RAGE Members To Perform At Austrian Cancer Aid Charity Gig In February
January 11, 2007, 17 years ago
On February 24th RAGE frontman Peavy Wagner and guitarist Victor Smolski will perform at a charity gig in Vienna, Austria with SEQUOIA DENDRON at Headbangers Ball. They will be hitting the stage together to do a set featuring Rage material. All proceeds from the event will go to Austrian Children Cancer Aid.
As previously reported, Rage have enlisted new drummer André Hilgers (AXXIS, SILENT FORCE) to replace Mike Terrana, who left the band in early December. Peavy and Smolski recently issued the following statement:
"We proudly present our new man on the drums, André Hilgers. During works on the Nuclear Blast Anniversary album we were very surprised, how perfectly André's style matched to our new song 'Terrified'. So it was obvious, that we jammed through the Rage classics, and the sparks flew immediately. Andre had a lot of new ideas that fitted perfectly to our style and the understanding among us was harmonically. He brings a lot of fresh blood and power to the band and we have loads of fun again playing our music. Andre's 32 and he's from our area, what makes work a lot easier. With him he brings meanwhile 16 years of experience in studio and live work. He, as a metalfan from the beginning, followed the career of Rage from its start, so he's perfectly into our material ( even the old stuff). Though he's got extraordinary musical abilities, he never lost touch and stayed based, in all his musical projects he focused more on playing for the songs and bands, than to boost his ego."
