Dokken "Broken Bones (CD+DVD, Argentina, Icarus Music, ICARUS 1037)"

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. 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.

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.

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.

Tracklist:

Disc 1 (CD)

1. Empire 03:33
2. Broken Bones 04:54
3. Best of Me 04:19
4. Blind 03:23
5. Waterfall 02:49  
6. The Victim of the Crime 04:31  
7. Burning Tears 04:41
8. Today (Jefferson Airplane cover) 04:21
9. For the Last Time 03:58
10. Fade Away 03:46   
11. Tonight 04:58

Time:  45:13

 

Disc 2 (DVD)

1. The Making of Broken Bones  

Mick Brown is credited on drums, but does not appear on the album. According to Wikipedia (among other sources) Jimmy DeGrasso, who has since replaced Brown in the band, played drums on the album.

Video was made for 'Empire'

Recording information:

Drums were recorded and engineered at Atrium Studios and at Total Access Studios.

Don Dokken - production

Darian Rundall - engineering

Bob St. John - mixing

Tim Kelly, Mike Sutherland - additional engineering

Wyn Davis - drum engineering, engineer and mixing on "Today"

Chris Baseford - drum engineering

Maor Appelbaum - mastering

Billionaires Boys Club "Something Wicked Comes (Japan, Polydor, POCP-1321)"

Billionaires Boys Club was a 90's Melodic Metal supergroup made up of Swedish, German and American members. The group was featured former Accept guitarist Jörg Fischer (Germany) and former Yngwie Malmsteen vocalist Mark Boals (USA) & drummer Anders Johansson (Sweden) and future HammerFall bassist Magnus Rosén (Sweden).

Their debut, Something Wicked Comes, was released in 1993.

Tracklist:

1. Won't See You Again ウォント・シー・ユー・アゲイン   5:07
2. Voyeur Romance ボイアー・ロマンス   3:32
3. Eternal Flame エターナル・フレイム   4:22
4. Something Wicked Comes サムシング・ウィキット・カムズ     4:22
5. No Time To Sleep ノー・タイム・トゥ・スリープ   2:57
6. Don't Lie To Me ドント・ライ   4:32
7. Down Down Down ダウン・ダウン・ダウン   5:08
8. Can't Last Forever キャント・ラスト・フォーエバー   4:17
9. Send Your Fat Friend Home センド・ユア・ファット・フレンド・ホーム   3:23
10. Inside Out インサイド・アウト   3:32
11. Moshing In The Pit モッシング・イン・ザ・ピット   4:40
12. Roadle Song ロードル・ソング   4:43

Initial press comes only with set of logo stickers, lyrics & OBI.

Bonus Tracks for Japan (listed on CD and Japan lyrics sheet but on back cover and booklet is only 10 tracks listed) :

11. Moshing In The Pit

12. Roadle Song

Recording information:

Producer – Jörg Fischer

Engineer – Frederik Bergengren

Yngwie Malmsteen "War To End All Wars (USA, Spitfire Records, 5171-2)"

War to End All Wars is the thirteenth studio album by guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen, released on 7 November 2000 through Pony Canyon (Japan), Spitfire Records (United States) and DreamCatcher Records (Europe). While on tour for this album, singer Mark Boals left the band and was replaced for a brief period by Jørn Lande; however, Boals returned to finish the tour. The instrumental song "Molto Arpeggiosa" is often mislabelled as "Arpeggios from Hell". The phrase "the war to end all wars" was historically used as a description of World War I, especially in the period from 1918 to 1939.

Tracklist:

1. Prophet of Doom 05:31  
2. Crucify 06:44
3. Bad Reputation 04:52
4. Catch 22 04:12
5. Masquerade 04:54  
6. Molto Arpeggiosa 04:13
7. Miracle of Life 05:39
8. The Wizard 05:18
9. Preludium 02:26
10. Wild One 05:45
11. Tarot 05:38   
12. Instrumental Institution 03:55
13. War to End All Wars 04:15
14. Black Sheep of the Family 02:16  

Time:  01:05:38  

All tracks by Yngwie J. Malmsteen, except "Black Sheep of the Family" by Hammond.

The break in the middle of "Prophet of Doom" is based on Niccolò Paganini's "Capriccio nº 24".

Japanese edition bonus tracks:

14. Treasure from the East (03:51)

15. Requiem (04:03)

Recording information:

Recorded at Studio 308 and Baroque & Roll Studios, Miami, FL.

Additional recording at White House studio, Miami, FL.

Mastered at Fuller Sound, Miami, FL.

Yngwie Malmsteen "Inspiration (Japan, Pony Canyon, PCCY-01009)"

Inspiration is the ninth studio album by guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen, released on 14 October 1996. It is a tribute album consisting entirely of covers of various bands who influenced Malmsteen. Featured on vocals are Jeff Scott Soto, Mark Boals and Joe Lynn Turner, all of whom performed on Malmsteen's first four studio albums.

Tracklist:

1. Carry On Wayward Son (Kansas cover) 05:09
2. Pictures of Home (Deep Purple cover) 04:56
3. Gates of Babylon (Rainbow cover) 07:12
4. Manic Depression (Jimi Hendrix cover) 03:39  
5. In the Dead of Night (U.K. cover) 06:11
6. Mistreated (Deep Purple cover) 07:29
7. The Sails of Charon (Scorpions cover) 05:05  
8. Demon's Eye (Deep Purple cover) 04:53
9. Anthem (Rush cover) 04:18  
10. Child in Time (Deep Purple cover) 08:07   
11. Spanish Castle Magic (Jimi Hendrix cover) 03:07  

Time:  01:00:06  

Jens Johansson performed keyboards on "Gates of Babylon", but credit was mistakenly assigned to David Rosenthal.

Rereleased in '97 as "Expanded Version of Inspiration", including one bonus CD.

Recording information:

Produced by Yngwie Malmsteen, 

Co-produced by Chris Tsangarides.

Recorded at Studio 308, Miami, Florida.

Drums recorded at Heptagon Studios, Malmo, Sweden.

Mixed at Criteria Studios, Miami, Florida.

Chris Tsangarides – engineering

Keith Rose – engineering