Lightning Strikes Again

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Lightning Strikes Again
Dokken - Lightning Strikes Again.jpg
Studio album by
Dokken
ReleasedApril 8, 2008
Recorded2007
StudioChop Shop, Hollywood and Total Access Recording, Redondo Beach, California
Genre Hard rock, heavy metal
Length54:44
Label Rhino (US)
Frontiers (Europe)
King (Japan)
Producer Don Dokken, Tim David Kelly [1]
Dokken chronology
From Conception: Live 1981
(2007)		Lightning Strikes Again
(2008)		 Greatest Hits
(2010)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Imperiumi(Unrated) [3]

Lightning Strikes Again is the tenth studio album by the American heavy metal band Dokken. It was originally scheduled for release on October 24, 2007, in Japan and on October 29 worldwide, but was postponed until 2008. The album was eventually released in the UK on April 8, 2008, and in the US on May 13. [4] [5] The album entered the Billboard Top 200 at No. 133, the band's best chart performance since 2004. [6] It received some of the best reviews since the band's classic era in the 1980s. The album title comes from a track from their 1985 album Under Lock and Key . The album is also the last to feature bassist Barry Sparks and drummer Mick Brown.

Contents

Track listing

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

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Standing on the Outside" 3:52
2."Give Me a Reason" 3:50
3."Heart to Stone" 3:56
4."Disease" Mick Brown, Dokken3:30
5."How I Miss Your Smile"Dokken4:01
6."Oasis" 3:40
7."Point of No Return" 4:23
8."I Remember"Dokken4:48
9."Judgement Day" 4:02
10."It Means" 4:42
11."Release Me" 5:45
12."This Fire" 4:42
European edition bonus track
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
13."Sunset Superstar"Dokken, Levin, Brown3:38
Japanese edition bonus track
No.TitleLength
13."Leave Me Alone"4:18

Personnel

Dokken

Production

Charts

Chart (2008)Peak
position
US Billboard 200 [7]
133
US Hard Rock Albums [8]
18
US Independent Albums [9]
39

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