The Missing Link (Rage album)

The Missing Link

Studio album by Rage

Released

1 August 1993

Recorded

Rocktech Studio, Berlin, Germany, May-June 1993

Genre

Speed metal, power metal, thrash metal

Length

45:46

Label

Noise

Producer

Sven Conquest

Rage chronology

Trapped!
(1992)

The Missing Link
(1993)

10 Years in Rage
(1994)

Singles from The Missing Link

"Refuge"
Released: March 24, 1994

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]

The Missing Link is the seventh full-length album released by the heavy metal band Rage in 1993. The album was remastered by Noise/Sanctuary in 2002 with five bonus tracks, three of them are from the EP Refuge.^[2]

Track listing

"Firestorm" (Manni Schmidt, Peter Wagner) - 4:56
"Nevermore" (Wagner) - 4:28
"Refuge" (Wagner) - 3:38
"The Pit and the Pendulum" (Chris Efthimiadis, Wagner) - 4:18
"From the Underworld" (Schmidt, Wagner) - 3:10
"Certain Days" (Wagner) - 5:46
"Who Dares?" (Efthimiadis, Wagner) - 4:29
"Wake Me When I'm Dead" (Wagner) - 5:22
"Lost in the Ice" (Wagner) - 9:50
"Her Diary's Black Pages" (Wagner) - 3:34
"The Missing Link" (Efthimiadis, Schmidt, Wagner) - 4:24
"Raw Caress" (Wagner) - 5:26

Remastered CD edition bonus tracks

"Another Kind of Madness" (Wagner) - 5:11 (P Wagner)
"Truth Hits Everybody" (Sting) - 2:26 (The Police cover)
"I Can't Control Myself" (Reg Presley) - 2:48 (The Troggs cover)
"Beyond the Pale" (Craig Adams, Mick Brown, Simon Hinkler, Wayne Hussey) - 6:34 (The Mission cover)
"Paranoid" (demo version) (Geezer Butler, Tony Iommi, Ozzy Osbourne, Bill Ward) - 2:40 (Black Sabbath cover)

Personnel

Band members

Peter "Peavy" Wagner - vocals, bass, arrangements
Manni Schmidt - guitars
Chris Ephthimiadis - drums

Production

Sven Conquest - producer, engineer, mixing
Bernd Steinwedel - mastering
Karl-Ulrich Walterbach - executive producer

References

↑ Rivadavia, Eduardo. "Rage The Missing Link review". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 2011-09-15.
↑ "Rage - The Missing Link". Encyclopaedia Metallum. Retrieved 2011-09-15.

Rage

Peter "Peavy" Wagner Marcos Rodriguez Vassilios "Lucky" Maniatopoulos Alf Meyerratken Thomas Grüning Jochen Schröder Jörg Michael Rudi Graf Manni Schmidt Chris Efthimiadis Ulli Cohler Spiros Efthimiadis Sven Fischer Christian Wolff Victor Smolski Mike Terrana André Hilgers

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) My Way (2016)

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) The Soundchaser Archives (2014)

Box sets	The Lingua Mortis Trilogy (The Classic Collection) (2002) The Refuge Years (2016)

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 releasses	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)

Related articles	Lingua Mortis Orchestra Refuge Axel Rudi Pell Grave Digger Masterplan Mekong Delta Bassinvaders Nuclear Blast All-Stars: Into the Light A Tribute to Judas Priest: Legends of Metal A Tribute to the Beast A Tribute to the Four Horsemen

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