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
Beyond the Wall (1992)Beyond the Wall1992 The Missing Link (1993) Refuge (1994)Refuge1994
Singles from The Missing Link
"Refuge" Released: March 24, 1994

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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

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

Remastered CD edition bonus tracks

13. "Another Kind of Madness" (Wagner) - 5:11 (P Wagner)
14. "Truth Hits Everybody" (Sting) - 2:26 (The Police cover)
15. "I Can't Control Myself" (Reg Presley) - 2:48 (The Troggs cover)
16. "Beyond the Pale" (Craig Adams, Mick Brown, Simon Hinkler, Wayne Hussey) - 6:34 (The Mission cover)
17. "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

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