Soundchaser

This is a concept album featuring a science fiction/horror story about the Soundchaser, Rage's mascot. A biomechanoid creature, crafted by the elders to serve as a sentinel, it has turned into a monster, attacking anything that issues a sound.

Track listing

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"Orgy of Destruction"		Mike Terrana, Victor Smolski	1:26
2.	"War of Worlds"	Peter "Peavy" Wagner	Smolski	6:07
3.	"Great Old Ones"	Wagner	Wagner	4:03
4.	"Soundchaser"	Wagner	Smolski	5:37
5.	"Defenders of the Ancient Life"	Wagner	Wagner	4:05
6.	"Secrets in a Weird World"	Wagner	Smolski	5:28
7.	"Flesh and Blood"	Wagner	Smolski	5:13
8.	"Human Metal"	Wagner	Smolski	5:27
9.	"See You in Heaven or Hell"	Wagner	Wagner	4:00
10.	"Falling from Grace, Pt. 1: Wake the Nightmares"	Wagner	Wagner	4:59
11.	"Falling from Grace, Pt. 2: Death Is on It's Way"	Wagner	Wagner	6:55
Total length:				53:20

Limited edition digi-pack bonus track
No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
12.	"French Bourrée"	Wagner	Johann Sebastian Bach, arr. Smolski	4:11

Japanese edition bonus track
No.	Title	Music	Length
12.	"Fugue No. 5 in D major (from The Well-Tempered Clavier Book II)" (Instrumental)	Johann Sebastian Bach, arr. Smolski	3:18

Personnel

Band members

Peter "Peavy" Wagner - vocals, bass
Victor Smolski - guitars, piano, keyboards, sitar, orchestral arrangements
Mike Terrana - drums

Additional musicians

Andi Deris - vocals on "Wake the Nightmares"
Thomas Hackmann - backing vocals

Production

Charlie Bauerfeind - producer, mixing, mastering
Ingo 'Charly' Czajkowski - engineer
Jan Rubach - additional digital editing

References

↑ "Rage - Soundchaser". Encyclopaedia Metallum. Retrieved 2011-09-23.

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

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Monday, December 29, 2014. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.