Reign of Fear
Reign of Fear builds on speed-metal momentum and puts cutting guitars alongside Peavy Wagner’s rough vocal attack.
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Track List
- Scared to Death (Remastered 2015)
- Deceiver (Remastered 2015)
- Reign of Fear (Remastered 2015)
- Hand of Glory (Remastered 2015)
- Raw Energy (Remastered 2015)
- Echoes of Evil (Remastered 2015)
- Chaste Flesh (Remastered 2015)
- Suicide (Remastered 2015)
- Machinery (Remastered 2015)
- The Scaffold (Remastered 2015)
- Scared to Death
- Deceiver
- Reign of Fear
- Hand of Glory
- Raw Energy
- Echoes of Evil
- Chaste Flesh
- Suicide
- Machinery
- The Scaffold
- Echoes of Evil (Demo 1985)
- Scared to Death (Demo 1985)
- Raw Energy (Demo 1985)
- Suicide (Demo 1985)
- Tough Like Leather (Demo 1985)
- Hand of Glory (Demo 1985)
- Reign of Fear (Demo 1985)
- Chaste Flesh (Demo 1985)
- Stay Wild (Demo 1985)
- Mirror (Demo 1985)
- The Scaffold (Demo 1985)
- Down to the Bone (Demo 1985)
- Depraved to Black (Demo 1985)
Liner Notes
Reign of Fear is the debut of the band that had just renamed itself from Avenger to RAGE, driving speed-metal momentum forward with cutting guitars and Peavy Wagner’s raw vocals. Short, aggressive songs such as “Scared to Death” and “Deceiver” follow one after another, yet the riffs carry small variations rather than simply charging in a straight line.
The title track “Reign of Fear,” along with “Echoes of Evil” and “Raw Energy,” combines an uneasy atmosphere with sheer speed, and the rough energy typical of mid-1980s German speed metal runs through the whole record. Its appeal lies in a rawness that feels captured before any polish set in. The playing is sometimes crude, but the freshness of the early drive stands out all the more, and the structural touches in “Hand of Glory” and “The Scaffold” already hint at the craft RAGE would later refine — a historic starting point after the name change.