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On connait désormais le nom et la date de sortie du prochain album de Running Wild, le deuxième depuis le "retour" du groupe.

Il se nommera "Resilient" et sortira le 4 octobre 2013 en Allemagne puis le 7 octobre 2013 dans le reste de l'Europe.

Quelques infos dévoilées sur les morceaux :

• l'opener s'appellera "Soldiers of Fortune"
  
• le morceau titre, "The Drift" et "Run Riot" seront des morceaux typiques "Running Wild"
  
• le morceau le plus extraordinaire est "Bloody Island" qui dure dix minutes, un des plus longs morceaux de l'histoire du groupe
  
  

Selon les dires de Rock'n'Rolf en personne, cet album sera plus compact et costaud que son prédécesseur qui était un peu inattendu et spontané.

Le groupe allemand vient de révéler la tracklist de son prochain album "Resilient". Ce dernier sortira en Allemagne le 4 octobre et dans le reste de l’Europe le 7 octobre.


Running Wild - Resilient (2013)

01. Soldiers Of Fortune
02. Resilient
03. Adventure Highway
04. The Drift
05. Desert Rose
06. Fireheart
07. Run Riot
08. Down To The Wire
09. Crystal Gold
10. Bloody Island
11. Payola & Shenanigans (Limited Edition Bonus Track)
12. Premonition (Limited Edition Bonus Track)

RUNNING WILD - Complete New Album Details Revealed


Adrian, the band’s mascot, in his brave battle against the forces of nature – the cover of the new Running Wild album Resilient documents emphatically: this band really is irrepressible. Their current studio production sees the metal galley from Northern Germany sail close to the metal wind again, tougher and more determined than ever. Captain Rock’n’Rolf Kasparek has come up with twelve storm-proof numbers, ten of which are scheduled for release on the regular CD on October 7 (Germany: October 4; North America: October , two additional bonus tracks and a poster will be included on the limited version of the album. There can be no doubt: Running Wild will proudly sail the pirate flag in the 38th year of their existence, effortlessly sailing through the straits of the business.



Rock’n’Rolf has been working full throttle on this new album since February 2013. Due to his intense involvement with Giant X, his band with guitarist Peter Jordan, Rolf had consciously taken a break from Running Wild and has now resumed work with the band with zest and lots of new ideas. “The break was important and extremely refreshing for me,” he explains. “I felt that renewed vigour as soon as I started writing the material for Resilient, tracks such as ‘Fireheart’ and ‘Soldiers Of Fortune’ just came pouring out of me. The dynamic pace of ‘Soldiers Of Fortune’ in particular kicked off a whole avalanche of creativity in me.”

Rolf explains that Resilient is audibly tougher and more compact than its predecessor Shadowmaker, clearly enjoying his revived zest: “Shadowmaker happened to come about slightly unexpectedly and spontaneously, even for me. The album has brought back the fun I used to have with Running Wild, and my fans will get to feel this fun when Resilient comes out in October!”

The album’s opener will be called ‘Soldiers Of Fortune’, and the title track, ‘The Drift’ and ‘Run Riot’ will be three typical Running Wild numbers. The most outstanding song on the album, however, is called ‘Bloody Island’, with almost ten minutes playing time one of the longest tracks in Running Wild’s career to date. Rolf: “As a composer, it’s of course difficult for me to pigeonhole the new material stylistically, but friends who have heard the demo version of ‘Bloody Island’ claim that it would have fitted in on Pile Of Skulls.”

In terms of lyrics, there are the familiar fusillades that we’ve come to expect from Running Wild: ‘Bloody Island’ and the bonus track ‘Payola & Shenanigans’ see Rock’n’Rolf criticise the curse of greed that we’ve seen specifically in the European banking crisis of recent years. ‘Crystal Gold’ is about the obviously politically motivated privatisation of drinking water, and ‘Fireheart’ and ‘Run Riot’ are warnings to Running Wild’s fans to be confident of themselves and vigilant towards authorities. Rolf: “For me, that’s the attitude which stands for that true rock’n’roll feeling.”



Resilient was produced by Rock’n’Rolf himself, supported by Niki Nowy during the mixing and mastering process, as well as Katharina Nowy and Peter Jordan, who contributed a number of guitar solos. For the first time, Rolf worked with precise vocal lines during the demo recordings. “The targeted use of lyrics and vocal melodies during the demo stage was new for me, but it worked out really well and I’ve never gone to the studio as well prepared as I did this time around. I didn’t have to try and test things but only had to put a few finishing touches to my singing at the studio. A definite advantage!”

Remains the question whether Running Wild will present this brilliant album live on stage. Rolf: “We’ve had a lot of festival offers for summer 2014 which we will look at carefully. We’ll know more in a few months’ time and will inform our fans as soon as we’ve made up our minds.”

Tracklisting Digipak
'Soldiers Of Fortune'
'Resilient'
'Adventure Highway'
'The Drift'
'Desert Rose'
'Fireheart'
'Run Riot'
'Down To The Wire'
'Crystal Gold'
'Bloody Island'
'Payola & Shenanigans' (bonus track)
'Premonition (bonus track)

Tracklisting Jewel Case
'Soldiers Of Fortune'
'Resilient'
'Adventure Highway'
'The Drift'
'Desert Rose'
'Fireheart'
'Run Riot'
'Down To The Wire'
'Crystal Gold'
'Bloody Island'



Tracklisting LP

LP 1

Side 1
'Soldiers Of Fortune'
'Resilient'
'Adventure Highway'

Side 2
'The Drift'
'Desert Rose'
'Fireheart'

LP 2

Side 3
'Run Riot'
'Down To The Wire'
'Crystal Gold'

Side 4
'Bloody Island'

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RUNNING WILD - Rock ’N’ Rolf's Resilience


By Kelley Simms

There’s no mistaking that pirate metal was invented by RUNNING WILD (way before ALESTORM’s comedic slant on the genre). Beginning with its signature 1987 album, Under Jolly Roger, it ushered in a new sound on the metal landscape. It’s been almost 30 years since the release of Running Wild’s faux Satanic debut album, Gates To Purgatory, and with the exception of a brief hiatus from 2009 to 2011, the band, led by guitarist/vocalist Rolf “Rock ’N’ Rolf” Kasparek, is still sailing the high seas, so to speak. Faithful band mascot Adrian is also back, as he graces the CD cover, which is decorated in a classic ’80s airbrushed style.


Shadowmaker, the band’s 15th studio album, was released just a little over a year ago and is considered to be just an average comeback album. During the same time period, Rolf also contributed to the side project Giant X with fellow Running Wild guitarist Peter Jordan. With Running Wild’s 16th full-length release, Resilient (Steamhammer/SPV), it proves to be a fitting name that describes Rolf’s tenacity and the band’s perseverance perfectly. Resilient sounds like there was a concentrated effort by Rolf to resurrect that old-school Running Wild sound that Shadowmaker mostly lacked.

“The truth came about when I was writing for the songs,” Rolf said. “It just turned out that some of the songs had some of the old stuff. Not because I tried to write like that, just because it came out like that. The songs had the spirit of the old stuff. We weren’t trying to copy that sound because it wouldn’t make sense because we’re in 2013. So we tried to get the best sound out of the songs that we could. In this case, it’s typical Running Wild.”

Guitarist/engineer Peter Jordan’s involvement with Running Wild since its restart in 2011 has proven to be imperative in the rekindled enthusiasm for the band. “He’s been a part of the production team as a sound engineer and has recorded a lot of stuff for me. Sometimes we were working in three different studios at the same time. I was recording my vocals, he was recording his solos and planning the final mix. He’s part of the team. He’s played most of the guitar solos. Some of the songs I was just figuring them out on the guitar just to make the solo part, but there was no real idea there for the solo. So, I gave them to him to figure out because he’s a great guitarist. He got such a great production sound and he played his part in that.”


Rolf stated that if there was one song on Resilient that personifies everything that Running Wild stands for, it would have to be ‘Bloody Island.’

“When I was writing it, the ideas came very quickly and I put down all the pieces very quickly and forgot about it. When I came back to write on it I figured out that all these parts that I had recorded were the arrangement of the song. The song sort of wrote itself. I knew from the first part I was working on that it would be the definitive track. I can’t tell you why, but I got the same feeling back when I was writing ‘Under Jolly Roger’ and ‘Conquistadores.’ I can’t explain it. It’s just a very special feeling you have when you’re writing on a song.”

The basis of Resilient’s opening song, ‘Soldiers Of Fortune,’ combines the band’s past with a more modern sound, something they initially tried on Shadowmaker. But for the first time, Rolf worked with precise vocal lines during the demo recordings of Resilient and his vocal harmonies are more focused, which actually progressed naturally while in the studio.

“This time I really took the time to do a full demo with full vocals and harmony vocals,” Rolf concluded. “This was the first time I could really work on that. We played around with a lot of different harmony vocals and it was the first time I was involved with that. When I did Shadowmaker, there was also some things that we wanted to try and there was a special kind of vocal sound that I have, which is the basic sound on the album. PJ sang on one song, which is ‘Bloody Island,’ all the other songs had to be done by myself just to make sure it was Running Wild.”


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