Don't Fear the Winter

"Don't Fear the Winter"

Song by Rage

Recorded

Sky Trak Studios, Berlin, February–March, 1988

Genre

Speed metal

Length

3:27

Armin Sabol

Perfect Man track listing

"Supersonic Hydromatic"
(6)

"Don't Fear the Winter"
(7)

"Death in the Afternoon"
(8)

"Don't Fear the Winter" is a song by the German speed metal band Rage, seventh track from the second studio album, Perfect Man. It was written by Peter "Peavy" Wagner, Rage's frontman. The song was the first classic of the band and is one of the best known songs by Rage. A music video was made for the track in 1988. It is very common on Rage's concert setlists. Parts of the song has featured on the medleys "The Blow in a Row", from 10 Years in Rage, and symphonic piano version in Lingua Mortis. The song has a re-recorded version in 2001, as a bonus track for the album Welcome to the Other Side.

Personnel

Band members

Peter "Peavy" Wagner - vocals, bass
Manni Schmidt - guitars
Chris Ephthimiadis - drums

Production

Armin Sabol - producer, arrangements

External links

Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

Rage

Peter "Peavy" Wagner Marcos Rodriguez Vassilios "Lucky" Maniatopoulos Alf Meyerratken Thomas Grüning Jochen Schröder Jörg Michael Rudi Graf Manni Schmidt Chris Efthimiadis Ulli Cohler Spiros Efthimiadis Sven Fischer Christian Wolff Victor Smolski Mike Terrana André Hilgers

Studio albums	Prayers of Steel (as "Avenger", 1985) Reign of Fear (1986) Execution Guaranteed (1987) Perfect Man (1988) Secrets in a Weird World (1989) Reflections of a Shadow (1990) Trapped! (1992) The Missing Link (1993) 10 Years in Rage (1994) Black in Mind (1995) Lingua Mortis (1996) End of All Days (1996) XIII (1998) Ghosts (1999) Welcome to the Other Side (2001) Unity (2002) Soundchaser (2003) Speak of the Dead (2006) Carved in Stone (2008) Strings to a Web (2010) 21 (2012) LMO (2013) (with Lingua Mortis Orchestra)

EP	Depraved to Black (as "Avenger", 1985) Extended Power (1991) Beyond the Wall (1992) Refuge (Japan) (1994) Higher than the Sky (Japan) (1996) Live from the Vault (Japan) (1997) In Vain "Rage in Acoustic" (1998) "Gib Dich Nie Auf / Never Give Up" (2009) My Way (2016)

Live albums	Power of Metal (1993) From the Cradle to the Stage (2004) Full Moon in St. Petersburg (2007) Live in Tokyo (2012)

Compilation albums	The Best from the Noise Years (1998) Best of – All G.U.N. Years (2001) All G.U.N. Bonustracks (2002) The Soundchaser Archives (2014)

Box sets	The Lingua Mortis Trilogy (The Classic Collection) (2002) The Refuge Years (2016)

Singles	"Invisible Horizons" "Refuge" "The Crawling Chaos" "Higher than the Sky" "From the Cradle to the Grave" "In Vain" "Full Moon" "No Fear" "Gib Dich Nie Auf" / "Never Give Up" "Into the Light" / "Purified" "Cleansed by Fire"

Other songs	"Prayers of Steel" "Don't Fear the Winter" "Solitary Man" "Enough is Enough" "Beyond the Wall of Sleep" "Alive but Dead" "Down" "War of Worlds" "Sounchaser" "Falling from Grace" "Suite Lingua Mortis" "Twenty One"

Video releasses	The Video Link (1994) Metal Meets Classic Live (2001) From the Cradle to the Stage (2004) Full Moon in St. Petersburg (2007) Live at Wacken '09 (2009) Live at Rock Hard Festival/70000 Tons of Metal (2013)

Related articles	Lingua Mortis Orchestra Refuge Axel Rudi Pell Grave Digger Masterplan Mekong Delta Bassinvaders Nuclear Blast All-Stars: Into the Light A Tribute to Judas Priest: Legends of Metal A Tribute to the Beast A Tribute to the Four Horsemen

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