Rocket Ride

This article is about the album by Edguy. For the song by Kiss, see Rocket Ride (song). For the video game technique, see Rocket riding.

Rocket Ride is the seventh full-length album by German power metal band Edguy, released on 20 January 2006. It features a style that differs from their usual power metal style and is more oriented towards hard rock.

Rocket Ride
Studio album by Edguy
Released	20 January 2006
Recorded	2005
Studio	Gate Studio, Wolfsburg, Germany
Genre	Power metal, progressive metal, hard rock
Length	60:03
Label	Nuclear Blast
Producer	Sascha Paeth and Edguy
Edguy chronology
Hellfire Club (2004) Rocket Ride (2006) Tinnitus Sanctus (2008)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Hardcore Sounds	[2]
Sputnikmusic	[3]
Blabbermouth.net	[4]
Metal Hammer (GER)	[5]

In Europe, the limited first edition was released as a digibook, featuring a photographic history of the group with formerly unreleased pictures from their early days and the bonus live track: "Land of the Miracle".^[6]

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Tobias Sammet; all music is composed by Tobias Sammet, except "Out of Vogue" by Sammet, Jens Ludwig.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Sacrifice"	8:01
2.	"Rocket Ride"	4:47
3.	"Wasted Time"	5:48
4.	"Matrix"	4:09
5.	"Return to the Tribe"	6:06
6.	"The Asylum"	7:38
7.	"Save Me"	3:47
8.	"Catch of the Century"	4:02
9.	"Out of Vogue"	4:36
10.	"Superheroes"	3:19
11.	"Trinidad"	3:28
12.	"Fucking with Fire (Hair Force One)"	4:22
13.	"Land of the Miracle" (Live in Brazil) (Limited edition bonus track)	5:49
14.	"Reach Out" (Japanese bonus track)	4:05
15.	"Lavatory Love Machine" (Acoustic version) (Japanese bonus track)	4:37

The vinyl release also contained the tracks "Spooks in the Attic", "Blessing In Disguise", "Judas at the Opera", and "The Spirit" from the previously released Superheroes EP.

Personnel

Band members

• Tobias Sammet – vocals
• Jens Ludwig – guitar
• Dirk Sauer – guitar
• Tobias "Eggi" Exxel – bass guitar
• Felix Bohnke – drums

Additional musicians

• Miro Rodenberg – keyboards, orchestral arrangements
• Amanda Somerville, Oliver Hartmann, Ralf Zdiarstek, Thomas Rettke – backing vocals

Production

• Sascha Paeth – producer, engineer, mixing, mastering
• Philip Colodetti, Olaf Reitmeier – engineers