RAGE - New Album Art Revealed; Guitarist Victor Smolski Working On Bonus Material
November 3, 2009, 15 years ago
Long-running German metallers RAGE recently announced that their new album, Strings To A Web, will be released on February, 5th 2010.
Guitarist Victor Smolski has issued the following update:
"At the moment I'm working on the bonus material, on which parts of various Rage shows on festivals like Wacken Open Air and Masters Of Rock are collected."Strings To A Web (artwork at left, click image to enlarge) was recorded at the Twilight Hall Studio and produced by Charlie Bauerfeind (BLIND GUARDIAN, HAMMERFALL and more).
The artwork was done by Thomas Ewerhard (AVANTASIA, THERION and more), showing their soundchaser as a spider, caught in a web.
"I am really proud of the album, we hardly ever sounded more inspired and it is an absolute highlight in our career“, says founding member, bass player and vocalist Peavy Wagner.Drummer André Hilgers adds: "This album shows all the different faces and characters and I call it the most enormous and multifarious record I ever recorded."
The album includes melodic and hymnic tracks such as 'Into The Light', 'The Beggars Last Dime', as well as powerful thrash attacks like 'Purified' or the final track 'Tomorrow Never Comes'. But the heart of the record is the 16-minute long masterpiece 'Empty Hollow', a progressive fairytale that unites everything Rage is about.
"You can compare 'Empty Hollow' with our Lingua Mortis Suite from the Speak Of The Dead record. Theis song was recorded with an orchestra and is devided into five parts. As a band we have discovered a lot of new possibilities and elements, even in Peavy’s vocals, my way of playing guitar or the arrangements in Andre’s drumming“, says Victor Smolski.
Strings To A Web will be released on vinyl, jewelcase and a special limited digibook with great bonus material.
Further updates to follow.
