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Limited box set featuring the ‘Carved In Stone’ cd album and the ‘Gib Dich Nie Auf’ EP Rage are that stick in the mud when it comes to heavy metal from Germany, they have been around the block a number of times and it is highly unlikely that your path will not have crossed with Rage sometime in the past. As most of you will be familiar, Rage play a modern and very heavy form of power metal with vocals that, contrary to the power metal genre, isn't a Rob Halford sound-a-like but a grittier voice from Peavy Wagner, still singing all the way of course. ‘Carved In Stone’ is yet another album in the long line of albums Rage have put out over the last two decades, maybe the band don't even know which album number this is; but the main thing is that ‘Carved In Stone’ has all the usual Rage traits and sounds that we have come to expect over the years. Thrashy guitar riffs, somewhat of an imposing masculine feel with Peavy's vocals and the odd heavy as hell stomper thrown in there every once in a while with plenty of headbanging and foot-tapping songs in-between. The album will not disappoint fans of the band as this is the same formula that has been used time and time again and is therefore a very comfortable listen. ‘Carved In Stone’ is not groundbreaking material, it is not refreshingly original or breathtaking, but is it just typical Rage. Every element that makes Rage Rage is encompassed in this album and so you have a very heavy yet melodic album to look forward to. Track listing: Carved In Stone – 2008 1. Carved In Stone 2. Drop Dead! 3. Gentle Murders 4. Open My Grave 5. Without You 6. Long Hard Road 7. One Step Ahead 8. Lost In The Void 9. Mouth Of Greed 10. Lord Of The Flies Gib Dich Nie Auf – 2009 1. Gib Dich Nie Auf 2. Vollmond 3. Never Give Up 4. Terrified 5. Lord Of The Flies 6. Home