Releases › Running Wild › Gates to Purgatory
Gates to Purgatory
Hear it
Searches, not exact matches — each opens that service's own results. MusicBrainz is linked by id.
Where it sits
First of the seventeen Running Wild records held here. It came eight years into a run that began in 1976. 1984 puts it 22 years ahead of the genre it is filed under: this tree dates Pirate metal from 2006.
From Wikipedia
Gates to Purgatory is the debut studio album by German heavy metal band Running Wild, released in 1984. Predating their pirate themes, the album features mostly satanically-influenced lyrics, alongside songs with anarchic and libertarian (in the sense of European libertarianism) themes. The lyrical content was partly influenced by Gerald "Preacher" Warnecke's studies in theology. He left the band shortly after the album's release to become a vicar.
Filed under