brotherhood Tour 2002," just with a bit lower sound quality.

Track 15 has nothing to do with Running Wild-- it's the "Necronomicon" instrumental from "The Third Move" album by Dutch band Avalon.

All of the demo material is of very good quality for its age. Tracks 10, 12, 13, and 14 were all released on the "...Hammerblow" demo. The demo stuff may have been sourced from various places though, as neither the original "Heavy Metal Like a Hammerblow" tape or the bootleg LP of the same name (which each have different tracklists anyway) have "King of the Midnight Fire" on them.

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