German pirate metal legends, RUNNING WILD play their only show of the year, headlining the prestigious Wacken Festival in Germany. As a special opportunity for fans, the band will be doing an exclusive signing session for their new box set, ’Pieces Of Eight‘ at the festival too!

Meet the band at the official Wacken Signing Stage on Friday 3rd August, between 19:15 and 20:15h. The box will be available for the first time to buy at the stage.

Pieces Of Eight will also be on sale exclusively, all weekend at the Hot Shot Records stall in the Metal Market. Look out for the Rock N‘Rolf cut out at the Hot Shot stall too and a chance to win a box set! #piecesofeight

Running Wild perform on the Harder stage between 22:20 – 00:00 and promise to play some classic songs from their back catalogue and also celebrate the 30th anniversary of their million selling album ’Port Royal‘.

Pieces Of Eight – The Singles, Live And Rare. 1984 – 1994 In stores 28th SEPT 2018.

Watch the teaser trailer here –

PREORDER EXCLUSIVE SIGNED COPIES BY ROCK N‘ROLF HERE – https://runningwildband.lnk.to/PiecesOfEight

Pieces Of Eight – The Singles, Live And Rare. 1984 – 1994

NOISE Records are proud to announce, Running Wild – Pieces Of Eight : The Singles, Live and Rare. 1984 – 1994. A deluxe, limited edition boxset containing all the bands Noise records singles, the re-record compilation ’The First Years Of Piracy‘ and an expanded, double gold vinyl version of their debut live album ’Ready For Boarding‘, which features a whole new show on disc two, from 1989, previously only available before on VHS tape.

All of these titles have been long out of print, since their original release during the bands decade tenure on Noise. The box set also includes a collectable, Running Wild, piece of eight coin and a two sided poster featuring the band‘s classic line-up and the box set artwork.

German heavy metallers Running Wild were formed in 1976 in Hamburg, but shot to fame during the emergence of the German metal scene in the early to mid-1980s.

Over the course of their career, they have released sixteen studio albums, three live albums, five compilation albums, and six singles/EPs. Although their earlier releases contained Satanic themes and imagery, they later invented the pirate metal subgenre after the band released their third album in 1987, Under Jolly Roger, which was a switch to pirate-based and historical themes, creating and influencing the later named Pirate metal subgenre of heavy metal in the 2000s in the process.

While the historical lyrics were fantasy at first, the lyrics for later albums were intensively researched, by frontman Rolf Kasparek in particular. After this album, from 1988 to 1992 (for the albums Port Royal, Death or Glory, Blazon Stone, Pile of Skulls & Mascquerade), Running Wild mainly wrote historically based lyrics. 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. They have sold over 1.8 million albums globally making them one of Germany’s largest exports.

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