20 Years in History: Best Of

20 Years in History: Best Of

Track Listings
Disc: 1

1. Prowling Werewolf [Live][#]

2. Genghis Khan

3. Prisoners of Our Time

4. Branded & Exiled '03

5. Mordor '03

6. Under Jolly Roger

7. Apocalyptic Horsemen [#]

8. Raise Your Fist

9. Port Royal

10. Conquistadores

See all 14 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Whirlwind

2. Treasure Island

3. Black Hand Inn

4. Privateer

5. Lions of the Sea

6. Black Soul

7. Firebreather

8. Ballad of William Kidd

9. Victory

10. Tsar

See all 12 tracks on this disc

20 Years in History: Best Of,Running Wild,Noise,Heavy Metal,Pop,Power Metal,Rock,Thrash

20 Years in History (Best Of)
Average customer rating:

Miserable sounding collection of mutilated old songs

all you need in one little package

Unbelievably good!

Are the bonus tracks worth it...

great collection.

20 Years in History (Best Of)
Running Wild
Manufacturer: Noise
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
General | Rock | Styles | Music
General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music
Thrash & Speed Metal | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music
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ASIN: B0000E1WML
Release Date: 2003-11-25

Tracks:

Prowling Werewolf [Live][#]
Genghis Khan
Prisoners of Our Time
Branded & Exiled '03
Mordor '03
Under Jolly Roger
Apocalyptic Horsemen [#]
Raise Your Fist
Port Royal
Conquistadores
Riding the Storm
Bad to the Bone
Blazon Stone
Little Big Horn

Tracks:

Whirlwind
Treasure Island
Black Hand Inn
Privateer
Lions of the Sea
Black Soul
Firebreather
Ballad of William Kidd
Victory
Tsar
Welcome to Hell
Brotherhood

Customer Reviews:

Miserable sounding collection of mutilated old songs.......2006-09-25

It would be a huge understatement if I said how passionately I hate this disgusting collection of old songs that have been mutilated and buthered to death by digital technology and a band leader who hasn't that something which is not broken should not be fixed. First the CD itself: it epitomizes everything which is wrong with modern CDs: LOUDNESS. I had to use the output level control of my CD player to reduce the output by 10 db before I could find a comfortable volume level with my amplifier. The CD is disgustingly loud beyond belief. The second you hit play the music hits you like a brick. This is apparently the new style of metal. To hell with sound quality, just make it louder. Tone deaf metal heads will not care. The songs have been compressed to hell and back. There is ZERO dynamic range. There is no seperation between the instruments. The sound is digitally sterile, lifeless, flat and one-dimensional. I got ear-fatigue after listening for only two minutes.

Now for the songs: each and every single one of them sounds worse than the original versions. What was Rolf Kasparek thinking? Did he really think in his screwed up mind that he was improving the songs by simply adding new rhythm guitar tracks or new bass lines? The man has a screw loose. There is nothing new. The songs have simply been made louder, drums have been pushed back in the mix in alot of places and it just sounds like one big huge mess. There is no balance between the instruments. Stay far away from this disaster of a best-of collection. If you are a tone deaf metal head who just wants to drink beer, bang your head and have fun, go ahead and buy this. For anyone else: stay far away.

all you need in one little package.......2006-01-02

If you like old school power metal in the Maiden/Priest vein this is a great deal. RW is solid and this 2 disc set is a steal for under 15 dollars. I view this as fun "pirate metal". And I will risk saying if you don't have any other albums just get this as RW never really branches out and sounds too different. They have their sound, they're good at it, and the denim/leather school of metal is well represented on these 2 discs. As a side note their used to be a christian band called Messiah Prophet band that sounded an awful lot like this. So if you want the christian version find their Master of the Metal album.

Unbelievably good!.......2005-08-02

I've been going back and collecting some of the old albums I used to listen to back in the mid-late '80's. Little did I know Running Wild was still around and going strong. I used to own "Branded and Exiled" and "Under Jolly Roger". I re-ordered them on CD and found this ablum, and decided it would be worth it to sample what this band has been doing since then. Little did I know what a jewel I had ordered!
I go back to the days of early Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, etc., and the only good metal band I have continued to follow from the early days is Megadeth (I got turned off to Metallica after the "Black" ablum). At first listen, I was a bit dissapointed, as "Mordor '03" and the updated "branded and Exiled" wasn't as good as the versions on the original ablum. Once the rift began for "Conquistadores" burst forth, I began to get hooked! Though the vocals on this ablum kind of get drowned out, the band is really tight. They have something of the sound of Iron Maiden at their peak, but more with a pirate edge.
Best songs: Under Jolly Roger, Conquistadores, Little Big Horn, Blazon Stone, Treasure Island, Black Hand Inn, The Privateer, Lions of the Sea, Balled of William Kidd (the best) and Tsar. Overall, this is one of the best old school style metal ablums I've heard in years; These two disks and "Y&T; Best Of, '80-86" hardly ever leave my carousel.

Are the bonus tracks worth it..........2004-11-18

For metal collectors, "best of" packages can be both a blessing and a hinderance. The reason why is because record execs have it planned perfectly to include unreleased bonus tracks in the package to suck in the die hard fans to buy the set as well as passive fans. The same is here with "20 Years in History", a two disc best of compilation of Running Wild featuring 4 unreleased tracks. Two of the bonus tracks are re-recordings of Mordor and Branded and Exhiled, two tracks that originally appeared on their sophmore album. The othe two tracks are Prowling Werewolf and Apocalyptic Horsemen which are brand new songs that were written in the early days of the band but never recorded in the studio until now. These tracks sound interesting, but sadly they don't come out so hot. The reason being is the drums, which are obviously drum machines. I have nothing against drum machines as they can sound good if done right, but the drums on these four tracks sound absolutly terrible! Other than the rather lame bonus tracks, this "best of" compilation does a wonderful job at picking great tracks from every Running Wild studio album (from their debut Gates of Purgatory through The Brotherhood). There are two songs featured from every album (except Branded and Exhiled, which the re-recordings took the place of) and they are offered in new re-mixed forms. This is definitely another beautifly "best of" release from Sanctuary Records, but there was one thing I was disappointed in other than the bonus tracks. The Sanctuary "best of" releases of Helloween, Venom, and Motorhead contained detailed booklets with the history of the band in the form of liner notes. Nothing of that sort is found here other than various pictures. Overall this is still a great reelease for passive Running Wild fans and people wanting to sample what the band has to offer. As for die hard fans, it isn't worth getting unless you have to collect every studio track the band has ever recorded.

great collection........2004-08-25

Prowling Werewolf is *not* live. It's a rerecorded version of that unreleased song. Same with Apolyptic Horsemen. Both are like "The First Ten Years Of Piracy" songs; rerecorded by the new band. In fact almost *every* song on this compilation has been "reworked" (Rolf's words) or rerecorded. No great changes to the old stuff, but the sound's a bit 'newer'. If you liked "The First Ten Years" you'll like this and if you don't have any RW albums yet you could do far worse than starting here as there's a little bit of everything here.

Average customer rating:

20 Years in History (Best Of)
Running Wild
Manufacturer: King
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0001925D0
Release Date: 2004-03-08

Tracks:

Prowling Werewolf [Live][#]
Genghis Khan
Prisoners of Our Time
Branded & Exiled '03
Mordor '03
Under Jolly Roger
Apocalyptic Horsemen [#]
Raise Your Fist
Port Royal
Conquistadores
Riding the Storm
Bad to the Bone
Blazon Stone
Little Big Horn

Tracks:

Whirlwind
Treasure Island
Black Hand Inn
Privateer
Lions of the Sea
Black Soul
Firebreather
Ballad of William Kidd
Victory
Tsar
Welcome to Hell
Brotherhood

Average customer rating:

20 Years in History (Best Of)
Running Wild
Manufacturer: Sanctuary
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Thrash & Speed Metal | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music

Hard Rock & Metal | Imports | Stores | Music
ASIN: B0000C42ZF
Release Date: 2004-03-22

Tracks:

Prowling Werewolf [Live][#]
Genghis Khan
Prisoners of Our Time
Branded & Exiled '03
Mordor '03
Under Jolly Roger
Apocalyptic Horsemen [#]
Raise Your Fist
Port Royal
Conquistadores
Riding the Storm
Bad to the Bone
Blazon Stone
Little Big Horn

Tracks:

Whirlwind
Treasure Island
Black Hand Inn
Privateer
Lions of the Sea
Black Soul
Firebreather
Ballad of William Kidd
Victory
Tsar
Welcome to Hell
Brotherhood

Album Description

2003 remastered & remixed compilation for the German metal act includes two previously unreleased tracks 'Prowling Werewolf' & 'Apocalyptic Horsemen'. Noise.

Album Details

2 CD, 24 track anthology.