Calling the Wild is the seventh solo album by German hard rock singer Doro Pesch.

Motörhead singer Lemmy Kilmister contributed two songs that were independently produced in Los Angeles, and so did former The Sisters of Mercy guitarist Andreas Bruhn in Germany.

The music of Calling the Wild trades the industrial and electronic sounds present in Love Me in Black for straight heavy metal, filling the tracks with riffs and guitar solos galore.

The remixed songs from the previous album had the drum machine parts replaced by live tracks by German drummer Thomas Franke, with guitar solos provided by former Detente guitarist Mario Parillo and by Jürgen Engler himself.

Of the latter, Doro said: "He was mixing his record in New York… The guys in my band and my engineer were laying down basic tracks and they met Slash hanging out backstage at a Type O Negative gig.