Blazon Stone

Blazon Stone
Studio album by Running Wild
Released	4 April 1991
Recorded	December 1990 – January 1991
Studio	Studio M, Hanover
Genre	Heavy metal, power metal
Length	49:27
Label	Noise
Producer	Rolf Kasparek, Karl-Ulrich Walterbach
Running Wild chronology
Death or Glory (1989) Blazon Stone (1991) The First Years of Piracy (1991)
Singles from Blazon Stone
"Little Big Horn" Released: 28 February 1991

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal	7/10 [2]
Rock Hard	9.0/10 [3]

Blazon Stone is the sixth album by German heavy metal band Running Wild, released in 1991. 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)	Phil Lynott	4:47
Total length:			60:56

1995 bonus tracks

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Over the Rainbow" (instrumental)	Becker	1:55
2.	"Billy the Kid"		4:47
3.	"Genocide (The Killing of the Buffalo)" (Thin Lizzy cover)	Phil Lynott	4:47
4.	"Dancing on a Minefield"		4:59
Total length:			65:58

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"

Personnel

• Rolf Kasparek – vocals, guitar
• Axel Morgan – guitars
• Jens Becker – bass
• Rüdiger "AC" Dreffein – drums

Additional Musicians

• Kalle Bösel – backing vocals
• 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 – engineer, mixing
• Karl-Ulrich Walterbach – executive producer
• Thorsten Herbig – photography
• Rock 'n' Rolf – producer
• Andreas Marschall – pover art (front and back covers)
• Horst Herrndorff – pover art (back cover)

Charts

Chart (1991)	Peak position
Finnish Albums (The Official Finnish Charts) [4]	24
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [5]	22
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [6]	16

References

1. Huey, Steve. "Running Wild – Blazon Stone review". AllMusic . Retrieved 14 May 2021.
2. Popoff, Martin (1 August 2007). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties. Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 372. ISBN   978-1-894959-62-9.
3. Götz Kühnemund. (1991). "Running Wild 'Blazon Stone'". Rock Hard . Retrieved 3 June 2013.
4. Pennanen, Timo (2006). Sisältää hitin – levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1972 (in Finnish) (1st ed.). Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava. ISBN   978-951-1-21053-5.
5. "Offiziellecharts.de – Running Wild – Blazon Stone" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
6. "Swisscharts.com – Running Wild – Blazon Stone". Hung Medien. Retrieved 12 September 2020.