RAGE frontman Peavy Wagner and guitarist Victor Smolksi have issued a short Christmas greeting to the fans at this location. It is available in English and German.

The band has also made an instrumental version of their song 'Straight To Hell' available for download. Click here to check it out.

As previously reported, Rage recently parted ways with drummer Mike Terrana. Wagner and Smolski issued the following update:

"From now on we won't continue our collaboration with Mike because of personal and musical differences that have been existing for a while now and became unbearable.

This cut is definitely not easy for us - but to avoid damage to Rage we have no other choice.

Unfortunately, there's not much left from our former unity. A while ago comunication between Mike and us broke down completely, so we have to pull the emergency brake.

We decided to work with a new drummer in the future because we don't want to ruin it all to a point where there's no future at all. We want to keep our power and joy in music, so there's no other way.

We are aware how much this line up meant to you (and us) but that's life. A band, especially a three-piece, is like a relationship. Over the years we just drifted apart. We wish Mike all the best for his further career.

Nevertheless, there's a bright perspective in front of us: We definitely won't cancel a single show and are working intensely at the moment to present you a suitable new drummer soon. We have lots of plans for the next year , among others we'll play some exclusive orchestra shows for you.

We hope you all keep the faith in the future and promise to keep up our quality level to 100%

See ya soon! Rage on!

Yours,

Peavy & Victor