Port Royal (album)

Port Royal
Studio album by
Released26 September 1988
RecordedJune 1988
StudioSky Trak Studio, Berlin, Germany
Genre
Length44:15
LabelNoise
ProducerRunning Wild, Karl-Ulrich Walterbach
Running Wild chronology
Ready for Boarding
(1988)
Port Royal
(1988)
Death or Glory
(1989)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal8/10[2]
Rock Hard7.5/10[3]

Port Royal is the fourth album by German heavy metal band Running Wild. It expanded on the pirate theme introduced in their album Under Jolly Roger (1987) and established them as "pirate metal" in the metal community. The album takes its name from the location of Calico Jack's death.

In 2017, Loudwire ranked Port Royal as the 23rd-best power metal album of all time.[4]

  1. ^ Ravelin, Antti J. "Running Wild – Port Royale review". AllMusic. Retrieved 14 May 2021.
  2. ^ Popoff, Martin (1 November 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 297. ISBN 978-1-894959-31-5.
  3. ^ Kupfer, Thomas (1988). "Running Wild 'Port Royal'". Rock Hard (29). Archived from the original on 26 December 2015. Retrieved 25 December 2012.
  4. ^ Divita, Joe (5 July 2017). "Top 25 Power Metal Albums of All Time". Loudwire. Townsquare Media. Retrieved 3 March 2021.