Gates To Purgatory
by Running Wild
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Running Wild bestography
Gates To Purgatory is ranked 6th best out of 16 albums by Running Wild on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Running Wild is Pile Of Skulls which is ranked number 12095 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 96.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Gates To Purgatory track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Gates To Purgatory rankings
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | MasterOfPuppets | Top 16 Music Albums of 1984 | 7/16 | 3 |
| 2026 | MasterOfPuppets | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 65/100 | 7 |
| 2026 |  jeremy9 | Top 61 Music Albums of 1984 | 42/61 | 2 |
| 2026 |  Repo | Top 90 Music Albums of 1984 | 60/90 | 2 |
| 2026 | MasterOfPuppets | Top 500 Albums: 301-400 | 22/100 | - |
| 2024 | LosWochos | Top 99 Music Albums of 1984 | 95/99 | 0 |
| 2023 | Repo | 1984: Metal | 19/72 | - |
| 2014 |  Vaggelis | Top 100 Music Albums of 1984 | 51/100 | 3 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 8 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 16 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| 01/25/2026 01:43 | mizzle | 1,411 | 82/100 | |
| 05/27/2023 21:51 |  zags7000 | 20,410 | 64/100 | |
| 02/26/2023 15:04 | Fevernova | 3,137 | 82/100 | |
| 10/30/2022 10:41 | Repo | 2,172 | 85/100 | |
| 10/22/2022 19:06 | LosWochos | 46,869 | 75/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 69.9/100, a mean average of 68.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 68.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.4.
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Repo 10/30/2022 10:41 | #290903
'84:a Steel Wool
Aka Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
The Setting: "I personally discovered Judas Priest around ’78,” Rolf Kasparek, lead vocalist & guitarist of Running Wild, continues on the group that gave him his band's name. “They were on a TV show called ‘Rock Forever’ and I wanted to get their record, so I went to the shop and you couldn’t buy ‘Killing Machine’ so I brought ‘Sin After Sin’ and a week after I bought ‘Stained Class’ and around ’79 the live album came out , and I just brought it immediately. I was so blown away, it was such a great sound. I thought, I wanna do that,” Rolf smiles. “We didn’t try to copy Judas Priest, we were not that good" , "so we had to find our own way!"
The Listen: Conjure 80s Metal in your heads. Think about all the bands that mattered back then... Priest, Metallica, Motley Crue, Venom, Accept, etc. Good! Now strip away all the outer layers. All the sub-genres. All the stylings. The ridiculous over-the-top imagery. Glam, Black, Death, Thrash, NWOBHM. Ok! Now take it ONE step further and strip out location – Canada, England, USA, Japan. And THIS album - Gates To Purgatory - is what you get - concentrated, balled-up into-a-fist '80s Metal. It ain’t fast. And it sure ain’t pretty. BUT like steel wool, it gets the dirty job done. Keeping your domicile safe from the rat strewn streets just outside. You see, rats can’t chew through steel wool. Well they can, if you want to get technical about it. BUT, it’s sort of a kamikaze mission. As with each chew, the steel wool slices though the soft mucosa of their mouth, and eventually, even if they make it though, they bleed out within days. So, yeah. Steel wool is for keeping rodent scum from doing a little B&E. And I'm telling ya, in 1984, before hey hit the high seas, Running Wild were the steel wool of the metal world's tool shop!
The Verdict: Teutonic crushing mayhem. And the true sequel to Accept's Restless & Wild. They're at the slower end of the speed metal terrain, but I actually think that helps their cause. Hulk like to SMASH to it! This is what he listened to before matches on Sakaar!
The Rating: Twisted Evil Twisted Evil Twisted Evil Twisted Evil
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