Prayers of Steel

Studio album by Avenger

Released

1985

Recorded

Studio Mahn, October 1984, August 1985

Genre

Speed metal, heavy metal

Length

42:31

Label

Wishbone Records

Producer

Ralf Hubert

Avenger chronology

Prayers of Steel
(1985)

Depraved to Black
(1985)

Prayers of Steel is the name of the only full-length album released by the German heavy metal band Avenger in 1985, before they changed their name to Rage. The only other release that followed under the name Avenger was the EP Depraved to Black (1985 also). The German label GUN Records reissued the album on CD in 1995, including the track of the EP.^[1]

Track listing

"Battlefield" (Jochen Schröder, Peter Wagner) - 2:44
"South Cross Union" (Schröder, Wagner) - 3:36
"Prayers of Steel" (Schröder, Alf Meyerratken, Wagner) - 6:08
"Halloween" (Wagner) - 3:49
"Faster Than Hell" (Schröder, Wagner) - 3:16
"Adoration" (Schröder, Wagner) - 3:28
"Rise of the Creature" (Meyerratken, Schröder) - 5:23
"Sword Made of Steel" (Meyerratken, Schröder, Wagner) - 5:02
"Blood Lust" (Schröder, Wagner) - 4:47
"Assorted by Satan" (Meyerratken, Schröder, Wagner) - 4:04

Credits

Peter Wagner (Peavy) - Vocals, Bass
Jochen Schröder - Guitars
Alf Meyerratken - Guitars
Jörg Michael - Drums

References

↑ "Avenger - Prayers of Steel". Encyclopaedia Metallum. Retrieved 2011-09-10.

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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Prayers of Steel

Track listing

Credits

References

See also