The Best from the Noise Years

Compilation album by Rage

Released

May 2, 1998

Recorded

1986-1994

Genre

Speed metal, power metal, heavy metal

Length

65:52

Label

Victor Entertainment/Noise Records

Producer

Rage, Sven Conquest, Armin Sabol

Rage chronology

XIII
(1998)

The Best from the Noise Years
(1998)

Ghosts
(1999)

The Best from the Noise Years is the first compilation album by German heavy metal band Rage, released in 1998 by Victor Entertainment. The album is made up of fifteen songs from the band's early albums (86-94), released by the Noise Records.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Original album	Length
1.	"Suicide"	Peter "Peavy" Wagner	Reign of Fear	4:04
2.	"Down by Law"	Wagner	Execution Guaranteed	3:23
3.	"Don't Fear the Winter"	Wagner	Perfect Man	3:27
4.	"Ashes"	Wagner	Extended Power	5:02
5.	"Invisible Horizons"	Wagner	Secrets in a Weird World	4:35
6.	"Light Into the Darkness"	Wagner	Secrets in a Weird World	4:50
7.	"Time Waits for Noone"	Manni Schmidt, Wagner	Secrets in a Weird World	4:49
8.	"Saddle the Wind"	Wagner	Reflections of a Shadow	4:06
9.	"Solitary Man"	Schmidt, Wagner	Trapped!	3:36
10.	"Enough Is Enough"	Schmidt, Wagner	Trapped!	6:42
11.	"Medicine"	Wagner	Trapped!	3:43
12.	"Firestorm"	Schmidt, Wagner	The Missing Link	4:57
13.	"Refuge"	Wagner	The Missing Link	3:39
14.	"Raw Caress"	Wagner	The Missing Link	5:24
15.	"Vertigo"	Wagner	10 Years in Rage	3:35

Personnel

Band members

Peter "Peavy" Wagner - vocals, bass
Jochen Schröder - guitars, on tracks 1-2
Rudy Graf - guitars, on tracks 1-2
Jörg Michael - drums, on tracks 1-2
Manni Schmidt - guitars, on tracks 3-14
Chris Ephthimiadis - drums, on tracks 3-14
Sven Fischer - guitars, on track 15
Spiros Efthimiadis - guitars, on track 15
Chris Ephthimiadis - drums, on track 15

Production

Sven Conquest - producer, engineer, mixing
Armin Sabol - producer

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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