Speak of the Dead is the seventeenth studio album by the German heavy metal

Heavy metal music

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 band Rage

Rage (band)

Rage are a German heavy metal band, formed in 1984. They were part of the German heavy/speed/power metal scene to emerge in the early to mid 1980s, along with bands such as Helloween, Running Wild and Blind Guardian.-Background:...

, released in 2006 by Nuclear Blast

Nuclear Blast

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. The album contains a mix of different heavy metal music genres, ranging from symphonic and progressive to fast and brutal thrash metal. The band go back to the album Lingua Mortis themes and atmospheres in the suite that opens the album, using a full symphonic orchestra recorded in Minsk

Minsk

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, Belarus

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Track listing

1. "Suite Lingua Mortis" (Victor Smolski
   Victor Smolski
   Victor Dmitrievich Smolski is a Belarusian musician, composer and multi-instrumentalist. He is a constant member of the German heavy metal band Rage.-Biography:...
   
   , Peter Wagner
   Peavy Wagner
   Peter "Peavy" Wagner is a German heavy metal musician. He is best known for being singer and bassist of the band Rage.- Biography :...
   
   )
   1. "Mortituri Te Salutant" (instrumental) - 0:57
   2. "Prelude of Souls" (instrumental) - 2:46
   3. "Innocent" - 5:36
   4. "Depression" (instrumental) - 1:12
   5. "No Regrets" - 4:52
   6. "Confusion" (instrumental) - 1:45
   7. "Black" (instrumental) - 0:51
   8. "Beauty" - 3:53
2. "No Fear" (Smolski, Wagner) - 5:31
3. "Soul Survivor" (Wagner) - 3:41
4. "Full Moon" (Wagner) - 4:53
5. "Kill Your Gods" (Smolski, Wagner) - 5:13
6. "Turn My World Around" (Wagner) - 3:58
7. "Be with Me or Be Gone" (Wagner) - 3:47
8. "Speak of the Dead" (Wagner) - 4:06

Bonus tracks

9. "La Luna Reine" (Spanish version of "Full Moon") (Wagner) - 4:52
9. "Vollmond" (German version of "Full Moon") (Wagner) - 4:54
9. "Полнолуние" (Russian version of "Full Moon") (Wagner) - 4:52
9. "Michi-Shi Tsuki" (Japanese version of "Full Moon") (Wagner) - 4:52

• The four different versions of "Full Moon" are special releases in their home country

Band members

• Peter "Peavy" Wagner
  Peavy Wagner
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   - vocals, bass
  Bass guitar
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• Victor Smolski
  Victor Smolski
  Victor Dmitrievich Smolski is a Belarusian musician, composer and multi-instrumentalist. He is a constant member of the German heavy metal band Rage.-Biography:...
  
   - guitar
  Guitar
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  s, piano
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  , keyboards
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  , cello
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  , orchestral arrangements
• Mike Terrana
  Mike Terrana
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   - drum
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  s and percussion

Additional musicians

• Inspector Symphonic Orchestra conducted by Andrey Zubrich
• Thomas Hackmann - backing vocals

Production

• Ingo 'Charly' Czajkowski - producer, engineer
• Charlie Bauerfeind
  Charlie Bauerfeind
  Charlie Bauerfeind is a German sound engineer and producer who has worked mostly with power metal bands such as Angra, Blind Guardian, Helloween, Primal Fear, Rage, HammerFall and Saxon....
  
  - mixing, mastering
• Jan Rubach - additional digital editing