Can Skald Actually Use Every Effect of Raging Song Simultaneously?

The Skald is a hybrid class between barbarian and bard, and in the description of the bard's performance it says that you can only utilize one performance at once. This text has been removed for the Skald's performance (known as raging song), and I want to know if that seems intentional.

If it was intentional, then that means you could use each possible effect simultaneously. There are only 5 aspects for the Skald, so that seems to make sense when compared to the bard's 13 performances, but this could just be due to the fact that the bard is a core class that just got more attention than skald.

Here's the bard passage:

" Starting a bardic performance is a standard action, but it can be maintained each round as a free action. Changing a bardic performance from one effect to another requires the bard to stop the previous performance and start a new one as a standard action. A bardic performance cannot be disrupted, but it ends immediately if the bard is killed, paralyzed, stunned, knocked unconscious, or otherwise prevented from taking a free action to maintain it each round. A bard cannot have more than one bardic performance in effect at one time."

Here's the equivalent Skald passage

" Starting a raging song is a standard action, but it can be maintained each round as a free action. A raging song cannot be disrupted, but it ends immediately if the skald is killed, paralyzed, stunned, knocked unconscious, or otherwise prevented from taking a free action each round to maintain it. A raging song counts as the bard’s bardic performance special ability for any effect that affects bardic performances. A skald may learn bard masterpieces (Pathfinder RPG Ultimate Magic 21). "

and the links I got the passages from (I checked, and the Skald passage phrasing is exactly identical to the actual source book Advanced Class Guide pg. 49 at the bottom right of the page):

https://aonprd.com/ClassDisplay.aspx?ItemName=Skald

https://aonprd.com/ClassDisplay.aspx?ItemName=Bard

No, raging song acts like bardic performance and inherits the one-at-a-time limit.

No, raging song acts like bardic performance and inherits the one-at-a-time limit.

What makes you say that?

Anger management: If I am in a rage, or an Unchained rage, or a bloodrage, or some similar form of rage, can I stack up as many benefits as possible?

No. When you either activate or are affected by a new form of rage (such as a barbarian’s rage, a skald’s raging song, a bloodrager’s bloodrage, and the rage spell), you can choose whether to keep your current rage or to accept the new rage instead, much like a creature affected by multiple polymorph effects. If you are in the throes of a rage that you could not automatically end on your own, such as a wild rager’s wild rage, you may not choose to replace it with a new rage effect. The exception to this rule is the skald’s master skald ability, which explicitly allows the skald’s raging song to stack with other rage effects.
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From what I read, each Raging Song is a different raging effect, so you can't stack different Skald Raging Songs.

“A raging song counts as the bard’s bardic performance special ability for any effect that affects bardic performances.” I think (though I may be wrong) that the limit of 1 bardic performance at a time would count as an “effect that affects bardic performances” in this instance.

“A raging song counts as the bard’s bardic performance special ability for any effect that affects bardic performances.” I think (though I may be wrong) that the limit of 1 bardic performance at a time would count as an “effect that affects bardic performances” in this instance.

From my reading of the term "effect" in Pathfinder, I wouldn't consider that limitation an effect.

To continue a raging song you have to continue performing. It even mentions this in the song or marching. The song of marching uses 1 round of raging song, but last an hour and can be continued by expending another round at the end of the hour. It also explicitly states the skald has to continue performing for the song to continue even though he does not need to expend more rounds of raging song.

Using two performance skills for two totally separate skills is a bit silly. Sure you can beat on a drum while singing, but that is usually using the drum to enhance the song you are singing. I have never heard of anyone who can perform two completely separate songs at the same time and have it sound good.

Two stack the performances you would need to start each raging song separately. While it only takes a free action to continue them the GM has the discretion to limit the number of free actions in a round. A sensible GM will use this to limit this type of thing.