The Missing Link (Rage album)

The Missing Link
Studio album by Rage
Released	1 August 1993
Recorded	May–June 1993
Studio	Rocktech Studio, Berlin, Germany
Genre	Speed metal, power metal, thrash metal
Length	45:46
Label	Noise
Producer	Sven Conquest
Rage chronology
Beyond the Wall (1992) The Missing Link (1993) Refuge (1994)
Singles from The Missing Link
"Refuge" Released: March 24, 1994

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal	8/10[2]

The Missing Link is the seventh full-length album released by the heavy metal band Rage in 1993. The album was remastered by Noise/Sanctuary in 2002 with five bonus tracks, three of them are from the EP Refuge.^[3]

Track listing[]

1. "Firestorm" (Manni Schmidt, Peter Wagner) – 4:56
2. "Nevermore" (Wagner) – 4:28
3. "Refuge" (Wagner) – 3:38
4. "The Pit and the Pendulum" (Chris Ephthimiadis, Wagner) – 4:18
5. "From the Underworld" (Schmidt, Wagner) – 3:10
6. "Certain Days" (Wagner) – 5:46
7. "Who Dares?" (Ephthimiadis, Wagner) – 4:29
8. "Wake Me When I'm Dead" (Wagner) – 5:22
9. "Lost in the Ice" (Wagner) – 9:50
10. "Her Diary's Black Pages" (Wagner) – 3:34
11. "The Missing Link" (Ephthimiadis, Schmidt, Wagner) – 4:24
12. "Raw Caress" (Wagner) – 5:26

Remastered CD edition bonus tracks

13. "Another Kind of Madness" (Wagner) – 5:11
14. "Truth Hits Everybody" (Sting) – 2:26 (The Police cover)
15. "I Can't Control Myself" (Reg Presley) – 2:48 (The Troggs cover)
16. "Beyond the Pale" (Craig Adams, Mick Brown, Simon Hinkler, Wayne Hussey) – 6:34 (The Mission cover)
17. "Paranoid" (demo version) (Geezer Butler, Tony Iommi, Ozzy Osbourne, Bill Ward) – 2:40 (Black Sabbath cover)

Personnel[]

Band members

• Peter "Peavy" Wagner – vocals, bass, arrangements
• Manni Schmidt – guitars
• Chris Ephthimiadis – drums

Production

• Sven Conquest – producer, engineer, mixing
• Bernd Steinwedel – mastering
• Karl-Ulrich Walterbach – executive producer

References[]