Strings to a Web

Strings to a Web
Studio album by Rage
Released 5 February 2010
Recorded Twilight Hall Studios, Grefrath, Germany, August-September 2009
Genre Power metal, progressive metal, thrash metal
Length 54:48
Label Nuclear Blast
Producer Victor Smolski, Charlie Bauerfeind
Rage chronology
Carved in Stone
(2008)		 Strings to a Web
(2010)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Sputnikmusic [2]
Lords of Metal (81/100)[3]
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Strings to a Web is the 19th studio album by the German heavy metal band Rage, released in Europe on February 5 2009 through Nuclear Blast Records. The American and Japanese editions of the album were released in a special two-disc set, which included a DVD with live performances and videos.[4]

Contents

Track listing

All tracks by Victor Smolski and Peter Wagner, excepte where indicated

  1. "The Edge of Darkness" - 4:30
  2. "Hunter and Prey" - 4:31
  3. "Into the Light" - 4:22
  4. "The Beggar's Last Dime" - 5:40

Empty Hollow

  1. "Empty Hollow" - 6:20
  2. "Strings to a Web" (Smolski) - 3:54
  3. "Fatal Grace" (Smolski) - 1:21
  4. "Connected" - 2:54
  5. "Empty Hollow (Reprise)" - 1:48
  1. "Saviour of the Dead" - 5:44
  2. "Hellgirl" - 4:11
  3. "Purified" (Wagner) - 3:46
  4. "Through Ages" - 2:06
  5. "Tomorrow Never Comes" - 3:41

Bonus DVD track listing

Live at Wacken Open Air 2009

  1. "Carved in Stone"
  2. "Higher Than the Sky"
  3. "Set This World on Fire" (featuring Hansi Kürsch)
  4. "All I Want" (featuring Hansi Kürsch)
  5. "Invisible Horizons" (featuring Hansi Kürsch)
  6. "Lord of the Flies" (featuring Jen Majura)
  7. "From the Cradle to the Grave" (featuring Jen Majura)
  8. "Prayers of Steel" (featuring Schmier)
  9. "Suicide" (featuring Schmier)
  10. "Down" (featuring Schmier)
  11. "Soundchaser"

Live at the Masters of Rock 2009

  1. "Set This World on Fire"
  2. "All I Want"

Live in Sofia 2009

  1. "Carved in Stone"

Rage Race 2009

  1. "Never Give Up"

Personnel

Band members

Additional musicians

Production

References

  1. ^ Rivadavia, Eduardo. "Rage Strings to a Web review". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. http://www.allmusic.com/album/strings-to-a-web-r1810443/review. Retrieved 2011-09-30. 
  2. ^ "Rage Strings to a Web". Sputnikmusic. 5 February 2010. http://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/34861/Rage-Strings-To-A-Web/. Retrieved 2011-10-01. 
  3. ^ Roks, Sjak. "Rage - Strings to a Web". Lords of Metal webzine. http://www.lordsofmetal.nl/showreview.php?id=15466&lang=en. Retrieved 2011-10-01. 
  4. ^ "RAGE Guitarist Victor Smolski Checks In". Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles. 15 June 2010. http://www.bravewords.com/news/140903. Retrieved 2011-10-01. 
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)