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in August 2007 (featuring a symphonic orchestra from

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, which under the name

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toured with Rage in Europe) plus the videos for the songs "Lord of the Flies" and "Open My Grave".

Track listing

Personnel

Band members

Peter "Peavy" Wagner Peter "Peavy" Wagner (born 22 December 1964) is a German heavy metal musician best known as the lead singer, bassist and main songwriter of Rage. Biography Wagner was born in Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia, the second of four children. Hi ...

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s, keyboards, sitar, orchestral arrangements, mixing, mastering *André Hilgers -

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Additional musicians

*Thomas Hackmann,

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- backing vocals

Production

*Ingo 'Charly' Czajkowski - producer, engineer *

Charlie Bauerfeind Karl Rudolf "Charlie" Bauerfeind (born 30 May 1963) 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. Works Production ...

- mixing, mastering *Thomas Geiger - additional digital editing

References

{{Authority control 2008 albums Rage (German band) albums Nuclear Blast albums