Rheingold | |
Type: | studio |
Artist: | Grave Digger |
Cover: | GraveDigger-Rheingold.jpg |
Released: | 3 June 2003 |
Recorded: | October 2002 – January 2003 at Principal Studios, Germany |
Genre: | Heavy metal, power metal |
Length: | 44:18 |
Label: | Nuclear Blast |
Producer: | Chris Boltendahl & "Resetti Brothers" |
Prev Title: | Tunes of Wacken – Live |
Prev Year: | 2001 |
Next Title: | The Last Supper |
Next Year: | 2005 |
Rheingold is the 11th studio album by German heavy metal band Grave Digger. It is a concept album based on Richard Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung. The album was released in 2003. Many lines of the lyrics are quoted or paraphrased from (an English translation of) Wagner. The music also has occasional references to Wagner, the most obvious one perhaps being the intro to the song "Dragon", which is the "Siegfried's Horn Call" leitmotif.
All songs are composed and arranged by Boltendahl/Becker/Katzenburg/Schmidt; all lyrics by Boltendahl.