XIII (Rage album)

XIII is the 12th full-length album by the German heavy metal band Rage, and the second collaboration with the Lingua Mortis Orchestra. It was released in 1998.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Rock Hard (de)	9.5/10^[1]

In 2005, XIII was ranked number 272 in Rock Hard magazine's book of The 500 Greatest Rock & Metal Albums of All Time.^[2]

Track listing

All lyrics written by Peter "Peavy" Wagner, except where noted.

No.	Title	Music	Length
1.	"Overture"	Christian Wolf	1:55
2.	"From the Cradle to the Grave"	Wagner, Spiros Efthimiadis	4:51
3.	"Days of December"	Wagner	4:35
4.	"Sign of Heaven"	Wagner	4:17
5.	"Incomplete"	Wagner, Wolf	5:10
6.	"Turn the Page"	Wagner	5:03
7.	"Heartblood"	Wagner, Chris Ephthimiadis, S. Efthimiadis	6:21
8.	"Over and Over"	Wagner, S. Efthimiadis, Sven Fischer	3:48
9.	"In Vain (I Won't Go Down)"	Wagner, Wolf	5:19
10.	"Immortal Sin"	Wagner	5:28
11.	"Paint It, Black" (The Rolling Stones cover)		4:34
12.	"Just Alone"	Wagner, S. Efthimiadis, Fischer	6:24
13.	"XIII"		0:05

Limited edition bonus tracks

Track listing
No.	Title	Music	Length
14.	"Another Wasted Day"	Wagner, Fischer	4:56
15.	"Tom Sawyer" (Rush cover)		4:24

Personnel

Band members

Peter "Peavy" Wagner - vocals, bass
Spiros Efthimiadis - guitars
Sven Fischer - guitars
Chris Efthimiadis - drums

Additional musicians

Christian Wolff - piano
Lingua Mortis Orchestra

Production

Christian Wolff - producer
Ronald Prent - mixing, mastering
Sander Van Der Heide - mastering

References

↑ Kühnemund, Götz. "Rock Hard review". issue 131. Retrieved 8 June 2013.
↑ [...], Rock Hard (Hrsg.). [Red.: Michael Rensen. Mitarb.: Götz Kühnemund] (2005). Best of Rock & Metal die 500 stärksten Scheiben aller Zeiten. Königswinter: Heel. p. 105. ISBN 3-89880-517-4.

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)

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