Pandemonium (Pretty Maids album)

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Pandemonium
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Studio album by
Released14 October 2010 (2010-10-14)
RecordedJanuary–February 2010 at Hansen Studios, Ribe, Denmark
Genre Hard rock, heavy metal
Label Frontiers
Producer Jacob Hansen
Pretty Maids chronology
Wake Up to the Real World
(2006)
Pandemonium
(2010)
It Comes Alive - Maid in Switzerland
(2012)
Singles from Pandemonium
  1. "Little Drops of Heaven"
    Released: 19 April 2010 [1]

Pandemonium is the twelfth studio album by Danish hard rock/heavy metal band Pretty Maids. The album was released on 14 May 2010 on Frontiers Records. Lead singer Ronnie Atkins has called the album "the best album we've done in something like 15 or 20 years". [2]

Contents

The album debuted at number 83 on the German Albums Chart, becoming Pretty Maids' first album to chart in more than 10 years (since Anything Worth Doing Is Worth Overdoing in 1999). In their native Denmark, the album debuted at number 14 and became Pretty Maids' highest-charting album since Scream (1994) which charted at number 27.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Ronnie Atkins and Ken Hammer; except "Pandemonium" and "Final Day of Innocence" written by Atkins, Hammer and Morten Sandager..

No.TitleLength
1."Pandemonium"5:21
2."I.N.V.U."4:57
3."Little Drops of Heaven"4:37
4."One World One Truth"4:19
5."Final Day of Innocence"4:16
6."Cielo Drive"3:53
7."It Comes at Night"4:16
8."Old Enough to Know"4:16
9."Beautiful Madness"4:03
10."Breathless"4:00
11."It Comes At Night" (remix)5:46
Japanese version (bonus track)
No.TitleLength
12."Ka-Ching"3:19

Personnel

Charts

Chart (2010)Peak
position
Danish Albums (Hitlisten) [3] 14
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [4] 83
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) [5] 45
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [6] 63

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