Gates to Purgatory | ||||
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Studio album by Running Wild | ||||
Released | December 26, 1984 | |||
Recorded | June, 1984 | |||
Studio | Caet Studio, Berlin, Germany | |||
Genre | Speed metal | |||
Label | Noise | |||
Producer | Running Wild | |||
Running Wild chronology | ||||
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Gates to Purgatory is the first studio album by Running Wild. 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. The album has sold over 235,000 copies worldwide.
The album was reissued in 2012 by Lemon records.
All tracks were composed and written by Gerald "Preacher" Warnecke and Rolf Kasparek.
The following tracks appeared on the CD release, the US and Canadian editions of the LP, as well as on the Victim of States Power EP: