A German metal band from Hamburg, Running Wild initially filled their act with
Satanic imagery, but achieved greater success when they changed direction to
adopt pirate themes on their third album 'Under Jolly Roger' in 1987. They had
their beginnings a decade earlier when Hamburg singer and guitarist Rolf
Kasparek got together with Uwe Bendig, Michael Hofmann and Jörg Schwarz in a
metal band called Granite Hearts, changing their name to Running Wild in 1979
and going through a long string of personnel changes along the way as they
played with occult imagery and death metal on th...