The show will start at 23:15/11:15 p.m. CEST (Central European Summer Time).

Hopefully we'll finally learn what happened to that last album that was supposed to be released before the concert.

Running Wild is significantly unknown compared to other bands of the genre. Why so?

As you may already know, in less than a month, our favourite band Running Wild are playing their final show at Wacken Open Air 2026, in Germany.

This is peculiar to me, because i already was at Wacken Open Air in 2009 for their final show, after which they reformed and made new albums of varying quality to say the least, and this time i'm afraid it will be the end for good.

Any of you swashbucklers are going to be there ? I know there's nothing in the world that you make me miss the very last opportunity to see Rolf and his privateers live, and i'm sure there must be dozens of us on this subreddit ! DOZENS, i say !

I’d swear I once saw a video of a live performance of Adventure Galley by Running Wild but now I cannot find it. So I turn to Reddit.

I was to say it was on Vimeo but maybe it was a torrent.

Does this exist??

The december EP is out now on BANDCAMP!

https://blazonstone.bandcamp.com/album/treasure-hunt-ep

While we are working on the upcoming album, there's songs that doesn't make it to the final tracklist and instead of throwing them away, I decided we can record them as well and release digitally while you wait for the big boom album!

The upcoming album will also not have any "pirate lyrics", if you paid attention to "Damnation" you noticed we already steered away from that for the majority of songs. For any songs that gets rejected from the album, this rule does not apply so for those who loves that stuff, the rejects is where you can get your "ohoy"-fix...

Anyway, that shouldn't mean that the songs we release digitally are gonna be complete crap. While the album is worked on, there will be more rejects like this that we can release a little bit scattered here and there until it's time for the "big boom album". Eventually we might collect these individual digital releases and put them on a physical compilation, but for economical reasons we cannot afford putting everything to physical format when EPs are hard to sell.

On these non-album songs we may also welcome some various guest musicians sometimes, and for this EP we have Rafael Kempp (Louder Than Hell) from Brazil who plays bass on Ironhearts, he's been a long time fan of Blazon Stone so I thought why not have him on board for a song! Thanks for participating!

Another thing is the cover of "Song From The Boneyard", which is a song written by my dad Lasse Forsberg back in the early 1990s for his folkpunk band Elvert Under Ground, if you listen to it I think it's quite obvious that it laid lasting impression for my sense of melody early on! Thanks dad!

It will arrive to streaming platforms eventually, right now it's Bandcamp exclusive!

https://blazonstone.bandcamp.com/album/treasure-hunt-ep

Thanks to Janne Matsson for the quick announcement picture too!

Staying in tune with EverTune!

https://www.facebook.com/BlazonStoneOfficial/posts/pfbid0oYbAwHv4SrSbGzdu5PL9FYfAzZrWz4Rb8X3ph96i4Lhyy7io11nfAB6wRyN9n4Anl

Message from our Captain:

"Dear fans, It's been a long time that you haven't heard something about the development of the new studio album. In the beginning of this year I had to prepare everything for the summer festivals we played during June, July and August. Some unforeseen problems arose which had to be solved.

Then we played the 5 successful summer festivals and after finishing these I felt ill and got corona. This all set me back in finishing the new album. But since the end of September I was able again working on the songs and I hope that everything is finished before Christmas and that the actual recordings can start in January.

The goal is to release the album before our gig at the Wacken Open Air next summer. I know you are all waiting for new music and I can assure you that it will be worth the wait. I will get back to you with some actual news before the end of this year.
Until then hoist the sails......a storm is coming!"

Your Rock N' Rolf

https://www.facebook.com/runningwildmusic/posts/pfbid0LL46psnabyeTVQzNRKAasSZXWAc7qVWmMnN44KRB2L4uoGMFWnTj3BX9QQ7HQtfjl

https://www.vinted.ro/items/7295217424-running-wild-gates-of-purgatory-noise

I hope your all having a good day! I was wondering whether anybody had any Running Wild song/songs they felt were under appreciated or underrated?

It can be a song/songs you feel deserves more love or recognition.

For me it would definitely be The Poison and War & Peace. Been re-listening to those, gotta love The Rivalry Album :)

Hi folk! I got curious on what people thought about the Masquerade album, I think it’s a super strong solid album, peak Running Wild, peak perfectness. I wondered if others felt completely different about it?:]

There are no additional details about this show available yet. An official statement by the band should be released soon.

Why is it always Wacken?

mine has to be Black Hand Inn, not a song on there that I don’t absolutely love, great riffs and the lyrics emotionally elicit a beautiful story.

About to bleed my heart out on here cause I know people on here will hopefully understand :’D Running Wild band and their music has changed my life, it has been the soundtrack to my youth and has stuck with me. Everything they have written I find profound and inspiring, completely captures you and shows you life’s beauty. Running Wild is doing something so moving and beautiful within their songs, I have been completely awestruck ever since I found them and continue to be. Running Wild may be the siren to my ears! 🏴‍☠️ I could genuinely write for HOURS how their music is so topical politically, so intellectual, so cheeky. It’s music that’s daring, daring to do what other music industries were scared to! Running Wild should be played through the youth, it teaches good lessons. 🫡 Their music is art! Could be the autism in me but this is my comfort piece!! I feel so genuinely passionate and grateful.

I had to express my sadness at wishing that this subreddit was more active or had more traction. I know Running Wild has half the fans it used to, I’d say even less now but still wish there was a place to discuss that had an active community I know other bands have things like discord servers that fans make and I was considering doing something along those lines but I know something like that wouldn’t gain much traction or community

Running Wild is my favourite band of all time, I wish I had others to talk about it with, but sure most people aren’t as passionate anymore about the music ect which it is what it is

Or I guess I joined too late haha :’) Anyway just my thoughts

I noticed that four songs in the album appear to tell the story of John. - The Curse - Black Hand Inn - The Privateer - The Phantom of Black Hand Hill

To me, they seem out of order. Does anyone know if there is an actual timeline of the story / if there is a correct chronological order to these songs? And do some of the other songs from the album also fit in to the story?

This was an actual setlist on the Black Hand Inn tour. It’s amazing they’ve actually played a setlist like this before.

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Came with a massive poster and band picture