Victory (Running Wild album)
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Victory is an album by German band Running Wild
Running Wild (band)
Running Wild is a German heavy metal band, formed in 1976 in Hamburg. They were part of the German heavy/speed/power metal scene to emerge in the early to mid 1980s. The band has carved its niche in the metal world as the first "pirate metal" band, a theme which took off with the release of Under...

. It is the third in a trilogy of a theme of good versus evil, started with Masquerade and continued with The Rivalry
The Rivalry (album)
The Rivalry is an album by German band Running Wild. It is the second in a trilogy of a theme of good versus evil, begun with Masquerade and concluded with Victory.The album has sold over 200,000 copies worldwide.-Track listing:...

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The album has sold over 250,000 copies worldwide.


Track listing

  1. "Fall of Dorkas" (Rolf Kasparek) – 5:15
  2. "When Time Runs Out" (Rolf Kasparek) – 5:16
  3. "Timeriders" (Rolf Kasparek) – 4:23
  4. "Into the Fire" (Rolf Kasparek) – 4:56
  5. "Revolution
    Revolution (song)
    "Revolution" is a song by The Beatles written by John Lennon and credited to Lennon–McCartney. The Beatles released two distinct arrangements of the song in 1968: a hard rock version as the B-side of the single "Hey Jude", and a slower version titled "Revolution 1" on the eponymous album The Beatles...

    " (John Lennon
    John Lennon
    John Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music...

    , Paul McCartney
    Paul McCartney
    Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE, Hon RAM, FRCM is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. Formerly of The Beatles and Wings , McCartney is listed in Guinness World Records as the "most successful musician and composer in popular music history", with 60 gold discs and sales of 100...

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    – 2:57
  6. "The Final Waltz" (Thilo Hermann) – 1:19
  7. "Tsar
    Tsar
    Tsar is a title used to designate certain European Slavic monarchs or supreme rulers. As a system of government in the Tsardom of Russia and Russian Empire, it is known as Tsarist autocracy, or Tsarism...

    " (Rolf Kasparek) – 7:07
  8. "The Hussar
    Hussar
    Hussar refers to a number of types of light cavalry which originated in Hungary in the 14th century, tracing its roots from Serbian medieval cavalry tradition, brought to Hungary in the course of the Serb migrations, which began in the late 14th century....

    " (Rolf Kasparek) – 4:04
  9. "The Guardian" (Rolf Kasparek) – 5:08
  10. "Return of the Gods" (Rolf Kasparek, Thilo Hermann) – 5:29
  11. "Silent Killer" (Rolf Kasparek) – 4:44
  12. "Victory" (Rolf Kasparek) – 4:47



The Final Waltz: strings arranged and produced by Ralf Nowy.

The song "Tsar" is about the Russian Emperor Nikolai II
Nicholas II of Russia
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Members

  • Rolf Kasparek - vocals
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    , guitar
    Guitar
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  • Thilo Hermann
    Thilo Hermann
    Thilo Hermann is heavy metal guitarist and songwriter, who recently worked with Grave Digger.-History:...

     - guitars
  • Thomas Smuszynski - bass guitar
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

  • Angelo Sasso
    Angelo Sasso
    Angelo Sasso is a heavy metal drummer credited for playing the drums on two Running Wild albums, Victory and The Brotherhood. It was suspected that a drum computer was used in recording these two albums and that "Angelo Sasso" is simply a fictional person used to cover this up...

     - drums
    Drum kit
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