Stormwarning (Ten album)

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Stormwarning
Stormwarning (Ten album - cover art).jpg
Studio album by
Ten
ReleasedFebruary 18, 2011 (2011-02-18)
Genre Hard rock
Length59:24
Label Frontiers Records
Producer Gary Hughes and Dennis Ward
Ten chronology
The Twilight Chronicles
(2006)
Stormwarning
(2011)
Heresy and Creed
(2012)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Classic Rock 7/10 [1]
Powermetal.de  [ de ]8/10 [2]
Rock Hard 8/10 [3]

Stormwarning is the ninth studio album by the melodic hard rock band Ten . It was the band's first album after a five-year break. It was released in Japan in January 2011 and in the rest of the world in February the same year. The album cover was designed by Luis Royo. It was the first Ten album to be mixed and mastered by Dennis Ward. The band continued their collaboration with the well known music producer for their subsequent studio albums as well, including the release of the band's latest studio album Here Be Monsters .

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Gary Hughes.

  1. "Endless Symphony" – 7:26
  2. "Centre of My Universe" – 6:07
  3. "Kingdom Come" – 5:35
  4. "Book of Secrets" – 5:18
  5. "Stormwarning" – 5:39
  6. "Invisible" – 5:38
  7. "Love Song" – 7:07
  8. "The Hourglass and the Landslide" – 4:49
  9. "Destiny" – 6:13
  10. "The Wave" – 5:32

The Asian version (Avalon Records MICP-10972) adds:

  1. "The Darkness" – 4:19

Personnel

Production

Concepts

The song "Kingdom Come" was inspired by a personal family story of the singer Gary Hughes [4]

Chart positions

YearChartPosition
2011
HMV Japanese Charts15

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References

  1. "Melodic Rock Round-up: April 2011". 2 March 2011.
  2. "Review | TEN - Stormwarning". Powermetal.De. 18 February 2011. Retrieved 17 August 2022.
  3. "TEN - Stormwarning".
  4. "TEN Official" . Retrieved 7 October 2014.