Strings to a Web is the 19th 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 Europe on February 5 2009 through Nuclear Blast Records. The American and Japanese editions of the album were released in a special two-disc set, which included a DVD with live performances and videos.

Track listing

All tracks by Victor Smolski and Peter Wagner, excepte where indicated

1. "The Edge of Darkness" - 4:30
2. "Hunter and Prey" - 4:31
3. "Into the Light" - 4:22
4. "The Beggar's Last Dime" - 5:40

Empty Hollow

5. "Empty Hollow" - 6:20
6. "Strings to a Web" (Smolski) - 3:54
7. "Fatal Grace" (Smolski) - 1:21
8. "Connected" - 2:54
9. "Empty Hollow (Reprise)" - 1:48
   10. "Saviour of the Dead" - 5:44
   11. "Hellgirl" - 4:11
   12. "Purified" (Wagner) - 3:46
   13. "Through Ages" - 2:06
   14. "Tomorrow Never Comes" - 3:41

Bonus DVD track listing

Live at Wacken Open Air

Wacken Open Air

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 2009

1. "Carved in Stone"
2. "Higher Than the Sky"
3. "Set This World on Fire" (featuring Hansi Kürsch
   Hansi Kürsch
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4. "All I Want" (featuring Hansi Kürsch)
5. "Invisible Horizons" (featuring Hansi Kürsch)
6. "Lord of the Flies" (featuring Jen Majura)
7. "From the Cradle to the Grave" (featuring Jen Majura)
8. "Prayers of Steel" (featuring Schmier)
9. "Suicide" (featuring Schmier)
10. "Down" (featuring Schmier)
11. "Soundchaser"

Live at the Masters of Rock

Masters of Rock (festival)

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 2009

12. "Set This World on Fire"
13. "All I Want"

Live in Sofia

Sofia

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 2009

14. "Carved in Stone"

Rage Race 2009

15. "Never Give Up"

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, keyboards, cello, producer, mixing, mastering, orchestral arrangements
• André Hilgers - drum
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Additional musicians

• Lingua Mortis Orchestra
• Hansi Kürsch
  Hansi Kürsch
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  , Jen Majura, Thomas Hackmann - backing vocals
• Samantha Pearl Hilgers - vocal screams on "Hellgirl"

Production

• 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....
  
  - producer, engineer, mixing, mastering
• Thomas geiger - additional digital editing