Carved in Stone (Rage album)

Carved in Stone
Studio album by Rage
Released	22 February 2008
Recorded	VPS Studios, Hamm, Germany, August–October 2007
Genre	Power metal
Length	47:49
Label	Nuclear Blast
Producer	Rage, Charly Czajkowski
Rage chronology
Speak of the Dead (2006) Carved in Stone (2008) Strings to a Web (2010)

Carved in Stone is the 18th studio album by the German heavy metal band Rage. The album includes a bonus DVD with their full show at Wacken Open Air in August 2007 (featuring a symphonic orchestra from Minsk, Belarus, which under the name "Lingua Mortis Orchestra" toured with Rage in Europe) plus the videos for the songs "Lord of the Flies" and "Open My Grave".

Contents 1 Track listing 2 Reception 3 Personnel 3.1 Band members 3.2 Additional musicians 3.3 Production 4 References

Track listing

All lyrics by Peter Wagner, music by Victor Smolski, except as indicated below

1. "Carved in Stone" - 5:21
2. "Drop Dead!" - 4:13
3. "Gentle Murders" - 4:12
4. "Open My Grave" - 4:41
5. "Without You" (Wagner, Smolski) - 5:45
6. "Long Hard Road" (Wagner, Smolski) - 4:37
7. "One Step Ahead" - 5:05
8. "Lost in the Void" (Wagner, Smolski) - 4:14
9. "Mouth of Greed" (Wagner) - 3:56
10. "Lord of the Flies" (Wagner, Smolski) - 5:45

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Lords of Metal	(85/100)[1]
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Personnel

Band members

• Peter "Peavy" Wagner - vocals, bass
• Victor Smolski - guitars, keyboards, sitar, orchestral arrangements, mixing, mastering
• André Hilgers - drums

Additional musicians

• Thomas Hackmann, Jen Majura - backing vocals

Production

• Ingo 'Charly' Czajkowski - producer, engineer
• Charlie Bauerfeind - mixing, mastering
• Thomas Geiger - additional digital editing

References

Rage Peter "Peavy" Wagner · Victor Smolski · André Hilgers Alf Meyerratken · Thomas Grüning · Jochen Schröder · Jörg Michael · Rudi Graf · Manni Schmidt · Chris Efthimiadis · Ulli Cohler · Spiros Efthimiadis · Sven Fischer · Christian Wolff · Mike Terrana Avenger albums Prayers of Steel (1985) · Depraved to Black (EP, 1985) Studio albums Reign of Fear (1986) · Execution Guaranteed (1987) · Perfect Man (1988) · Secrets in a Weird World (1989) · Reflections of a Shadow (1990) · Trapped! (1992) · The Missing Link (1993) · 10 Years in Rage (1994) · Black in Mind (1995) · Lingua Mortis (1996) · End of All Days (1996) · XIII (1998) · Ghosts (1999) · Welcome to the Other Side (2001) · Unity (2002) · Soundchaser (2003) · Speak of the Dead (2006) · Carved in Stone (2008) · Strings to a Web (2010) EP Extended Power (1991) · Beyond the Wall (1992) · Refuge (Japan) (1993) · Higher Than the Sky (Japan) (1996) · Live from the Vault (Japan) (1997) · "Gib Dich Nie Auf / Never Give Up" (2009) Live Power of Metal (1994) · From the Cradle to the Stage (2004) · Full Moon in St. Petersburg (2007)