Embrace the healing power of music. This compilation of 12 cover songs reminds me a lot of Guns 'N Roses 1993 album The Spaghetti Incident in terms of conception. Both are albums of covers that just happened to be the last statement of the first incarnations of both bands. But that's where the similarities end. Lack of execution made Spaghetti Incident flop, but Renegades will not meet the same fate.
Renegades is a surprisingly diverse album from Rage.
A good case could be made that the previous three RATM albums were too similar. The band took a good thing and overdid it, but not here. The band managed to take all these songs and make them distinctly its own. The album is a textbook study of how to do cover songs right. Renegades was an exercise in song reconstruction.