Rage - Afterlifelines (2CD)

Metal is Forever Number of posts : 6330 Age : 44

To celebrate 40 years of Rage, the new Rage studio album will be a double disc with one half orchestrated and the other half more traditional metal, and it's called Afterlifelines:

There's going to be a special 3-disc version too, with the third disc a live Summerbreeze 2023 recording.

Metal is my Life Number of posts : 39509 Age : 55

I figured the orchestrated stuff would be old songs but everything looks like new material. Cool beans!

Metal is Forever Number of posts : 6330 Age : 44

I guess it's like Speak of the Dead, but 85 minutes.

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Big events are casting their (apparently equally big) shadows ahead: German metal band Rage have announced the release of their new studio album Afterlifelines for March 2024. It is a double album with a total of 21 songs, including an intro, interlude and outro. The special thing about it is that the two discs have different musical approaches: "The first CD is entitled Afterlife and consists of songs that we recorded as a trio, while the songs on the second CD Lifeline' also feature classical orchestral arrangements," explains singer and bassist Peavy Wagner.

Wagner and his two bandmates Jean Bormann (guitar) and Vassilios "Lucky" Maniatopoulos (drums) have recorded more than 94 minutes of new Rage music, including what Wagner calls a "20-minute grand finale."

Metal is Forever Number of posts : 6330 Age : 44

In the graphics posted above I counted only approximately 85 minutes. They say "more than 94 minutes". And there is a "20-minute grand finale". So maybe the song Lifelines is 19:54 and there's a mistake in the graphics, or something else doesn't add up. It could be a suite with several tracks and the extra 10 minutes is something only the Japanese get, or whatever.

Or just bad math on their part lol!

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Cooool. Bring it on!

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A new Rage album is a blind buy headbanger

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New RAGE video, "Under a Black Crown," hit YouTube yesterday. Sounds pretty cool...

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The album is out TODAY!

And here is a new video:

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Ordered my copy last night. Now we play the Waiting Game...

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My copy came yesterday. Woohoo! Of course, with it being a 2CD set, there's a lot to digest here, but so far, me likee what I've heard.

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Fat Freddy wrote:: My copy came yesterday. Woohoo! Of course, with it being a 2CD set, there's a lot to digest here, but so far, me likee what I've heard.

Waiting for my copy in the mail.

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I usually avoid listening to the entire album before my physical copy is here, but i still did check a couple of samples.

This one is awesome:

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