No rest for the wicked! Only two years after the blasting last output "Speak Of The Dead" and one year after the impressive CD/DVD-set "Live In St. Petersburg", several tours and festivals, RAGE are back with their newest effort: "Carved In Stone". While "Speak Of The Dead" continued the symphonic concept of "Lingua Mortis" from 1996, "Carved In Stone" is a "regular" RAGE album - but still a special one: It's easily the heaviest one since "Black in Mind" from 1995. 10 songs, 10 smashers, 10 grenades - full throttle ahead! Thrashy, powerful Metal at it's best! Again, singer/bass player Peavy Wagner and guitar wizard Victor Smolski are showing what an impressive songwriting team they became over the past years of their collaboration.
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