Simone Appolloni's Album Reviews
Kasparek disbanded Running Wild in 2009 when Peter Jordan, the last of his collaborators, left the line-up. However, he secretly kept recording new music, releasing Shadowmaker in 2012, falsely crediting Jordan as guitarist (for gigs only) and marketing as a band return... but the guy is still not touring (a handful of concerts held since then). The resulting stuff is a continuation of his repetitive-as-hell fixation on Deep Purple/Iron Maiden/Twisted Sister-like Hard Rock with more mundane themes, grungy production, unrealstic guitar/drum sounds and a cover artwork that looks like a Combine soldier from the universe of Half-Life (so long for "pirate metal").
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