Prayers of Steel
Prayers of Steel | ||||
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Studio album by Avenger | ||||
Released | May 1985 | |||
Recorded | October 1984 | |||
Studio | Studio Wahn, Bochum, Germany | |||
Genre | Speed metal, heavy metal | |||
Length | 42:30 | |||
Label | Wishbone | |||
Producer | Ferdinand Köther | |||
Avenger chronology | ||||
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Source | Rating |
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal | 8/10[1] |
Prayers of Steel is the debut full-length album released by the German heavy metal band Avenger in 1985, before they changed their name to Rage. The only other release that followed under the name Avenger was the EP Depraved to Black (also 1985). German label GUN Records reissued the album on CD in 1995, including the track of the EP.[2]
The opening track "Battlefield" was later re-recorded as a humoristic song called Bottlefield in the Extended Power EP, while the title track "Prayers of Steel" was re-recorded for 10 Years in Rage. Other songs from this album were later re-recorded for Rage's Seasons of the Black album in 2017.
Track listing
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Battlefield" | Peter Wagner, Jochen Schroeder | 2:44 |
2. | "South Cross Union" | Wagner, Schroeder | 3:33 |
3. | "Prayers of Steel" | Wagner, Schroeder, Alf Meyerratken | 6:10 |
4. | "Halloween" | Wagner | 3:49 |
5. | "Faster Than Hell" | Wagner, Schroeder | 3:16 |
Total length: | 53:20 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Adoration" | Wagner, Schroeder | 3:28 |
2. | "Rise of the Creature" | Schroeder, Meyerratken | 5:23 |
3. | "Sword Made of Steel" | Wagner, Schroeder, Meyerratken | 5:02 |
4. | "Bloodlust" | Wagner, Schroeder | 4:47 |
5. | "Assorted by Satan" | Wagner, Schroeder, Meyerratken | 4:04 |
Total length: | 53:20 |
Personnel
- Peavy Wagner – vocals, bass guitar
- Jochen Schroeder – guitars
- Alf Meyerratken – guitars
- Jörg Michael – drums
- Production
- Ferdinand Köther – producer
- Ralph Hubert – engineer
- Ulli Schnarre – tape operator and mixing
References
- ^ Popoff, Martin (1 November 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Collector's Guide Publishing. pp. 31–32. ISBN 978-1-894959-31-5.
- ^ "Avenger – Prayers of Steel". Encyclopaedia Metallum. Retrieved 10 September 2011.
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- Peavy Wagner
- Jean Bormann
- Stefan Weber
- Vassilios "Lucky" Maniatopoulos
- Alf Meyerratken
- Thomas Grüning
- Jochen Schroeder
- Jörg Michael
- Rudy Graf
- Manni Schmidt
- Chris Efthimiadis
- Spiros Efthimiadis
- Sven Fischer
- Mike Terrana
- Victor Smolski
- André Hilgers
- Marcos Rodriguez
- Prayers of Steel (as Avenger)
- Reign of Fear
- Execution Guaranteed
- Perfect Man
- Secrets in a Weird World
- Reflections of a Shadow
- Trapped!
- The Missing Link
- 10 Years in Rage
- Black in Mind
- Lingua Mortis
- End of All Days
- XIII
- Ghosts
- Welcome to the Other Side
- Unity
- Soundchaser
- Speak of the Dead
- Carved in Stone
- Strings to a Web
- 21
- LMO (with Lingua Mortis Orchestra)
- The Devil Strikes Again
- Seasons of the Black
- Wings of Rage
- Resurrection Day
- Depraved to Black (as Avenger)
- Extended Power
- Beyond the Wall
- Refuge
- Full Moon in St. Petersburg
- Live in Tokyo
- Lingua Mortis Orchestra
- 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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