The Missing Link (Rage Album)
Encyclopedia
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.
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...
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:...
in 1993. The album was remastered by Noise
Noise Records
Noise Records was a German record label founded by German music industry personality Karl-Ulrich Walterbach in 1983 as an expansion of his company Modern Music Records. Noise Records specialized in thrash and melodic speed metal. It was sold to the Sanctuary Records Group in 2001 and ceased any...
/Sanctuary
Sanctuary Records
Sanctuary Records Group Limited was a record label based in the United Kingdom and a subsidiary of Universal Music Group. Until June 2007, it was the largest independent record label in the UK and the largest independent music management company in the world...
in 2002 with five bonus tracks.
Track listing
- "Firestorm" (Manni SchmidtManni SchmidtManfred "Manni" Schmidt is a heavy metal guitarist and songwriter, best-known for having been a member of Grave Digger and Rage.-History:...
, Peter WagnerPeavy WagnerPeter "Peavy" Wagner is a German heavy metal musician. He is best known for being singer and bassist of the band Rage.- Biography :...
) - 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 PoliceThe PoliceThe Police were an English rock band formed in London in 1977. For the vast majority of their history, the band consisted of Sting , Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland...
cover) - "I Can't Control Myself" (Reg PresleyReg PresleyReg Presley is an English singer-songwriter. He is best known as the lead singer with prominent 1960s rock and roll band The Troggs, whose best known hit was "Wild Thing", though their only UK number one single was "With A Girl Like You"...
) - 2:48 (The TroggsThe TroggsThe Troggs are an English rock band from the 1960s that had a number of hits in UK and the US. Their most famous songs include, "Wild Thing", "With a Girl Like You", and "Love Is All Around"...
cover) - "Beyond the Pale" (Craig AdamsCraig Adams (musician)Craig Adams is a British musician, bass guitarist and songwriter. Over his career he worked with a variation of rockbands while also being part of a touring crew....
, Mick Brown, Simon HinklerSimon HinklerSimon Thomas Hinkler is a guitarist, keyboard player, songwriter and producer from Sheffield, most notable for being the lead guitarist for the British rock group, The Mission from 1986 to 1990....
, Wayne HusseyWayne HusseyWayne Hussey is a British musician, best known as lead singer of The Mission and guitarist with The Sisters of Mercy....
) - 6:34 (The MissionThe Mission (band)The Mission are a gothic rock band formed in 1986 from the splinters of the freshly dissolved rock band The Sisters of Mercy.The band was started by frontman Wayne Hussey and bassist Craig Adams , soon adding...
cover) - "ParanoidParanoid (song)"Paranoid" is a song by the British heavy metal band Black Sabbath, featured on their second album Paranoid . It is the first single from the album, while the B-side is the song "The Wizard". It reached number 4 on the UK Singles Chart and number 61 on the Billboard Hot 100...
" (demo version) (Geezer ButlerGeezer ButlerGeezer Butler is an English musician and songwriter. Butler is best known as the bassist and lyricist of heavy metal band Black Sabbath. He was also involved in Heaven & Hell from 2006 to 2010.-Career:Butler formed his first band, Rare Breed, with old friend John "Ozzy" Osbourne in the autumn of...
, Tony IommiTony IommiAnthony Frank "Tony" Iommi is an English guitarist and songwriter best known as the founding member of pioneering heavy metal band Black Sabbath, and its sole continual member through multiple personnel changes.Iommi is widely recognised as one of the most important and influential guitarists in...
, Ozzy OsbourneOzzy OsbourneJohn Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne is an English vocalist, whose musical career has spanned over 40 years. Osbourne rose to prominence as lead singer of the pioneering English heavy metal band Black Sabbath, whose radically different, intentionally dark, harder sound helped spawn the heavy metal...
, Bill Ward) - 2:40 (Black SabbathBlack SabbathBlack Sabbath are an English heavy metal band, formed in Aston, Birmingham in 1969 by Ozzy Osbourne , Tony Iommi , Geezer Butler , and Bill Ward . The band has since experienced multiple line-up changes, with Tony Iommi the only constant presence in the band through the years. A total of 22...
cover)
Band members
- Peter "Peavy" WagnerPeavy WagnerPeter "Peavy" Wagner is a German heavy metal musician. He is best known for being singer and bassist of the band Rage.- Biography :...
- vocals, bass, arrangements - Manni SchmidtManni SchmidtManfred "Manni" Schmidt is a heavy metal guitarist and songwriter, best-known for having been a member of Grave Digger and Rage.-History:...
- guitars - Chris Ephthimiadis - drums
Production
- Sven Conquest - producer, engineer, mixing
- Bernd Steinwedel - mastering
- Karl-Ulrich Walterbach - executive producer