''The Lingua Mortis Trilogy (The Classic Collection)'' is a box set by the German heavy metal band Rage. It was released in October 2002, by

GUN Records GUN Records (''Great Unlimited Noises'') was a record label located in Bochum, Germany, founded in 1992 by Bogdan Kopec ( DRAKKAR Promotion Musikverlag GmbH) and Wolfgang Funk. Different artists on the label have had hit singles as well as albu ...

. It contains digipack versions of three "classical" albums by Rage with the

Lingua Mortis Orchestra Rage is a German heavy metal band formed in 1984 by Peter "Peavy" Wagner. They were part of the German heavy/speed/power metal scene which emerged in the early to mid-1980s, and have been referred to as one of the country's so-called "big fo ...

: ''Lingua Mortis'', ''XIII'' and ''Ghosts''.

Box set items

The following items are included in the set: *''

XIII XIII may refer to: * 13 (number) or XIII in Roman numerals * 13th century in Roman numerals * XIII (comics), ''XIII'' (comics), a Belgian comic book series by Jean Van Hamme and William Vance ** XIII (2003 video game), ''XIII'' (2003 video game), a ...

'' (1998) - 1:02:45 *'' Ghosts'' (1999) - 55:28 *''

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 ...

'' (1996) - 43:05

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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, bass *Spiros Efthimiadis -

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s *Sven Fischer -

s *Chris Efthimiadis - drums

Additional musicians

* Christian Wolff - piano * Lingua Mortis Orchestra

Production

* Ulli Pössell - producer, engineer, mixing * Christian Wolf - producer * Charly Czajkowski - producer {{DEFAULTSORT:Lingua Mortis Trilogy Rage (German band) albums 2002 compilation albums