Rage

Rage, the long-running Hamburg heavy metal veterans, have announced that they were forced to cancel the dates of their upcoming South American tour. The band put out a short statement about it that doesn't give any solid reasons for the…

Label: SPV/Steamhammer RecordsRelease date: March 29, 2024Production: Rage & Peavy WagnerAlbum length: 94 min.Genre: Heavy Metal / Power MetalRating: 9.0/10 Rage are true veterans of European metal, with a pedigree that's…

Label: SPV/Steamhammer RecordsRelease date: 9/17/2021Production: RageAlbum length: 50.02 minGenre: Power MetalRating: 9.5/10 Resurrection day. The day we've been feverishly waiting for. The day when everything comes together and…

"A conformist, safe stance, but one Peavy still handles with skill and knows inside out, and once again it wins him a poker hand full of aces."

"Here are ten hand-picked power metal albums that came out twenty years ago, left a real mark on the power metal scene and the metal world in general, and make for especially sweet trips down memory lane."

Day three was defined above all by the excellent death metallers Gruesome, Japanese heavy metal veterans Loudness, the "quirky" experiment that is Igorrr, and Canadian giants Kataklysm.

Rage, the Hamburg metal veterans, and Firewind, fronted by Ozzy's guitar hero Gus G, hit the road together and make a stop in Salzburg!

The fact that times haven't been rosy for Rage for ages, and that the band lost quite a bit of live and compositional appeal after the split with Wagner and Smolski, is confirmed by the fact that Rage had to work two covers into their set…

With »Seasons of the Black«, the new incarnation of the cult band Rage has found the right creative platform, pushed the energy and mood of the previous album to an even higher level, and delivered a record that's looser and hungrier. Fans…

»The Devils Strikes Again« is an album some fans were right to be »afraid« of, but Peavy is far too experienced and cunning not to have taken every necessary precaution before steering this record, so he wouldn't accidentally hammer nails…

Despite a more than solid performance and a dream setlist that went on to include songs from the albums »Ghosts« (1999), »13« (1998), Welcome to the Other Side (2001) and »End of All Days« (1996), the more or less expected Down from »Unity«…

You could say that, in combination with both orchestras and the guest singers, Rage created an exceptionally beautiful album to close out an era of the band, one that shows the maturity of its creators' unsuspected talents, especially the…

A 30-track haul from the German metal veterans' 30th anniversary, dragged by Rage out of dusty archives, is a must for fans of the band, taking them through chapters of the band's history that have never been opened before.

"By now night had fallen over the grounds, and Accept used the backdrop to serve up their iron-clad repertoire, which of course included Fast as a Shark, Metal Heart and Balls to the Wall. Experiencing the Accept march in front of a…

Accept, the unbreakable standard-bearers of the most traditional heavy metal heritage, delivered the grand finale of the seventeenth Bang Your Head.

Put bluntly, the album »21« is »Carved In Stone« fixed down to the last detail and upgraded with a vengeance! A welcome and well-executed swerve away from "Strings To A Web", and Rage at their splendid best.

Location: Sachsenburg Floßländ / AustriaConcert date: 02.09.2010Attendance: 0Ticket price: 55,00€ (three-day ticket) With the summer of 2010 winding down, we're chasing the last scraps of this year's festival season! So the RockLine…

New Rage album "Strings To A Web", new tour! This time, guitar wizard and genius Victor Smolski filled us in on where things stand with German metallers Rage, before the band's show at the Backstage club in the Bavarian capital, at the very…

Author: Aleš PodbrežnikPhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Location: Backstage / Munich / GermanyConcert date: March 3, 2010Attendance: 450Ticket price: €24.00 Rage are Rage. They never let you down. Never. Least of all when it's time to drop a new…

"Strings To A Web" is a great Rage album that, considering the long-running band's road-weary mileage, thankfully shows no creative fatigue and washes away the doubts left by "Carved in Stone".

Author: Aleš Podbrežnik Venue: Parkhotel (Bambergsaal) / Villach / AustriaConcert date: 01.05.2009Attendance: 200Ticket price: €15.00 / €20.00 25 years is no small thing. A venomously crafted setlist meant for the band's most…

"The first day of the festival had no trouble earning the flattering nickname "Operation: Balingen". It made plenty of people's dreams come true, even though Queensryche already played the whole of "Operation: Mindcrime" live in Balingen…

Author: Aleš Podbrežnik Concert date: 27.06.2008Attendance: 2706Ticket price: 15000 This year's traditional Bang Your Head!!! festival, held on the outskirts of the little town of Balingen in the state of Baden Württemberg, in…

Rage. The new album »Carved In Stone«. Drummer Andre Hilgers (Axxis) is the band's newest member, stepping in for his excellency Mike Terrana. Sounds like a tall order at first glance. But only at first glance, because Rage aren't exactly…

Location: Szene / Vienna / AustriaConcert date: April 10, 2008Attendance: 650Ticket price: €26.00 The Rage show in originally announced Conegliano near Treviso on April 10, 2008 got moved to Florence, so we had to find a decent…

Location: Orpheum / Graz / AustriaConcert date: 08.04.2006Attendance: 300Ticket price: 30€ One of the coziest little venues around here, and after a longer break we're back! The staff who work there are incredibly friendly too, and…

This interview with Mike Terrana, drummer of the excellent German heavy metal trio Rage, who've been enjoying a fresh new spring for several years running, was done right before the band's gig in Graz (Orpheum hall), between 6:30 and 7:30…

Soundchaser is history, and as a nod to it Rage have penned a 20-minute epic suite, enriched with the sounds of the Prague "Lingua Mortis" orchestra, whom the band already worked with in the second half of the '90s

The story of the second concept album since "Ghosts" (1999) is in many ways strikingly similar to the sci-fi novels of H.P. Lovecraft. An almighty man, self-proclaimed rightful heir to the legacy of the great sages

This one is no joke anymore. After all these years of a long music career, it's now crystal clear what kind of music Peter "Peavy" Wagner has a nose for. With the lineup shaken up and back to the classic trio, a new creative era has begun…

Location: Vienna (Austria), Planet MusicConcert date: 07.11.2003Attendance: 800Ticket price: €26.00 Finally! Helloween closer to home on tour, a mere 450km away. Rage as the support act were the main reason I bit my lip and brushed aside…