artists

dirk k, originally from Germany, studied at the Musikhochschule Koeln. He refined his studies at GIT/ Musicians Institute in Hollywood, California and at Berklee School of Music in Boston, MA.

He is an accomplished guitarist, whose carrier begun in the early 1990s. Releasing 14 CD's as a Recording Artist on Sony, Bellaphon, Fuzzy Music and on his own independent label DIP Records.

Cologne based guitar player Hanno Busch is an exciting as well as inspiring musician. Hard to imagine anyone in the european music scene more suited to combine a very own recognizable style and an inimitable yet developing sound with flexibility and inquisitiveness, which lets him merge even seemingly contradicting points on a musical map.

An outcry went through the metal scene, when Peter „Peavy“ Wagner and Victor Smolski of RAGE declared the end of their musical collaboration in the beginning of February 2015. Since André Hilgers also had to leave his place behind the drums, rumors were running high quickly and there was even talk about RAGE would call it quits. Though Peavy made it clear over and over again in interviews that the new line‐up of the band was already positioned, the names of his new band mates remained untold.

- Producer, composer with over 10 million sold sound records worldwide, lecturer and author of one of Germany's most successful guitar instructional DVD "School OfMetal"
- Guitarist of the internationally known bands RAGE and LINGUA MORTIS ORCHESTRA (already had 12 albums in the Media Control Charts; latest album " LMO " at No. 24)
- 3rd place in the National Eurovision Song Contest on Pro7 in 2009, as well as several appearances on "tv total" with Stefan Raab with RAGE