--- product_id: 31782493 title: "Gates To Purgatory" price: "SAR 117" currency: SAR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.com.sa/products/31782493-gates-to-purgatory store_origin: SA region: Saudi Arabia --- # Gates To Purgatory **Price:** SAR 117 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Gates To Purgatory - **How much does it cost?** SAR 117 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.com.sa](https://www.desertcart.com.sa/products/31782493-gates-to-purgatory) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Digitally remastered and expanded edition of the 1984 debut album from the German Heavy Metal band. Gaining favorable interest, the band were offered to record their first full-length album for Noise Records and Gates to Purgatory was released at the end of that same year. With the band photographed surrounded by skulls and the satanic track titles, Running Wild began to draw comparisons to Venom and their ilk, when in reality they were more influenced by Judas Priest along with Kiss and AC/DC. Running Wild would go on to record eight studio albums for Noise and also release a live album. Lemon. Review: CLASSIC METAL MEMORIES - it was nice to see lemon records (uk) do a reissue of this long lost classic from 1984, victim of states of power was the first running wild song i heard in the autumn of 1984 as i bought the 12 single inch viynl at a great hm specialty metal shop back then, i loved the song as well as the b side so when the album arrived a month later as a german import i grabbed it the moment i saw it, by all standards this was the pre 1987 pirate image running wild when i personally felt running wild was going in more of an extreme judas priest style with this record and its 1985 follow up BRANDED AND EXILED ( wich is still my favorite) 27 years later, i loved running wild from the beggining with this record, of coarse in 1984 during that huge wave of german metal coming over here to the states with the likes of destruction, sodom, warrant, axe victims, helloween,celtic frost/hellhammer and a host of others, great metal on both the noise label and the mosuleum label from belgium, running wild was my favorite of them all and it kind of remained that way until around 2001/2002, anyway this album is feirce driven force metal with speed to it but the judas priest elements are all in there, some songs can get slow at times but they still keep this album way above water, i had not listened to this record since the early 90s about 20 years ago so it was great spinning this again and remembering the glory days of metal, running wild where slated for a us tour in 1986 in support of branded and exiled with celtic frost and voi vod but sadley running wild jumped off the tour after only a few west coast gigs so by the time the tour reached new york running wild was long gone, this is one band i really wish i had seen back in the 80s but it also seemed as if whatever happened in 1986 rockin rolph didnt seem to want to bother with the us market again, as history would have it in 1987 they released the under jolly rodger album ( wich is a classic) and went on with a whole pirate image and kind of got robbed of a bit of fame like nwobhm bands like raven and saxon did, once again i repeat when i got branded and exiled in the autumn of 1985 i was just blown away totally, i really hope lemon records or another label gives that the treatment the debut album got here, on this first album to you get the bonus track from the great death metal compilation lp from 1984 as well, i kept buying all the running wild albums as they came out for the rest of the 80s and all through the 90s but after there 2001 release i could see rockin rolph was getting a bit stail and i gave up then, if you are new to running wild i highley reccomend BRANDED AND EXILED, UNDER JOLLY RODGER, READY FOR BOARDING, PILE OF SKULLS and just about everything they did up to 2001, it is really nice to have a fresh remastered copy of this as i still have the original lps from the 80s and the cds from the 90s but the remastering is so much better on here, sadley my fourty something year old eyes cant read the liner notes but they appear to be taken straight from the original lp so i can read them there, for the price this is an amazing peice of metal history, play loud and enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!! Review: I like it - Very nice ## Images ![Gates To Purgatory - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61llhwvnxrL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ CLASSIC METAL MEMORIES *by E***. on August 12, 2012* it was nice to see lemon records (uk) do a reissue of this long lost classic from 1984, victim of states of power was the first running wild song i heard in the autumn of 1984 as i bought the 12 single inch viynl at a great hm specialty metal shop back then, i loved the song as well as the b side so when the album arrived a month later as a german import i grabbed it the moment i saw it, by all standards this was the pre 1987 pirate image running wild when i personally felt running wild was going in more of an extreme judas priest style with this record and its 1985 follow up BRANDED AND EXILED ( wich is still my favorite) 27 years later, i loved running wild from the beggining with this record, of coarse in 1984 during that huge wave of german metal coming over here to the states with the likes of destruction, sodom, warrant, axe victims, helloween,celtic frost/hellhammer and a host of others, great metal on both the noise label and the mosuleum label from belgium, running wild was my favorite of them all and it kind of remained that way until around 2001/2002, anyway this album is feirce driven force metal with speed to it but the judas priest elements are all in there, some songs can get slow at times but they still keep this album way above water, i had not listened to this record since the early 90s about 20 years ago so it was great spinning this again and remembering the glory days of metal, running wild where slated for a us tour in 1986 in support of branded and exiled with celtic frost and voi vod but sadley running wild jumped off the tour after only a few west coast gigs so by the time the tour reached new york running wild was long gone, this is one band i really wish i had seen back in the 80s but it also seemed as if whatever happened in 1986 rockin rolph didnt seem to want to bother with the us market again, as history would have it in 1987 they released the under jolly rodger album ( wich is a classic) and went on with a whole pirate image and kind of got robbed of a bit of fame like nwobhm bands like raven and saxon did, once again i repeat when i got branded and exiled in the autumn of 1985 i was just blown away totally, i really hope lemon records or another label gives that the treatment the debut album got here, on this first album to you get the bonus track from the great death metal compilation lp from 1984 as well, i kept buying all the running wild albums as they came out for the rest of the 80s and all through the 90s but after there 2001 release i could see rockin rolph was getting a bit stail and i gave up then, if you are new to running wild i highley reccomend BRANDED AND EXILED, UNDER JOLLY RODGER, READY FOR BOARDING, PILE OF SKULLS and just about everything they did up to 2001, it is really nice to have a fresh remastered copy of this as i still have the original lps from the 80s and the cds from the 90s but the remastering is so much better on here, sadley my fourty something year old eyes cant read the liner notes but they appear to be taken straight from the original lp so i can read them there, for the price this is an amazing peice of metal history, play loud and enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I like it *by N***N on May 10, 2026* Very nice ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great album *by J***Z on January 14, 2020* One of the best album from the German Heavy Metal. 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