RAGE Announces Split

http://www.metalunderground.com/news/details.cfm?newsid=110356

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Legendary German power thrash act Rage announced the end of the current era of Rage. After 15 years, the era of founding member Peavy Wagner and guitar/composer virtuoso Victor Smolski which began with "Welcome of the Other Side" in 2001, has come to an end.

In a statement on the band's Facebook Page: "Hi Rageheads, After thinking it over carefully, Peavy and Victor decided to stop working together in the future. This is due to musical and personal changes. We have developed in different directions in the last years that much, that we cannot identify with the current band situation anymore. In this situation we will also part from drummer André Hilgers.

"The last 15 years were blessed with many Highlights and great releases but this era is over now. Every extension would be untrue to ourselves and to our fans.

"We wish each other all the best! Thanx to all the fans for your trust and support!

Wow ! That's totally unexpected and disappointing. They have been one of my favorite bands for such a long time.

Hopefully they will keep on with that reunion with guitarist Manni Schmidt and drummer Chris Efthimiadis. That trio made some great albums together.

Why split at all? Why not just change the lineup like they've done in the past?

Yeah, "split" seems like a strange wording to use. It's Peavy's band, Rage IS Peavy, or is Smolski going to continue as VS-Rage now?

"Smolski and Hilgers leave Rage" makes more sense. They've had a thousand lineup changes in the past anyway.

Temple of Blood wrote:

Why split at all?  Why not just change the lineup like they've done in the past?

Lari wrote:

Yeah, "split" seems like a strange wording to use. It's Peavy's band, Rage IS Peavy, or is Smolski going to continue as VS-Rage now?

"Smolski and Hilgers leave Rage" makes more sense. They've had a thousand lineup changes in the past anyway.

Good points. Hopefully a more clear announcement on their future will be coming up.

It looks to me as though "split" was just used in the headline of the article and not in the band's comment. So it could end up being a line-up change.

Yeah, Peavy will carry on.

Victor is continuing on with LMO (Lingua Mortis Orchestra) which is seriously bitchen ass!! Peavy was part of that as well but will no longer do that. As far as Rage, I believe it is continuing just different members.

So a non-split that results in two bands? Works for me.

Peavy wrote this on his facebook:

BTW I need to start coming back here more often. I miss you guys

Hi Rageheads, due to s rumors in the past few days, referring to the future of RAGE and LMO, I would like to give some more clarity.

My split from Victor and André does NOT implicate the end of RAGE! On the contrary, set sails again with a new Line-Up soon we. More news to follow.

REFUGE is a blessing for me and my two friends and bandmates, and wants to continue to exist. We are looking forward to the festival summer of 2015 (and beyond) Both bands, RAGE and refuge are going to be present alongside and want even complement each other. With refuge we are serving all the oldschool metalheads out there, whilst RAGE is covering the whole musical spectrum that I have built up in the past 30 years.
LINGUA MORTIS (LMO) I created in the early 90's and we celebrated our first release in 1996. Equals to RAGE, LMO is important part of me and I want to put in the same amount of passion and creative energy as I have done in the past.

I promise that I will go ahead with RAGE in a high musical quality. With refuge we will travel back to the early days and with LINGUA MORTIS ORCHESTRA I want to continue the metal meets classic part of me.

I can't wait for what will happen in the near future, I feel freed and I am full of creative energy. In that respect I want to say THANK YOU for your trust and support.

See you soon.

Yours Peavy

So...he's carrying on with LMO, Refuge and Rage? Word.

Nice ! Talk about a full plate.

Yea seems like it for now. It would be nice if the Refuge project put out an album.

That's cool. How does he do it?

I'm assuming he's not married and doesn't have kids lol

Yeah, no kidding! It's a safe bet that most folks in these bands that are so busy don't have kids. Or all their kids have already moved out of the house.

I think I remember the last Rage album had his baby doing some "goo goo ga ga" for a song. So yeah, he does have a toddler.

As long as rage are still on, I am a happy metalhead.

Lari wrote:

I think I remember the last Rage album had his baby doing some "goo goo ga ga" for a song. So yeah, he does have a toddler.

If you're thinking of Hellgirl off Strings To A Web, that was Andre Hilger's daughter.

007 wrote:

Lari wrote:

I think I remember the last Rage album had his baby doing some "goo goo ga ga" for a song. So yeah, he does have a toddler.

If you're thinking of Hellgirl off Strings To A Web, that was Andre Hilger's daughter.

That's exactly what I was thinking of. Thanks for the info!