Prayers of Steel

"Prayers of Steel" is also the name of a 1918 poem by Carl Sandburg.

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]

Prayers of Steel
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
Prayers of Steel (1985) Depraved to Black (1985)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal	8/10[1]

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

Side one

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
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

Side two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
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

1. 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.
2. "Avenger – Prayers of Steel". Encyclopaedia Metallum. Retrieved 10 September 2011.