Broken Bones (album)

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Broken Bones
DokkenBrokenBones.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 21–25, 2012
Recorded2012
StudioAtrium Studios, Calabasas and Total Access Recording, Redondo Beach, California
Genre Hard rock, glam metal
Length45:08
Label Frontiers
King (Japan)
Producer Don Dokken
Dokken chronology
Greatest Hits
(2010)
Broken Bones
(2012)
Return To The East Live (2016)
(2018)

Broken Bones is the eleventh studio album by the American heavy metal band Dokken. It was released in Europe on 21 September 2012 and in the US on September 25, 2012. [1] It features session drummer Jimmy DeGrasso as Mick Brown couldn't record due to scheduling conflicts, which makes Broken Bones the first Dokken album without him and also their only album to feature bassist Sean McNabb.

Contents

Aside from the standard edition CD, a special edition was released in Europe with a thirty-minute DVD feature of the making of the album. [2]

Broken Bones sold around 2,600 copies in the United States in its first week of release and landed at position No. 173 on the Billboard 200 chart. [3]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Don Dokken and Jon Levin, except where indicated

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Empire" 3:33
2."Broken Bones" 4:54
3."Best of Me" 4:18
4."Blind" 3:23
5."Waterfall"Dokken2:48
6."The Victim of the Crime"Dokken4:30
7."Burning Tears" 4:41
8."Today" (Jefferson Airplane cover) Marty Balin, Paul Kantner 4:20
9."For the Last Time" 3:58
10."Fade Away" 3:46
11."Tonight" 4:57
Japanese edition bonus track
No.TitleLength
12."Can’t Fight This Love"5:11

Personnel

Dokken

Additional musicians

Production

Charts

Chart (2012)Peak
position
US Billboard 200 [4]
173
US Hard Rock Albums [5]
12

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