Ghosts (Rage album)

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Ghosts
Rage Ghosts Cover Art.jpg
Studio album by
Rage & the Lingua Mortis Orchestra
Released4 October 1999
Recorded1999
Genre Symphonic metal, heavy metal
Length51:20
Label GUN Records
Producer Christian Wolff, Charly Czajkowski, Peavy Wagner, Victor Smolski
Rage chronology
The Best from the Noise Years
(1998)
Ghosts
(1999)
Welcome to the Other Side
(2001)

Ghosts is the 14th full-length album by the German heavy metal band Rage with the Lingua Mortis Orchestra. [1] It was released in 1999. Despite being composed with the same line-up as their three last studio albums, the musicians appearing inside the album lyrics leaflet are Victor Smolski and Mike Terrana, who joined the band when Fischer and the Efthimiadis brothers left the band during the recording. Smolski and Terrana became official members, joining Peavy Wagner for the tour following the release.

Contents

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Peavy Wagner

No.TitleMusicLength
1."Beginning of the End"Wagner, Christian Wolff4:44
2."Back in Time"Wagner, Wolff4:20
3."Ghosts"Wagner, Wolff, Spiros Efthimiadis5:14
4."Wash My Sins Away"Wagner4:08
5."Fear"Wagner, Wolff, S. Efthimiadis5:08
6."Love and Fear Unite"Wagner3:37
7."Vanished in Haze"Wagner5:01
8."Spiritual Awakening"Wagner3:32
9."Love After Death"Wagner, S. Efthimiadis4:13
10."More Than a Lifetime"Wagner4:28
11."Tomorrow's Yesterday"Wagner, Wolff, Sven Fischer6:55
Total length:51:20
Limited digipak edition
No.TitleMusicLength
12."End of Eternity"Wagner4:21
Japanese edition
No.TitleMusicLength
12."Six Feet Under Ground"Wagner, S. Efthimiadis3:17

Personnel

Band members

Additional musicians

Production

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References

  1. "Rage – Ghosts". Encyclopaedia Metallum . Retrieved 1 February 2013.