Rage's Strings to a Web

What are your thoughts on this album?

I have read one average review on Metal Archives, and i'm hesitating to buy the album.

If you like the last 3 or 4 albums you will like this one too. If you buy it, buy it with the dvd. Its a live DVD with many famous guys on stage with the band at WACKEN, very cool show.

The reviewers over at Metal Archives owns the truth, so if you read one bad review ther you should not touch this album......

Killer album and I much prefer the Rage of today!!! Hooks galore and its super heavy...

This is another release I want badly. I'm a huge Rage fan and don't think they've put out a weak release yet. I'm sure this one won't disappoint either.

I like Carved In Stone a lot, somehow Strings hasn't grabbed me much.

great album and what krokus said get the one with the dvd

Fantastic CD! I'm really digging it. Vexer6 hooked me up with a copy and I've been listening to it all day. Played it through once and then started it all over again.

I like it a lot! It's been a regular listen since I got it a few months ago, I'm not too familiar with earlier material from Rage, but I think it's great.

I waited a long time to buy this one and Carved in Stone, after reading so many bad reviews. But I got each a few months ago and thought both were very good. Kinda bummed I listened to so many dummies.

Eyesore wrote:

I waited a long time to buy this one and Carved in Stone, after reading so many bad reviews. But I got each a few months ago and thought both were very good. Kinda bummed I listened to so many dummies.

I don't get it. I think both are very good.

I'm going for it!

I thought Strings was a strong album, following in the footsteps of Carved in Stone yet slightly heavier and even thrashier in parts. You can't go wrong with any Rage albums released in the last decade or so since Soundchaser.

Rage has a very rich recording history and it would take me some time to get through recommending some of their albums. I am fortunate to own all their releases, they were not easy to track down and was even scammed one time but I persevered until I tracked the originals.

Definitely check Soundchaser as that was the rebirth of sorts for Rage, it is modern Rage sounding heavier and faster than, at least the band's mid90s alter ego.

I don't have all the early albums yet, but I don't think they've released a bad album out of what I do own.

I still find reign of fear and execution garanteed to be their best.

I still need Strings To A Web but I believe they haven't put out a bad release yet. I think their best is Secrets In A Weird World. I love that album!

My favorites of the older albums are Reign of Fear and Reflections of a Shadow, also Trapped.

I'd like to get this and several others but righ now I'm going to have put them on hold (I just bought two that I really shouldn't have, but they were at Wal-Mart and fairly cheap). Until I get a job that is.

DallasBlack wrote:

I'd like to get this and several others but righ now I'm going to have put them on hold (I just bought two that I really shouldn't have, but they were at Wal-Mart and fairly cheap). Until I get a job that is.

i got Unity and Soundchaser last year in a store in prague, both for the price of one. Glad i did so.

I like Strings to a Web a lot. Catchy, heavy tunes and a great sounding record. It has a lot of different kinds of Rage songs. The Empty Hollow tracks in the middle are great.

I picked up black In mind and carved in stone today. Amazing albums. Glad I got them.

strings to a web should arrive in my mail any day now.   

I finally picked up my copy back around Christmas and it was just as I expected. Solid typical current Rage. Not a disappointment at all. The follow up to that one , 21 , is even better I think.

Bad reviews? Wtf??

Gilbert wrote:

I picked up black In mind and carved in stone today. Amazing albums. Glad I got them.

strings to a web should arrive in my mail any day now.   

Black in Mind is amazing. A severaly underrated album that really should be a heavy metal classic by now.

I own these Rage CD's:

Perfect Man
Trapped!
The Missing Link
Black in Mind
End of All Days
Lingua Mortis
XIII
Ghosts
Unity
Soundchaser
Carved in Stone (with DVD)
Strings to a Web (with DVD)
21 (with Live in Tokyo bonus disc)

Gilbert wrote:

I have read one average review on Metal Archives, and i'm hesitating to buy the album.

Please be joking.

If it makes you feel better, they're 2 other poorly-written POSITIVE interviews as well.