21 (Rage album)

Studio album by Rage

Released

February 24, 2012

Recorded

at Twilight Hall Studio

Genre

Power metal, Heavy metal

Length

58:06

Label

Nuclear Blast

Producer

Charlie Bauerfeind, Victor Smolski

Rage chronology

Strings to a Web
(2010)

21
(2012)

LMO
(2013)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Peek from the Pit	^[1]
Metal-Temple	^[2]
Metal Underground	^[3]

21 is the 20th studio album by German heavy metal band Rage released on February 24, 2012 through Nuclear Blast Records. The production were once again helmed by Charlie Bauerfeind. ^[4]

Track listing

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"House Wins" (Introduction)		Victor Smolski	1:30
2.	"Twenty One"	Peter "Peavy" Wagner	Smolski	6:16
3.	"Forever Dead"	Wagner	Smolski	6:20
4.	"Feel My Pain"	Wagner	Smolski	5:40
5.	"Serial Killer"	Wagner	Smolski, Wagner	5:45
6.	"Psycho Terror"	Wagner	André Hilgers, Smolski	6:57
7.	"Destiny"	Wagner	Smolski, Wagner	5:15
8.	"Death Romantic"	Wagner	Smolski, Wagner	5:59
9.	"Black and White"	Wagner	Smolski, Wagner	5:19
10.	"Concrete Wall"	Wagner	Smolski, Wagner	3:50
11.	"Eternally"	Wagner	Smolski	5:10
Total length:				58:06

Enhanced Part
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Rage Race 2011 Video" ("The Beggar's Last Dime" from Strings to a Web)	6:34

Bonus CD - Live in Tokyo

Recorded live at Shibuya O-East, Tokyo, 15-16 April 2010.

Bonus CD - Live in Tokyo
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Opening"	1:16
2.	"The Edge of Darkness"	5:15
3.	"Hunter and Prey"	5:45
4.	"Into the Light"	5:42
5.	"Drop Dead!"	5:30
6.	"Empty Hollow I: Empty Hollow"	8:58
7.	"Light Into the Darkness"	5:03
8.	"Higher than the Sky"	6:20
9.	"War of Worlds"	8:19
10.	"Carved in Stone"	4:37
11.	"Soundchaser"	5:49
12.	"Down"	7:45
Total length:		70:21

Personnel

Band Members

Additional musicians

Hacky Hackmann - backing vocals

Production

Charlie Bauerfeind - Producer, engineering, mixing, mastering
Victor Smolski - Producer, mixing, mastering
Heather Smith - Engineering
Thomas Geiger - Additional digital editing
Felipe Machado Franco - Cover art, Layout
Pia Kintrup - Photography

References

↑ "Peek from the Pit review".
↑ "21 Review at Metal-Temple". February 17, 2012. Retrieved May 23, 2012.
↑ "21 CD Review at Metal Underground". March 6, 2012. Retrieved May 23, 2012.
↑ "RAGE: New Album Artwork, Release Date Revealed". Blabbermouth. Retrieved Dec 1, 2011.

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

Studio albums	Prayers of Steel (as "Avenger", 1985) 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) 21 (2012) LMO (2013) (with Lingua Mortis Orchestra)

EP	Depraved to Black (as "Avenger", 1985) Extended Power (1991) Beyond the Wall (1992) Refuge (Japan) (1994) Higher than the Sky (Japan) (1996) Live from the Vault (Japan) (1997) In Vain "Rage in Acoustic" (1998) "Gib Dich Nie Auf / Never Give Up" (2009)

Live albums	Power of Metal (1993) From the Cradle to the Stage (2004) Full Moon in St. Petersburg (2007) Live in Tokyo (2012)

Compilation albums	The Best from the Noise Years (1998) Best of – All G.U.N. Years (2001) All G.U.N. Bonustracks (2002)

Box Sets	The Lingua Mortis Trilogy (The Classic Collection) (2002)

Singles	"Invisible Horizons" "Refuge" "The Crawling Chaos" "Higher than the Sky" "From the Cradle to the Grave" "In Vain" "Full Moon" "No Fear" "Gib Dich Nie Auf" / "Never Give Up" "Into the Light" / "Purified" "Cleansed by Fire"

Other Songs	"Prayers of Steel" "Don't Fear the Winter" "Solitary Man" "Enough is Enough" "Beyond the Wall of Sleep" "Alive but Dead" "Down" "War of Worlds" "Sounchaser" "Falling from Grace" "Suite Lingua Mortis" "Twenty One"

Video albums	The Video Link (1994) Metal Meets Classic Live (2001) From the Cradle to the Stage (2004) Full Moon in St. Petersburg (2007) Live at Wacken '09 (2009) Live at Rock Hard Festival/70000 Tons of Metal (2013)

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