Rage
In June 1999, Smolski became the new guitarist of Rage, performing with their new line up at Wacken Open Air 1999 for the first time. European and Russian tours followed.
From August to November 2000, the "Rage" album Welcome To The Other Side was recorded in the VPS Studios in Hamm. Half of the songs were composed by Victor, who was also responsible for the production.
Victor's greatest success was registered in 2001, as the song "Straight To Hell", composed by Victor for the Rage Album Welcome To The Other Side was used for the soundtrack of the very successful German movie production Der Schuh des Manitu. About 15 million spectators have so far seen this movie. In 2004 the same song was again used for another movie by Michael Bully Herbig called Traumschiff Surprise - Periode 1.
In 2002, Rage produced their next album called Unity. Unity, a first-rate metal firecracker, is an impressive document of the high technical level Victor (guitars, keyboards) and his two colleagues have achieved in their work with Rage, while embedding their virtuoso instrumental abilities cleverly into a homogeneous corset of songs. A video clip of the song "Down", was produced by director Yankovsky in the Belarus capital of Minsk, and was shown on music channels like VIVA regularly.
In October 2003, the Rage album Soundchaser was released. A guest appearance by Andi Deris (Helloween) on "Falling From Grace" lent particular appeal to this song. Beside the many concerts and festivals all around the world that Rage played, they were also touring for months together with Helloween at the end of 2003.
At the beginning of 2005, Rage got permission to use a scene out of the successful German movie production Der Schuh des Manitu, and Matthias Knézy-Bohm produced a video clip to the song "Straight To Hell", which was composed by Smolski.
Victor later appeared on the 2006 album Speak of the Dead, the 2008 album Carved in Stone and the 2010 album Strings To A Web
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