The Missing Link (Rage album)

The Missing Link
Studio album by Rage
Released	1 August 1993
Recorded	May–June 1993
Studio	Rocktech Studio, Berlin
Genre	Power metal, heavy metal, speed 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: 24 March 1994

Professional ratings

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

The Missing Link is the eighth 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

All tracks are written by Peter Wagner, except where indicated

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Firestorm"	Manni Schmidt, Peter Wagner	4:56
2.	"Nevermore"		4:28
3.	"Refuge"		3:38
4.	"The Pit and the Pendulum"	Chris Ephthimiadis, Wagner	4:18
5.	"From the Underworld"	Schmidt, Wagner	3:10
6.	"Certain Days"		5:46
7.	"Who Dares?"	Ephthimiadis, Wagner	4:29
8.	"Wake Me When I'm Dead"		5:22
9.	"Lost in the Ice"		9:50
10.	"Her Diary's Black Pages"		3:34
11.	"The Missing Link"	Ephthimiadis, Schmidt, Wagner	4:24
12.	"Raw Caress"		5:26

Remastered CD edition bonus tracks

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
13.	"Another Kind of Madness"		5:11
14.	"Truth Hits Everybody" (The Police cover)	Sting	2:26
15.	"I Can't Control Myself" (The Troggs cover)	Reg Presley	2:48
16.	"Beyond the Pale" (The Mission cover)	Craig Adams, Mick Brown, Simon Hinkler, Wayne Hussey	6:34
17.	"Paranoid" (Black Sabbath cover; Demo Version)	Geezer Butler, Tony Iommi, Ozzy Osbourne, Bill Ward	2:40

Personnel

Band members

• 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

1. Rivadavia, Eduardo. "Rage The Missing Link review". AllMusic . Rovi Corporation . Retrieved 15 September 2011.
2. Popoff, Martin (1 August 2007). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 359. ISBN   978-1-894959-62-9.
3. "Rage - The Missing Link". Encyclopaedia Metallum . Retrieved 15 September 2011.