Track Listing
1. Intro 2. Time waits For no one 3. Make my Day 4. The inner search 5. Invisible horizons 6. She 7. Light into the darkness 8. Talk to grandpa 9. Distant voices 10. Without a trace Year: 1989 Label: Noise - Official Site |
Rage - 'Secrets in a weird world' - By J. Korkiam�ki
The German band Rage made their first globally renowned accomplishment by releasing the 14 song epic Perfect Man, and the songs I�ve heard from that album are very groovy and exclusive speed/power metal which perfectly gets to the listener and really gives them something to think about. So Rage is not a very typical 80�s metal band. Secrets In A Weird World is unfortunately a little disappointment. The drive that made Perfect Man�s and especially Execution Guaranteed�s (which I�ve heard completely) songs great, doesn�t reach a big part of this album. The element, which has always been Rage�s trump card against competitors and copiers, is the lyrical skill of vocalist/bass player Peavy. The lyrics on Secrets are top class too, but the songs themselves don�t quite match. Peavy is being too hard on his voice, which was probably at this time suffering from late puberty or something, his voice sounds terrible at times. I�ve always liked his voice, so manly and so German, but on this album...no. The music is also boring, it has nothing new, or nothing creative, like Perfect Man had. The weakest links are the very weird �The Inner Search�, the semi-humorous, semi-funny �Talk To Grandpa� and the CD bonus track, �The Lost Side Of The World�. Well, Secrets isn�t a complete flop. There is much of true RAGE on this album, and the band gets a chance to live up to their name with this record. There are many quite cool �playing fast and taking it easy� kind of songs, and there are also songs, which even today are among Rage�s best songs ever, like the fantastic �Light Into The Darkness� and the ten minute epic, �Without A Trace� (the horror intro is awesome!), which is a three episode story about different unnatural incidents and questions, that are on man�s mind. Those are Bermuda�s Triangle, Atlantis and you probably guessed it, U.F.O.'s. Despite Peavy�s irritating vocal work, Secrets In A Weird World is...hmmm...OK. It can�t, won�t and never will surpass its predecessors, but you always have to bargain with quality at least once in your career, this is the same with any band. Secrets may be a fine purchase for speed/power metal fans. Metal Obsessive Grade: 77% |