Blazon Stone is the sixth album by German band Running Wild, released in 1991. The album has sold over 440,000 records worldwide. According to Rolf Kasparek in an interview to a Brazilian heavy metal/hard rock magazine (Roadie Crew, ed. #41, June 2002), Blazon Stone is the best-selling album by the band, in the 1990s. It is also their first album with both guitarist Axel Morgan and drummer AC.
Track listing
All tracks written by Rolf Kasparek except where noted
Side A
No.
Title
Writer(s)
Length
1.
"Blazon Stone"
6:30
2.
"Lonewolf"
4:49
3.
"Slavery"
5:15
4.
"Fire & Ice"
AC
4:09
5.
"Little Big Horn"
5:00
Side B
No.
Title
Writer(s)
Length
6.
"White Masque"
4:17
7.
"Rolling Wheels"
Becker
5:33
8.
"Bloody Red Rose"
5:06
9.
"Straight to Hell"
Becker
3:50
10.
"Heads or Tails"
4:58
Total length:
49:27
CD Bonus Tracks
No.
Title
Writer(s)
Length
1.
"Over the Rainbow" (Instrumental)
Becker
1:55
2.
"Billy the Kid"
Kasparek, Dreffein
4:47
3.
"Genocide (The Killing of the Buffalo)" (Thin Lizzy cover)
"Genocide (The Killing of the Buffalo)" (Thin Lizzy cover)
Phil Lynott
4:47
4.
"Dancing on a Minefield"
4:59
Total length:
1:05:58
Notes
1st press CD release and Polish pressings features the three bonus tracks "Over the Rainbow", "Billy the Kid" and a cover version of the Thin Lizzy song "Genocide". Later CD releases feature one or two bonus tracks
The 1995 re-release includes the song "Dancing on a Minefield", which is also featured as a bonus track on the 1994 album Black Hand Inn
The 2017 remastered release features all bonus tracks (excluding "Dancing on a Minefield"), plus the 2003 re-recorded versions of "Blazon Stone" and "Little Big Horn"
Jan Olav, Martina Wiegendt, Sven Pöschmann, Michael Herwig, Jens Butterwick, Raymond Kana, Oliver Losshagen and Ladislav Křížek – backing vocals on "Little Big Horn" and "Heads or Tails"
Production
Jan Němec – Engineering, Mixing
Karl-U. Walterbach – Executive producer
Thorsten Herbig – Photography
Rock 'n' Rolf – Producer
Andreas Marschall – Cover art (front and back covers)
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