''Heading for a Storm'' is the second

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by the Dutch

hard rock Hard rock or heavy rock is a loosely defined subgenre of rock music typified by aggressive vocals and distorted electric guitars. Hard rock began in the mid-1960s with the garage, psychedelic and blues rock movements. Some of the earliest hard ...

band Vandenberg, released in 1983 on

Atco Records ATCO Records is an American record label founded in 1955. It is owned by Warner Music Group and operates as an imprint of Atlantic Records. After several decades of dormancy and infrequent activity under alternating Warner Music labels, the comp ...

Cover art

This cover art has a highway in a desolate desert and large

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flying on the road. The painting on the album cover was made by guitarist

Adrian Vandenberg Adrian Vandenberg (born 31 January 1954 as Adriaan van den Berg) is a Dutch rock guitarist, best known for his tenure as one of the guitarists in Whitesnake during their successful late 1980s period and the band Vandenberg which he started in ...

Commercial performance

In the Netherlands, the preceding single "Different Worlds" ranked 17th on the singles chart,Vandenberg - Different World - dutchcharts.nl
/ref> and the album entered the top 50 in the eighth week of the album chart and ranked 14th for two weeks. In addition, it spent six weeks the on Japan's Oricon Top 100 LP chart rising to 71. On the other hand, in the U.S., it was not as successful as its previous work, ranked 169th on the Billboard 200, and when it comes to singles, "Friday Night" ranked 29th on the Billboard mainstream rock chart.

Track listing

Music and lyrics by

;Side one # "Friday Night" - 3:37 # "Welcome to the Club" - 3:30 # "Time Will Tell" - 3:48 # "Different Worlds" - 4:36 ;Side two #

"This Is War" - 4:01 # "I'm on Fire" - 4:18 # "Heading for a Storm" - 4:03 # "Rock On" - 4:05 # "Waiting for the Night" - 4:27

Personnel

Band members

*Bert Heerink – lead vocals, backing vocals *

– guitars, keyboards, backing vocals, producer, mixing, cover design *Dick Kemper – bass guitar, bass pedals, backing vocals *Jos Zoomer – drums, backing vocals

Production

* Stuart Epps - producer, engineer *

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- mastering at

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, New York

References

External links

* 1983 albums Vandenberg (band) albums Atco Records albums {{1980s-hard-rock-album-stub