Power Metal is like fruitcake; a bad joke to most people, but a wonderland of delicious treasures to those more educated and refined. Unlike fruitcake, the best Power Metal comes from Germany. This album represents the golden age of the genre, before it became just a soundtrack for LARPing. You had the cheesy, epic and melodic quality of the English New Wave paired with the emphasis of speed and techinicality of Thrash. This is also the pinnacle of Running Wild's long career, where they achieved their highest level of musicianship and before they went in a more slick and accessible direction that the whole genre would lean towards through the rest of the 90s.
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