Nine Lives (Von Hertzen Brothers album)

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Nine Lives
Von Hertzen Brothers Nine Lives cover.jpg
Studio album by Von Hertzen Brothers
Released 18 March 2013
Recorded The House of Love and Valamo Monastery
Genre Progressive rock, hard rock
Length47:16
Label Spinefarm Records/Doing Being Music
Producer James Spectrum and Von Hertzen Brothers
Von Hertzen Brothers chronology
Stars Aligned
(2011)
Nine Lives
(2013)
New Day Rising
(2015)
Singles from Nine Lives
  1. "Flowers and Rust"
    Released: 4 February 2013
  2. "Insomniac"
    Released: 24 May 2013
  3. "Coming Home"
    Released: 29 August 2013

Nine Lives is the fifth studio album by Finnish progressive rock band Von Hertzen Brothers. It was released on 18 March 2013. [1] [2] [3]

Von Hertzen Brothers Finnish band

Von Hertzen Brothers is a Finnish rock group formed in 2000, by three brothers. Their music is a mix of classic rock combined with progressive elements, folk, punk and contemporary rock. Each of the brothers have a notable history in the Finnish rock scene, starting from the early 90’s. The guitar-vocalist Kie von Hertzen has played in Don Huonot[fi] (1992-2003), the singer-guitarist Mikko von Hertzen is an ex-member of Egotrippi[fi] (1994-1998) and Lemonator (1995-1998), and the vocalist-bass guitarist Jonne von Hertzen won the National Rock Contest in 1998 with his band Cosmos Tango and later joined to play the bass in Jonna Tervomaa’s band (1999-2005). From 2006 to 2016 the band had two other permanent members: Mikko Kaakkuriniemi on the drums and Juha Kuoppala on the keyboards. In 2017 the band returned to its 2006 lineup with Sami Kuoppamäki on drums. The current tour lineup also features a Swedish keyboard player Robert Engstrand.

Contents

"Flowers and Rust", the first single from the album, won the "Anthem" award at the 2013 Progressive Music Awards. [4]

Track listing

All music composed by Von Hertzen Brothers. All lyrics written by Von Hertzen Brothers, except "Coming Home" and "Black Heart's Cry", written by Von Hertzen Brothers and L.A. Skin. [5]

Nine Lives
No.TitleLength
1."Insomniac"3:57
2."Flowers and Rust"4:22
3."Coming Home"5:14
4."Lost in Time"5:11
5."Separate Forevers"4:44
6."One May Never Know"3:54
7."World Without"7:23
8."Black Heart's Cry"4:56
9."Prospect for Escape"7:35
Total length:47:16

Personnel

Additional musicians

William Zeitler is a performer on the armonica, or glass harmonica, an instrument invented by Benjamin Franklin. In 2013 he published The Glass Armonica: The Music and the Madness, a book about glass instruments and their history.

Production

Mikko Raita is a Helsinki, Finland based music mixing and recording engineer as well as a producer, guitar player and co-owner of Studio Kekkonen. Clients include Apocalyptica, Sunrise Avenue, Tuomo, Deep Insight, Bleak, Ana Johnsson and Stratovarius.

Charts

Chart (2013)Peak
position
Finnish Albums Charts [6] 2

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