Album: Black Hand Inn by Running Wild (1994)
Genre: Heavy Metal | Style: Rock/Pop
Record Label: SPV GmbH
Format: Album

Description: Black Hand Inn is the eighth Running Wild studio album, released March 24, 1994 by Noise Records. It is a loose concept album about a resurrected man, against a backdrop of piracy, foreseeing Armageddon.
The albums story starts in The Curse which a man by the name of John Xenir(played by Rolf Kasperek) has been condemned to death for using forbidden powers and is burned at the stake to save his soul. After the fire burns out all that is left is a blackened and charred hand. In the title track John is alive and creates his own inn in a grove with the sign of a black hand on the front door. He shows to his patrons his powers by predicting their futures.A priest happens to see his powers and threatens him and calls him a devil however John unfazed tells the man that long ago his was burned away that the priest is really the evil one.
The album has sold over 200,000 records worldwide.

Artist Background: Running Wild is a German heavy metal band, formed in 1976 in Hamburg. They were part of the German metal scene to emerge in the early to mid-1980s. Although the earlier releases contained satanic themes and imagery, Gerald "Preacher" Warnecke, the guitar player of the band, was studying theology at the time and is a vicar in Cologne now. On April 17, 2009 Rolf announced that Running Wild had split-up. Their last show was at Wacken Open Air on July 30, 2009. It was recorded for CD and DVD rele... Part of the Hamburg, Germany music scene. Emerged in the 1970s era. Associated with Heavy Metal movement. Known for Rock/Pop style.

Related Artists: Grave Digger, Gamma Ray, Manowar, U.D.O.

Music Scene: Part of the Hamburg, Germany music scene. Emerged in the 1970s era. Associated with Heavy Metal movement. Known for Rock/Pop style.

Tags: Heavy Metal, Rock/Pop, 1990s, Album, SPV GmbH

Additional Context: Available on Discogs marketplace


Black Hand Inn is the eighth Running Wild studio album, released March 24, 1994 by Noise Records. It is a loose concept album about a resurrected man, against a backdrop of piracy, foreseeing Armageddon.
The albums story starts in The Curse which a man by the name of John Xenir(played by Rolf Kasperek) has been condemned to death for using forbidden powers and is burned at the stake to save his soul. After the fire burns out all that is left is a blackened and charred hand. In the title track John is alive and creates his own inn in a grove with the sign of a black hand on the front door. He shows to his patrons his powers by predicting their futures.A priest happens to see his powers and threatens him and calls him a devil however John unfazed tells the man that long ago his was burned away that the priest is really the evil one.
The album has sold over 200,000 records worldwide.

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