Soundchaser
2003 studio album by Rage
Soundchaser | ||||
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Cover art by Joachim Luetke | ||||
Studio album by Rage | ||||
Released | 7 October 2003 | |||
Recorded | April–May 2003 | |||
Studio | VPS Studios, Hamm, Germany | |||
Genre | Power metal, heavy metal | |||
Length | 53:20 | |||
Label | SPV/Steamhammer | |||
Producer | Rage, Charlie Bauerfeind | |||
Rage chronology | ||||
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Soundchaser is the 17th studio album by the German heavy metal band Rage, released in 2003 by SPV/Steamhammer.[1]
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 |
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1. | "Orgy of Destruction" | Mike Terrana, Victor Smolski | 1:26 | |
2. | "War of Worlds" | 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 Its Way" | Wagner | Wagner | 6:55 |
Total length: | 53:20 |
No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Length |
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12. | "French Bourrée" | Wagner | Johann Sebastian Bach, arr. Smolski | 4:11 |
No. | Title | Music | Length |
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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
- Peavy Wagner - vocals, bass guitar
- 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 23 September 2011.
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Rage
- Peavy Wagner
- Jean Bormann
- Stefan Weber
- Vassilios "Lucky" Maniatopoulos
- Alf Meyerratken
- Thomas Grüning
- Jochen Schroeder
- Jörg Michael
- Rudy Graf
- Manni Schmidt
- Chris Efthimiadis
- Spiros Efthimiadis
- Sven Fischer
- Mike Terrana
- Victor Smolski
- André Hilgers
- Marcos Rodriguez
- Prayers of Steel (as Avenger)
- Reign of Fear
- Execution Guaranteed
- Perfect Man
- Secrets in a Weird World
- Reflections of a Shadow
- Trapped!
- The Missing Link
- 10 Years in Rage
- Black in Mind
- Lingua Mortis
- End of All Days
- XIII
- Ghosts
- Welcome to the Other Side
- Unity
- Soundchaser
- Speak of the Dead
- Carved in Stone
- Strings to a Web
- 21
- LMO (with Lingua Mortis Orchestra)
- The Devil Strikes Again
- Seasons of the Black
- Wings of Rage
- Resurrection Day
- Depraved to Black (as Avenger)
- Extended Power
- Beyond the Wall
- Refuge
- Full Moon in St. Petersburg
- Live in Tokyo
- Lingua Mortis Orchestra
- 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