As the title implies this is the German metal band Rage (of the 80ies fame) teaming up with Prague's Symphonic Orchestra playing some of their old songs, mainly from the album "Black in Mind". Btw these guys are still around, but who cares? I think they even made another album based on the same concept later on. The album isn't at all bad and I think they pull this of nicely taking into consideration the limited budget they must have had.

So this is by all means a decent effort but that's not the reason I decided to write this review. This album was released back in 1996, be sure to note the year carefully because a couple years later the infamous James Hatfield claimed that Metallica was the first metal act to release a record with a collaboration with a symphonic orchestra. This greedy lying bastard and his infantile companions wasn't even first they also released an album clearly inferior to this one. As usual Mettalica's ridiculous effort entitled S/M climbed the charts all over the world and single after single was released with the only purpose to make the elephants within the music industry and the Mettalica members wallets even thicker. The greed and blatant lack of self-criticism this rabble display is without comparison. Their true nature showed when they led the crusade against Napster and free music on the Internet. Stop feeding these animals, don't buy any more Metallica albums. The alcoholic Danish Dwarf and the rest of the retarded fuckers have already stolen enough of our money, it must STOP NOW.

FUCK COPYCATS!
FUCK GREED!
FUCK LIARS!
FUCK METALLICA, IMPERSONATING THE TRUE UNTERMENSCHEN OF THIS WORLD!

HAIL TO RAGE FOR SHOWING CREATIVITY, ARTISTIC TALENT AND THE GUTS TO ACT TRUE PIONEERS AND NOT BRAGGING ABOUT IT!

© 2001 herr nebelwerfer