{"id":31626,"date":"2015-06-18T00:00:17","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T00:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=31626"},"modified":"2015-06-18T17:30:56","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T17:30:56","slug":"news-rage-announce-2015-line-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/news-rage-announce-2015-line-up\/","title":{"rendered":"RAGE Announce New Line-Up (June 18th, 2015) | News @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"title2\"><strong>RAGE Announce New Line-Up<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: 8pt\"><strong>June 18th, 2015<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-content\/themes\/metalforces\/images\/spacer.gif\" width=\"10\" border=\"0\"><br \/>\nBochum, Germany-based power metal group Rage revealed a fresh line-up on June 18th, 2015, which is as follows;<\/p>\n<p>Peter \u2018Peavy\u2019 Wagner (vocals and bass)<br \/>\nMarcos Rodriguez (guitar and backing vocals)<br \/>\nVassilios &#8216;Lucky\u2019 Maniatopoulos (drums and backing vocals)<\/p>\n<p>Vocalist \/ bassist \u2018Peavy\u2019 Wagner issued the following statement: \u201cThere were quite a couple of proposals from established musicians, but this wasn\u2019t what I was looking for. I wanted to have a real band again with all members pulling in the same direction. These two guys have literally inhaled Rage their whole lives and can vividly feel it \u2014 I\u2019m very much looking forward to herald a new era of Rage together with them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marcos Rodriguez was born in Venezuela, and resides in Antwerpen, Belgium at the time of writing. The 36-year-old guitarist met Wagner on Rage\u2019s 30th anniversary tour, for which his ensemble Soundchaser provided support on parts of the track.<\/p>\n<p>Residing in Burscheid, Vassilios \u2018Lucky\u2019 Maniatopoulos is the vocalist of Tri State Corner. A former drum student and drum technician of erstwhile Rage and current Tri State Corner sticksman Christos Efthimiadis, Maniatopoulos is a longtime friend of Wagner\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Rage\u2019s new line-up will make its live debut at  Metal Hammer Paradise, Ferienpark Weissenh\u00e4user Strand, Germany on November 14th.<\/p>\n<p>Compilation album <em>The Soundchaser Archives<\/em> was released in May 2014.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"625\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v8olJw_sZh4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAGE Announce New Line-Up June 18th, 2015 Bochum, Germany-based power metal group Rage revealed a fresh line-up on June 18th, 2015, which is as follows; Peter \u2018Peavy\u2019 Wagner (vocals and bass) Marcos Rodriguez (guitar and backing vocals) Vassilios &#8216;Lucky\u2019 Maniatopoulos (drums and backing vocals) Vocalist \/ bassist \u2018Peavy\u2019 Wagner issued the following statement: \u201cThere were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1882],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rage-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31626"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31630,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31626\/revisions\/31630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}