''Victory'' is the eleventh studio album by German band Running Wild. It is the third and final album in a trilogy of a theme of good versus evil, started with ''

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'' and continued with '' The Rivalry''.

Songs

"Tsar" is about the Russian Emperor

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Track listing

All tracks written by Rolf Kasparek except where noted

Personnel

Rolf Kasparek Running Wild is a German heavy metal band formed in Hamburg in 1976. They were part of the German metal scene to emerge in the early to mid-1980s, and are also considered to be one of the country's so-called "big four" of power metal, along w ...

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vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

Thilo Hermann Thilo Herrmann (born 19 September 1964 in Mühlhausen, East Germany) is a German heavy metal guitarist and songwriter who worked with Grave Digger from 2008-2009. History Prior to joining his latest band Grave Digger in 2007, Herrmann has p ...

– guitars * Thomas Smuszynski –

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

* Angelo Sasso –

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...

;Additional Musicians * Ralf Nowy –

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on "The Final Waltz" * Matthias Liebetruth –

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overdubs Overdubbing (also known as layering) is a technique used in audio recording in which audio tracks that have been pre-recorded are then played back and monitored, while simultaneously recording new, doubled, or augmented tracks onto one or more av ...

Production

* Gerhard Woelfe – Mixing * Thorsten Herbig – Photography * Rock 'n' Rolf – Producer * Peter Dell – Artwork, Layout * Rainer Holst – Mastering * Katharina Nowy – Producer (additional)

Charts

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Victory (Running Wild Album) 2000 albums Running Wild (band) albums GUN Records albums