Artist: AVENGER [RAGE]
Album: PRAYERS OF STEEL RE-ISSUE (2CD)

Release date: 1985/ 2017
EAN/UPS: 4260255244246
Media type: CD

By calling the name AVENGER aficionados of teutonic 80s Speed Metal go wild for more than three decades now. Hailing from Herne, with „Prayers Of Steel“ the quartet released a genre classic through Wishbone Records in spring 1985, that can’t be compared to anything. Sold out for many years, now there will be a double LP reissue through Pure Steel, packed with the second demo and some rehearsal stuff as bonus and limited to 566 copies. Even after 31 years, anthems such as „Battlefield“, „Prayers Of Steel“, „Faster Than Hell“ and „Assorted By Satan“ didn‘t lose anything of their initial power. The fast and raw drumming by Jörg Michael as well as the striking high pitched vocals of a young and wild Peavy Wagner are outstanding attributes, which are missing on releases of nowadays newcomer bands. Unfortunately, the band name should not last long since the young group wanted to avoid legal disputes with a British band of the same name. A renaming to Rage one year later seemed to be the only way out. What followed was German Metal history, which began with this masterpiece.

CD 1:

1     - Battlefield     2:47     
2     - South cross union     3:38     
3     - Prayers of steel     6:12     
4     - Halloween     3:51     
5     - Faster than hell     3:19     
6     - Adoration     3:32     
7     - Rise of the creature     5:26     
8     - Sword made of steel     5:06     
9     - Blood lust     4:49     
10     - Assorted by Satan     4:06     
11     - Down to the bone     5:03     
12     - Depraved to black     4:38     
13     - Prayers of steel (Live)     4:58     
14     - Faster than hell (Live)     2:47


CD 2:

1     - Faster than hell (Demo Feb. 1984)     3:03     
2     - Adoration (Demo Feb. 1984)     3:56     
3     - Destination day (Demo Feb. 1984)     4:44     
4     - Assorted by Satan (Demo Feb. 1984)     4:38     
5     - Battlefield (Demo July 1984)     2:48     
6     - South cross union (Demo July 1984)     3:27     
7     - Adoration (Demo July 1984)     3:52     
8     - Blood lust (Demo July 1984)     4:28     
9     - Halloween (Outake Studio Rehearsal)     3:51     
10     - Rise of the creature (Outake Studio Rehearsal)     5:26     
11     - Prayers of steel (Outake Studio Rehearsal)     4:41     
12     - Sword made of steel (Outake Studio Rehearsal)     4:13     
13     - Seven gates of hell     3:20     
14     - Faster than hell (Outake Studio Rehearsal)     3:07     
15     - Victim of rock     3:03     
16     - Assorted by Satan (Outake Studio Rehearsal)     3:29


LINE-UP AVENGER:

Peter "Peavy" Wagner (Rage, Refuge, Lingua Mortis Orchestra, ex-Bassinvaders, ex-Mekong Delta, ex-X-Mas Project, ex-Der Riß) – bass, vocals

Jörg Michael (Heavatar, Headhunter, ex-House of Spirits, ex-Surgeon, Devil's Train, ex-Axel Rudi Pell, ex-Grave Digger, ex-Mekong Delta, ex-Rage, ex-Running Wild, ex-Saxon, ex-Soulslide, ex-Stratovarius, ex-Unleashed Power, ex-Glenmore, ex-X-Mas Project, ex-Living Death, ex-Der Riß, ex-Laos (Gudrun Laos)) – drums

Jochen Schröder (ex-Mekong Delta, ex-Rage) – guitars

Alf Meyerratken – guitars