Perfect Man (Rage album)

Perfect Man

Studio album by Rage

Released

6 June 1988

Recorded

Sky Trak Studios, Berlin, February-March 1988

Genre

Speed metal

Length

43:46

Label

Noise

Producer

Armin Sabol

Rage chronology

Execution Guaranteed
(1987)

Perfect Man
(1988)

Secrets in a Weird World
(1989)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
Martin Popoff	^[2]

Perfect Man is the third full-length album released by the heavy metal band Rage in 1988. It's the first album from the Refuge Years line-up, with the new members Manni Schmidt and Chris Efthimiadis. The album was remastered by Noise/Sanctuary in 2002 with slightly altered cover art, and five bonus tracks.^[3]

Track listing

All lyrics by Peter Wagner, music as indicated

"Wasteland" (Wagner) - 3:26
"In the Darkest Hour" (Wagner) - 3:17
"Animal Instinct" (Manni Schmidt, Wagner) - 3:48
"Perfect Man" (Wagner) - 3:35
"Sinister Thinking" (Schmidt, Wagner) - 3:18
"Supersonic Hydromatic" (Schmidt, Wagner) - 3:34
"Don't Fear the Winter" (Wagner) - 3:27
"Death in the Afternoon" (Wagner) - 3:56
"A Pilgrim's Path" (Wagner) - 4:27
"Time and Place" (Schmidt, Wagner) - 4:15
"Round Trip" (Schmidt, Wagner) - 3:25
"Between the Lines" (Schmidt, Wagner) - 3:18

Remastered CD edition bonus tracks

"Symbols of Our Fear" (Wagner) - 3:36
"Neurotic" (Wagner) - 3:02
"Shame on You" (live, originally released on Power of Metal in 1994) (Schmidt, Wagner) - 4:30
"Don't Fear the Winter" (live, originally released on Power of Metal in 1994) (Wagner) - 3:56
"Certain Days" (live, originally released on Power of Metal in 1994) (Wagner) - 5:32
"Last Goodbye" (Wagner) - 4:22
"Not Forever" (acoustic) (Wagner) - 4:06 (previously unreleased)

Personnel

Band members

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

Production

Armin Sabol - producer, arrangements
Will Reid-Dick - engineer, mixing
Karl-Ulrich Walterbach - executive producer

References

↑ Rivadavia, Eduardo. "Rage Perfect Man review". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 2011-09-11.
↑ Popoff, Martin (1 November 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. ISBN 978-1894959315.
↑ "Rage - Perfect Man". Encyclopaedia Metallum. Retrieved 2011-09-11.

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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