Speak of the Dead

Studio album by Rage

Released

March 24, 2006

Recorded

VPS Studios, Hamm, Germany, October-November 2005

Genre

Power metal, symphonic metal, progressive metal, heavy metal, thrash metal

Length

62:49

Label

Nuclear Blast

Producer

Rage & Charly Czajkowski

Rage chronology

Soundchaser
(2003)

Speak of the Dead
(2006)

Carved in Stone
(2008)

Singles from Speak of the Dead

"Full Moon"
Released: June 1st, 2006

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]

For the proverbial phrase, see De mortuis nil nisi bonum.

Speak of the Dead is the 17th studio album by the German heavy metal band Rage, released in 2006 by Nuclear Blast.^[2] The album contains a mix of different heavy metal music genres, ranging from symphonic and progressive to fast and brutal thrash metal. The band go back to the album Lingua Mortis' themes and atmospheres in the suite that opens the album, called "Suite Lingua Mortis" that consists in 8 parts, using a full symphonic orchestra recorded in Minsk, Belarus.

Track listing

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"Morituri Te Salutant" (Instrumental)		Victor Smolski	0:57
2.	"Prelude of Souls" (Instrumental)		Smolski	2:46
3.	"Innocent"	Peter "Peavy" Wagner	Smolski	5:36
4.	"Depression" (Instrumental)		Smolski	1:12
5.	"No Regrets"	Wagner	Smolski	4:52
6.	"Confusion" (Instrumental)		Smolski	1:45
7.	"Black" (Instrumental)		Smolski	0:51
8.	"Beauty"	Wagner	Smolski	3:53
9.	"No Fear"	Wagner	Smolski	5:31
10.	"Soul Survivor"	Wagner	Wagner	3:41
11.	"Full Moon"	Wagner	Wagner	4:53
12.	"Kill Your Gods"	Wagner	Smolski	5:13
13.	"Turn My World Around"	Wagner	Wagner	3:58
14.	"Be with Me or Be Gone"	Wagner	Wagner	3:47
15.	"Speak of the Dead"	Wagner	Wagner	4:06
Total length:				62:49

Latin america edition
Track listing
No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
16.	"La Luna Reine" (Spanish version of "Full Moon")	Wagner	Wagner	4:52

German edition
Track listing
No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
16.	"Vollmond" (German version of "Full Moon")	Wagner	Wagner	4:54

Russian edition
Track listing
No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
16.	"Полнолуние" (Russian version of "Full Moon")	Wagner	Wagner	4:52

Japanese edition
Track listing
No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
16.	"Michi-Shi Tsuki" (Japanese version of "Full Moon")	Wagner	Wagner	4:52

Personnel

Band members

Peter "Peavy" Wagner - vocals, bass
Victor Smolski - guitars, piano, keyboards, cello, orchestral arrangements
Mike Terrana - drums and percussion

Additional musicians

Inspector Symphonic Orchestra conducted by Andrey Zubrich
Thomas Hackmann - backing vocals

Production

Ingo 'Charly' Czajkowski - producer, engineer
Charlie Bauerfeind - mixing, mastering
Jan Rubach - additional digital editing

References

↑ Rivadavia, Eduardo. "Rage Speak of the Dead review". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 2011-09-24.
↑ "Rage - Speak of the Dead". Encyclopaedia Metallum. Retrieved 2011-09-24.

Rage

Peter "Peavy" Wagner Marcos Rodriguez Vassilios "Lucky" Maniatopoulos Alf Meyerratken Thomas Grüning Jochen Schröder Jörg Michael Rudi Graf Manni Schmidt Chris Efthimiadis Ulli Cohler Spiros Efthimiadis Sven Fischer Christian Wolff Victor Smolski Mike Terrana André Hilgers

Studio albums	Prayers of Steel (as "Avenger", 1985) Reign of Fear (1986) Execution Guaranteed (1987) Perfect Man (1988) Secrets in a Weird World (1989) Reflections of a Shadow (1990) Trapped! (1992) The Missing Link (1993) 10 Years in Rage (1994) Black in Mind (1995) Lingua Mortis (1996) End of All Days (1996) XIII (1998) Ghosts (1999) Welcome to the Other Side (2001) Unity (2002) Soundchaser (2003) Speak of the Dead (2006) Carved in Stone (2008) Strings to a Web (2010) 21 (2012) LMO (2013) (with Lingua Mortis Orchestra) The Devil Strikes Again (2016)

EP	Depraved to Black (as "Avenger", 1985) Extended Power (1991) Beyond the Wall (1992) Refuge (Japan) (1994) Higher than the Sky (Japan) (1996) Live from the Vault (Japan) (1997) In Vain "Rage in Acoustic" (1998) "Gib Dich Nie Auf / Never Give Up" (2009) My Way (2016)

Live albums	Power of Metal (1993) From the Cradle to the Stage (2004) Full Moon in St. Petersburg (2007) Live in Tokyo (2012)

Compilation albums	The Best from the Noise Years (1998) Best of – All G.U.N. Years (2001) All G.U.N. Bonustracks (2002) The Soundchaser Archives (2014)

Box sets	The Lingua Mortis Trilogy (The Classic Collection) (2002) The Refuge Years (2016)

Singles	"Invisible Horizons" "Refuge" "The Crawling Chaos" "Higher than the Sky" "From the Cradle to the Grave" "In Vain" "Full Moon" "No Fear" "Gib Dich Nie Auf" / "Never Give Up" "Into the Light" / "Purified" "Cleansed by Fire"

Other songs	"Prayers of Steel" "Don't Fear the Winter" "Solitary Man" "Enough is Enough" "Beyond the Wall of Sleep" "Alive but Dead" "Down" "War of Worlds" "Sounchaser" "Falling from Grace" "Suite Lingua Mortis" "Twenty One"

Video releasses	The Video Link (1994) Metal Meets Classic Live (2001) From the Cradle to the Stage (2004) Full Moon in St. Petersburg (2007) Live at Wacken '09 (2009) Live at Rock Hard Festival/70000 Tons of Metal (2013)

Related articles	Lingua Mortis Orchestra Refuge Axel Rudi Pell Grave Digger Masterplan Mekong Delta Bassinvaders Nuclear Blast All-Stars: Into the Light A Tribute to Judas Priest: Legends of Metal A Tribute to the Beast A Tribute to the Four Horsemen

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