| Gates to Purgatory | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | October 1984 | |||
| Recorded | June 1984 | |||
| Studio | Caet Studio, Berlin[1] | |||
| Genre | Speed metal, heavy metal | |||
| Length | 33:41 | |||
| Label | Noise (Germany) Combat (US) | |||
| Producer | Running Wild and Horst Müller | |||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal | 4/10[2] |
Gates to Purgatory is the debut studio album by German heavy metal band Running Wild, released in 1984. It predates their piracy themes and has mostly satanically-influenced lyrics but also features songs with anarchic and libertarian (in the sense of European libertarianism) themes. It was in part of Gerald "Preacher" Warnecke's studies in theology. He left the band soon after the album's release to become a vicar.
The album has sold over 235,000 copies worldwide.[citation needed] The album was reissued in 2012 by Lemon Records, as well as in 2017 by Noise Records.
- ^ "RUNNING WILD - the official website". running-wild.de. Archived from the original on 27 November 2016. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
- ^ Popoff, Martin (1 November 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 297. ISBN 978-1894959315.