Carved in Stone (Rage album)

Carved in Stone
Studio album by Rage
Released	22 February 2008
Recorded	VPS Studios, Hamm, Germany, August–October 2007
Genre	Power metal, heavy metal
Length	47:49
Label	Nuclear Blast
Producer	Rage, Charly Czajkowski
Rage chronology
Full Moon in St. Petersburg (2007) Carved in Stone (2008) Strings to a Web (2010)

Carved in Stone is the 18th studio album by the German heavy metal band Rage. The album includes a bonus DVD with their full show at Wacken Open Air in August 2007 (featuring a symphonic orchestra from Minsk, Belarus, which under the name Lingua Mortis Orchestra toured with Rage in Europe) plus the videos for the songs "Lord of the Flies" and "Open My Grave".

Track listing

All lyrics by Peter Wagner, music by Victor Smolski, except as indicated below

1. "Carved in Stone" - 5:21
2. "Drop Dead!" - 4:13
3. "Gentle Murders" - 4:12
4. "Open My Grave" - 4:41
5. "Without You" (Wagner, Smolski) - 5:45
6. "Long Hard Road" (Wagner, Smolski) - 4:37
7. "One Step Ahead" - 5:05
8. "Lost in the Void" (Wagner, Smolski) - 4:14
9. "Mouth of Greed" (Wagner) - 3:56
10. "Lord of the Flies" (Wagner, Smolski) - 5:45

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Lords of Metal	(85/100)

Personnel

Band members

• Peter "Peavy" Wagner - vocals, bass
• Victor Smolski - guitars, keyboards, sitar, orchestral arrangements, mixing, mastering
• André Hilgers - drums

Additional musicians

• Thomas Hackmann, Jen Majura - backing vocals

Production

• Ingo 'Charly' Czajkowski - producer, engineer
• Charlie Bauerfeind - mixing, mastering
• Thomas Geiger - additional digital editing