Rage No rest for the wicked! Only two years after the blasting last output "Speak Of The Dead" and one year after the impressive CD/DVD-set "Live In St. Petersburg", several tours and festivals, RAGE are back with their newest effort: "Carved In Stone". While "Speak Of The Dead" continued the symphonic concept of "Lingua Mortis" from 1996, "Carved In Stone" is a "regular" RAGE album - but still a special one: It's easily the heaviest one since "Black in Mind" from 1995. 10 songs, 10 grenades - full throttle ahead! Thrashy,
powerful Metal at it's best!

Again, singer/bass player Peavy Wagner and guitar wizard Victor Smolski are showing, what an impressive songwriting team they became over the past years of their collaboration. Also the integration of a new bandmember, drummer André Hilgers, passed off without any problems: The drumming is full of fresh ideas, pounding, dynamic and challenging at the same time. RAGE are a unity again!

This time, the band wanted to focus on straight songs without experiments - spiced with heavy riffs and haunting melodies. "Carved In Stone" is unbelievably heavy and catchy at the same time. The band recorded the album with long time engineer Charly Czajkowski, the mixing duties were once again overtaken by the legendary Charlie Bauerfeind. Count on a splendid production. "Carved In Stone" is another milestone  in the long-running history of this german Metal legend and will surely not disappoint any fan!

The Rage story begins way back in 1984, when their debut album "Prayers of Steel" was released. Albums came out at regular intervals, and Rage toured Europe indefatigable, making an abidingly and enthusiastic fanbase. Their 1992 album release "Trapped" marked their international breakthrough, tours through Asia, Russia and South America succeeding regularly after every new release. With new line-up, Rage realize their work "Lingua Mortis" in 1996, the first classical album by a German metal act. Following, Rage plus orchestra did a celebrated tour and played several European festivals. Their thirteenth album "XIII" saw the light of day in March 1998, marking not only another highlight in the band's career but also the beginning of a new chapter in their line-up: the subsequent album "Ghosts" was followed by a severe personnel change, where guitar player and multiinstrumentalist Victor Smolski became member of the band. Together with Peavy Wagner, Victor Smolski is musical head in the current Rage, not possible, imagine Rage without him.

The new line-up had their baptism of fire at the Wacken Open Air in August 1999, presenting an impressive work with the "Welcome To The Other Side" album. Their subsequent releases "Unity" and "Soundchaser" met with equally enthusiastic reactions from press and fans alike, and the appertaining tours turned into veritable triumphal marches. In 2004 Rage celebrated their 20th anniversary with "From The Cradle To The Stage", documenting, that no Rage line-up was as strong a force on stage as the one featuring Wagner, Smolski and Terrana. The European tour 2004 guaranteed to confirm this impression. The RAGE album "Speak Of The Dead", which was released in 2006, has also gone down super at the international press, and during an sold out European tour, the concert in St.Petersburg was recorded for a live DVD called "Full Moon In St. Petersburg". Due to personal and musical differences, RAGE split with Mike Terrana end of 2006, and André Hilgers became new drummer of RAGE. Andrés first concerts were the shows together with the "Lingua Mortis
Orchestra" in Russia, Ukrain, Czech Republic and also at the "Wacken Open Air" festival in Germany, where the show infront of 100.000 people was recorded. This material was used to become a bonus DVD for the upcoming RAGE
studio album"Carved In Stone".

With their new album „STRINGS TO A WEB“ the legendary German Heavy Metal act RAGE returns with a brandnew masterpiece! Recorded at the „Twilight Hall Studio“ (BLIND GUARDIAN, SAXON) and produced by Victor Smolski and their
long term friend Charlie Bauerfeind (HAMMERFALL, HELLOWEEN and more), „STRINGS TO A WEB“ became another brillant highlight in the history of this outstanding and unique trio. It is a various album, showing all those different faces of the band, from pure Heavy Metal thunder, through classical and progressive landscapes, up to powerfull Thrash anthemns.

„STRINGS TO A WEB“ is like a journey through the history of the band, who also celebrated their 25th anniversary this year. A fresh, both straight and technically adapted album full of overwhelming emotion and pure magic. Over this quarter of a century, RAGE went through many changes, but always kept to their roots and developed their incomparable style. Be sure: There is no doubt that their current line-up is the strongest and best ever. Peavy’s voice is the main trademark, along with the guitar wizzard Victor Smolski and power drummer André Hilgers, who rounds up this „magic trio“.

Enoy melodic hymns like „Into The Light“ or „Hunter And Prey“, as well as aggressive tracks like „Purified“ and celebrate the opening „The Edge Of Darkness“. The heart of the album is the 17 minutes track „Empty Hollow“, divided into five chapters; a progressive and classical masterpiece in the vein of their „Lingua Mortis Suite“, but even more emotional, abundant and majestic. The album will be out on February 5th 2010, followed by a headliner tour a month later. The album will be also released as a limited edition digipak, along with a high quality bonus DVD with 15 songs in total. Main part is the „Wacken“ show from 2009, a special „Best of“ set featuring many of their eternal classics and exclusive guests like Schmier („Prayers Of Steel“, „Suicide“, „Down“), Hansi Kürsch („Set This World On Fire“, All I Want“, „Invisible Horizon“) and rocking queen Jen Majura („Lord Of The Flies“, „From The Cradle To The Grave“).

In addition to that you will even find more live clips, filmed at the „Masters of Rock“ and their show in Sofia in 2009. Finally the DVD completes with a short movie about Victor’s second fascinating passion – be surprised and moreover be sure: You will get a metallic value for money, that blows you away!!!