''Speak of the Dead'' is the 18th studio album by German
heavy metal band
Rage, released in 2006 by
Nuclear Blast
Nuclear Blast is a record label and mail order record distributor with subsidiaries in Germany, the United States and Brazil. The label was founded in 1987 by Markus Staiger in Germany. Originally releasing hardcore punk records, the label mov ...
.
The album contains a mix of different music genres, adding
symphonic and
progressive influences to their usual fast
power metal
Power metal is a subgenre of heavy metal combining characteristics of traditional heavy metal with speed metal, often within symphonic context. Generally, power metal is characterized by a faster, lighter, and more uplifting sound, in contra ...
/melodic
thrash metal
Thrash metal (or simply thrash) is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music characterized by its overall aggression and often fast tempo.Kahn-Harris, Keith, ''Extreme Metal: Music and Culture on the Edge'', pp. 2–3, 9. Oxford: Berg, 2007, . ...
. The band go back to the album ''
Lingua Mortis
''Lingua Mortis'' is the eleventh full-length album by the German heavy metal band Rage, released in 1996. It's the band's first collaboration with the Prague Symphony Orchestra, which played with the band Rage's songs re-arranged for a classic ...
'' themes and atmospheres in the suite that opens the album, called "Suite Lingua Mortis" that consists in eight parts, using a full symphonic orchestra recorded in
Minsk
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, Belarus. The album marked the last featuring drummer
Mike Terrana
Mike Terrana (born January 21, 1960) is an American hard rock and heavy metal drummer. His first professional work was in 1984 with the MCA band Hanover Fist from Toronto, Canada, after which he recorded and toured with other bands, playing m ...
.
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 ...
– vocals, bass
*
Victor Smolski
Victor Dmitriyevich Smolski (russian: Виктор Дмитриевич Смольский, be, Віктар Дзмітрыевіч Смольскі, born 1 February 1969) is a guitarist who was a member of the German heavy metal band Rage fro ...
– guitars, piano, keyboards, cello, orchestral arrangements
*
Mike Terrana
Mike Terrana (born January 21, 1960) is an American hard rock and heavy metal drummer. His first professional work was in 1984 with the MCA band Hanover Fist from Toronto, Canada, after which he recorded and toured with other bands, playing m ...
– drums and percussion
Additional musicians
*Inspector Symphonic Orchestra conducted by Andrey Zubrich
*Thomas Hackmann – 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
Productio ...
– mixing, mastering
*Jan Rubach – additional digital editing
References
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Rage (German band) albums
2006 albums
Nuclear Blast albums
Symphonic metal albums by German artists
Thrash metal albums by German artists