Hey Steve,I just started getting into Running Wild,never listened to them before,I actually like over half of thier discography!  The last album that was decent was year 2000 "Victory". 2002 "The Brotherhood" and 2005 Vouge En Rouge albums sounded like Rolf changed the style of the band slightly,and I just couldn't get into those albums. The best Running Wild album in my opinion is 1995 "Masquerade",what a classic!

As for all these shit bands out today,I'm with you on this. Bands have slid off the traditional forfront of "metal". Take a look at Poland's "Behemoth"...thier sound is still death metal but its sooooo fucking commercial its ruined the "underground" flavor to me,take a look at thier new video,I'm sure its on the lame Head Banger's ball,but take a look at it....it is too commercial,this is not what death metal was all about. I've listened to death metal since it came out,I remember buying Onslaught's first album in 1985 when it first came out...on the back of the album it said "Death Metal At It's Heaviest".  This entire genre "sucks" now,and when people ask me if I like "death metal" I say "NO". Because all the "true" death metal bands they people that ask me never heard of before!!!! Yes,it all "sucks" ass now Steve,and it is "ruined".

		Steve Forrest wrote:
		Exactly! What the fuck happened to metal? What happened to Running Wild? or Bloodlust? or Sacred Reich? And where the fuck did Converge come from? God Damn it! I've been a metal fan since I was 6! It all started with Ted Nugent's Weekend Warriors album. After the turn of the century (actually, maybe a few years before), metal took a nosedive.  I'm just extremely thankful for the older bands that are still here and trying to keep metal alive. Judas Priest, Dio, Voivod, etc. THANK YOU!  (Quoting Message by J.D. DIAMOND from Wednesday, December 09, 2009 4:20:06 PM)   J.D. DIAMOND wrote:   Yes. They are not "DEATH METAL" at all. They are a bunch of OZZ FEST posers that claim to play death metal and the shit band Dimmu Borgir claims to play black metal,they came out in 96' in Norway as a trend band and have been ever since,they are NOT like the old black metal bands of Norway at all. Going back to these so-called"death metal" bands,yeah they suck and they are the ones that are killing this genre,its already "dead". Fucking bastards!!!!!      Steve Forrest wrote:   I think I said this maybe a year ago, but I also think all of today's popular death/thrash bands are WAY over rated! In Flames, Soilwork, Arch Enemy, Lacuna Coil, Lamb Of God, Dimmu Borgir, Static X, holy shit, what a bunch of mindless crap! I don't mind some new cds by old bands (Grave Digger, Helloween, Voivod for example), but FUCK all these newer bands that are on every cover of every metal magazine! Edited at: Thursday, December 10, 2009 1:16:03 AM