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Michael Wagener (born 25 April 1949) is a German former record producer, mixer and engineer from Hamburg , best known for his work with many popular American hard rock and heavy metal bands in the late 1980s. He is particularly renowned for his multi-amping and re-amping techniques. Wagener's works have sold over 90 million albums worldwide.

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18-462: Black Clouds may refer to: Music [ edit ] Albums [ edit ] Black Clouds , an album by Outrage (1988) Black Clouds , an album by Grant Nicholas (2015) Songs [ edit ] "Black Clouds", a song by D-Black (2013) "Black Clouds", a song by NCT 127 from 2 Baddies (2022) "Black Clouds", a song by Nesey Gallons from Two Bicycles (2009) "Black Clouds",

36-488: A compilation album on April 20, held a special concert with an orchestra on April 24, and released a film based on the band in May. The film, Hagane Iro no Sora no Kanata he ( 鋼音色の空の彼方へ ) , is based on the story of Outrage and drafted by music critic Masanori Ito . The album, Square, Triangle, Circle & Future , compiles songs from their career, including a demo with original vocalist Kazutoyo Ito and two new tracks written for

54-542: A cover of "Fight Fire with Fire" to the Metallica tribute album Metal-Ikka . In 2009 they released a new self-titled album, which was recorded in Sweden with Fredrik Nordström and marked a return to their thrash sound. On March 23, 2010, the band was given the "Aichi Prefecture Cultural Art Prize" for their continued musical activities in their hometown of Nagoya. Outrage collaborated with mixed martial arts promotion Deep for

72-783: A friendship with singer Don Dokken , Wagener moved to Los Angeles. In 1981 he produced the first Dokken album, and would go on to produce such seminal albums as Skid Row 's self-titled debut, which sold five million copies in the US alone. Wagener also mixed Metallica 's 1986 classic Master of Puppets . He also engineered the single version of Janet Jackson 's " Black Cat ", his only pop collaboration. Wagener has produced or mixed platinum selling albums by Mötley Crüe , W.A.S.P. , Overkill , Accept , Great White , Stryper , Poison , Keel , Alice Cooper , Lordi , Extreme , Megadeth , Janet Jackson , Ozzy Osbourne , Dokken , Metallica , White Lion and Skid Row . Wagener believes that "psychology

90-608: A hard rock/ stoner rock sound for 2002's 24-7 and 2004's Cause For Pause , signing to Victor Entertainment for the latter. To celebrate the band's 20th anniversary in 2007, Naoki Hashimoto returned for what was supposed to be a few performances, including one at Loud Park '07 . But the following year it was announced he would fully rejoin Outrage and they released the limited edition double live album Awakening 2008 , which contains performances of their albums The Final Day and Life Until Deaf in their entirety. They also contributed

108-413: A lot of outside influences, because they are scared it would take away from their creativity or credit. In those cases, if you want to achieve a certain result, you have to plant a "creative seed" which, in a few days will turn into the result you are looking for, but it still seems like it was all the idea of the musician him/herself. The downside, of course is, that the musician looks at it as if he did ALL

126-461: A song by The String Cheese Incident from Born on the Wrong Planet (1997) "Black Clouds", a song by Wiz Kilo (2014) See also [ edit ] Black Clouds & Silver Linings , an album by Dream Theater Black Cloud (disambiguation) Dark Cloud (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with

144-640: Is a Japanese thrash metal band, formed in Nagoya in 1982. They made their debut in 1987 with a lineup of Yosuke Abe on guitar, Yoshihiro Yasui on bass, Shinya Tange on drums and Naoki Hashimoto on vocals. Hashimoto left the band in 1999, but the group continued as a three piece and he returned in 2007. With a career spanning over four decades, Outrage are one of few Japanese metal bands to have never disbanded or paused activities. Formed in 1982 by guitarist Yosuke Abe, bassist Yoshihiro Yasui, drummer Shinya Tange and vocalist Kazutoyo Ito when they were teenagers, Outrage

162-420: Is a big part of getting great results out of musicians." He also argues that the work of a real producer is sometimes undermined or ignored by some bands who feel they can produce their albums on their own once they work with a producer. Comments Wagener: Some [bands] are very open minded and you can make suggestions about musical changes or ideas and they will pick it up and make it their own. Others don't want

180-481: The Exploring Side containing original material. In 2016, the second Loud∞Out Fest was held on May 1 and also included Anthem and Lost Society in addition to the two namesake acts. Outrage were one of 100 acts that provided a song for the video game Let It Die . With 2017 marking the 30th anniversary since their debut EP, Outrage celebrated the occasion in several ways. The 2 CD/1 DVD compilation set XXX Box

198-473: The October 24, 2010 digital song "Dial 'A' Annihilate (Deep Fighters VS Outrage)" to celebrate their 50th tournament. The song features several Deep fighters on backing vocals, including then-current champions Yusuke Kawaguchi , Riki Fukuda , Yuya Shirai and Katsunori Kikuno . Now with Universal , the band released the album Outraged on June 5, 2013, once again working with Nordström. Outrage performed at

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216-561: The Yoko Fest The Final concert on September 12, 2014 in tribute to the recently deceased bassist of fellow thrash metal band United . The group teamed up with Loudness to hold the first Loud∞Out Fest on May 2, 2015. Outrage released the album Genesis I on October 7. It is split into two sides; the Genesis Side composed of covers of songs by early Japanese rock bands such as Happy End , The Mops , Blues Creation and Gedō , and

234-567: The film. Michael Wagener Wagener was the original guitarist for the German band Accept . When he turned 18, he was drafted into the West German army and was stationed 350 miles away from home. This made it difficult for him to practice with the rest of the band and hence he quit the band. After completing his military service, Wagener began working as an audio engineer in Hamburg in 1972. Through

252-402: The support act for Pantera 's first Japanese tour. Outrage switched labels to East West Japan with the release of 1993's Spit . Their next two albums, 1995's Life Until Deaf and 1997's Who We Are , were both produced by Michael Wagener . In 1999 singer Hashimoto left the band, but they continued as a three piece with Yasui and Abe sharing vocals. During this period their music changed to

270-466: The title Black Clouds . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Black_Clouds&oldid=1161638827 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Outrage (band) Outrage

288-520: Was influenced by new wave of British heavy metal (NWOBHM) bands in their early years. Ito left in 1986 and was replaced by Naoki Hashimoto. After independently releasing their self-titled debut EP in 1987, Outrage's first album Black Clouds followed in 1988 on Polydor Records . Their second Blind to Reality was released in 1989, and their third The Great Blue in 1990. For 1991's The Final Day , Outrage traveled to Germany to have it produced by Accept drummer Stefan Kaufmann . In 1992, they were

306-450: Was mixed by Peter Tägtgren , on October 11. In 2019, Outrage celebrated the 40th anniversary of the NWOBHM. They released a cover of Jaguar 's "Axe Crazy" as a limited edition 7-inch vinyl EP, backed with a cover of "Baphomet" by Angel Witch, on April 24. Their fourteenth studio album, Run Riot , was released on April 15, 2020. To celebrate the band's 35th anniversary in 2022, they released

324-473: Was released on February 16. The 2017 edition of the Loud∞Out Fest was called a "tour" and saw two concerts on May 4 and 6 that included Galneryus . Outrage held their own festival for their anniversary called Gokuaku-sai ( 極悪祭 ) on July 23 that included Cocobat , Casbah, Doom , Angel Witch , Singo Otani (United), Hideki Ishima and themselves. The band released their thirteenth album Raging Out , which

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