Artist: RAGE
Album: FROM THE CRADLE TO THE STAGE LTD. (2DVD+2CD)

Release date: 2004
Media type: CD

- Produced by Charlie Bauerfeind (Blind Guardian, Hammerfall) !
- The first real Live CD and the first real DVD - The fans waited a long time for this stuff - now they get it!

Bottoms up, pop the champagne corks, it’s party time! Twenty years ago almost precisely to the day, a young German musician and his band, Avenger, ensconced themselves in the studio to record their debut album Prayers Of Steel. We’re talking 1984, the name of the hopeful young vocalist was Peavy Wagner, and Prayers Of Steel is significant from today’s point of view because everything that comes under the heading of “20 Years of Rage” was spawned by this recording. Avenger soon became Rage, and the initial musical steps of the band developed into an unparalleled career. Peavy and his two accomplices, Victor Smolski (guitar) and Mike Terrana (drums), are about to celebrate their anniversary with their first live album, From The Cradle To The Stage, documenting in no uncertain terms: Rage have never been better!
The double album, simultaneously released on double DVD and in a limited digi-pack edition including CD and double DVD, consists of recordings cut at the Zeche in Bochum on January 25, 2004 – the night that Rage performed an over three-hour show, playing the most important tracks from every phase of the band’s career, some of them original arrangements, others updated versions. The band, featuring an international line-up unique to the metal scene, demonstrated all over again just what a technically accomplished act they are. Victor Smolski is without doubt one of the best guitarists worldwide. His feel for rhythm is unique; the tone and expression of his solos are simply awesome. The same can be said of Mike Terrana: the former Yngwie Malmsteen drummer is the driving force behind every Rage number, in every sense of the word. His timing is precise, his feel for catchy grooves unfailing. And last but not least there’s Peavy himself: for two decades, he has given the band a face and a voice and is as brilliant a bassist as he is a songwriter. Peavy is the thread that runs through Rage’s history. Some call him a figurehead, other simply call him ‘Mr. Rage’.

TRACK LISTING DVD:

DVD1 - RAGE Live, Bochum, Zeche, Germany 25.1.2004
1. Orgy of destruction (M:Smolski/Terrana)
2. War of worlds (M:Smolski/L:Wagner)
3. Great old ones (M&L:Wagner)
4. Paint the devil on the wall (M:Smolski/L:Wagner)
5. Sent by the devil (M&L:Wagner)
6. Firestorm (M:Wagner,Schmidt/L:Wagner)
7. Down (M:Smolski/L:Wagner)
8. Prayers of steel (M&L:Wagner)
9. Suicide (M:Wagner,Schroeder/L:Wagner)
10. Days of december (M&L:Wagner)
11. Unity (M:Smolski)
12. Anarchy (Drum solo) (M:Terrana)
13. Invisible horizons (M&L:Wagner)
14. Set this world on fire (M:Wagner,Smolski/L:Wagner)
15. Flesh and blood (M:Smolski/L:Wagner)
16. Rocket science (Guitar solo) (M:Smolski)
17. Soundchaser (M:Smolski/L:Wagner)
18. Straight to hell (M:Smolski/L:Wagner)
19. Back in time (M:Wagner,Wolff/L:Wagner)
20. Refuge (M&L:Wagner)
21. From the cradle to the grave (M:Wagner,Efthimiadis/L:Wagner)
22. Black in mind (M:Wagner,Efthimiadis/L:Wagner)
23. Solitary man (M:Wagner,Schmidt/L:Wagner)
24. Don’t fear the winter (M&L:Wagner)
25. All I want (M:Smolski/L:Wagner)
26. Higher than the sky (M&L:Wagner)

DVD2:
1. History Film 20 years of Rage (contains interviews with the band and lots of rare and unreleased home video footage)
2. Making off the Rage show (contains behind the scenes shot and crew interviews)
3. Studio doku : Falling from grace (Wake the nightmares/Death is on it’s way) (M&L:Wagner)
4. Studio doku : Dies Irae (M:Smolski/L:Wagner,Smolski)
5. Video Clip : Down by law (M:Wagner,Schroeder/L:Wagner) directed by Procam, 1987 Noise
6. Video Clip : Don’t fear the winter (M&L:Wagner) directed by Hagen Muller, 1988 Noise
7. Video Clip : Invisible horizons (M&L:Wagner) directed by Klaus Wendler, 1989 Noise
8. Video Clip : True face in everyone (M:Wagner,Schmidt/L:Wagner) directed by Joachim Jung, 1990 Noise
9. Video Clip : Waiting for the moon (M:Wagner,Schmidt/L:Wagner) directed by Joachim Jung, 1990 Noise
10. Video Clip : Refuge (M&L: Wagner) directed by Peter Ernst , 1993 Noise
11. Video Clip : Alive but dead (M:Wagner,Efthimiadis/L:Wagner) directed by Cut&Run, 1995 GUN
12. Video Clip : Deep in the blackest hole (M:Wagner,Efthimiadis/L:Wagner) directed by Cut&Run, 1996 GUN
13. Video Clip : Lingua mortis medley: Don?t fear the winter(M:Wagner),Black in mind(M:Wagner,Efthimiadis/L:Wagner),Firestorm(M:Wagner),Sent by the devil(M&L:Wagner),Lost in the ice(M:Wagner) 1997 GUN
14. Video Clip : From the cradle to the grave (M:Wagner,Efthimiadis/L:Wagner) directed by Roxanne 1998 GUN
15. Video Clip : Down (M:Smolski/L:Wagner) directed by Vladimir Yankowski 2002 SPV
16. Discography

- Concert DVD: 16:9 - Bonus DVD: 16:9 and 4:3
- Concert DVD: Dolby Digital 2.0 and Dolby Digital 5.1 - Bonus DVD: Dolby Digital 2.0
- Subtitle: Englisch
- Concert DVD: approx. 128 min. - Bonus DVD: approx. 180 min.

Line-Up:

Peavy Wagner - bass,vocals
Victor Smolski - guitars
Mike Terrana - drums