''Heresy And Creed'' is the tenth studio album by the melodic

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 ''

Ten Ten, TEN or 10 may refer to: * 10, an even natural number following 9 and preceding 11 * one of the years 10 BC, AD 10, 1910 and 2010 * October, the tenth month of the year Places * Mount Ten, in Vietnam * Tongren Fenghuang Airport (IATA code ...

''. The album was released on 26 September 2012 in Japan and on 19 October in Europe. The official release date for North America was 22 October. It is the first album with the new lead guitarist Dan Mitchell, keyboard player

Darrel Treece-Birch Darrel Treece-Birch (born 21 January 1967, in Fleetwood, England is an English hard rock/progressive rock keyboard player and songwriter, best known for his work with the Melodic Hard Rock band Ten, as a solo artist and up until 2020, with the ...

and drummer Max Yates. Steve Mckenna also returned to the band, making it his first studio appearance for the band since the double compilation album " The Essential Collection 1995-2005" in 2005. According to Gary Hughes, the new album "Is a particularly strong selection of material. I feel this is possibly our most mature, and diverse collection of songs ever. There is literally something in there for everyone and every taste". The cover was illustrated by

Felipe Machado Franco Felipe is the Spanish variant of the name Philip, which derives from the Greek adjective ''Philippos'' "friend of horses". Felipe is also widely used in Portuguese-speaking Brazil alongside Filipe, the form commonly used in Portugal. Noteworthy ...

, known for his work with Blind Guardian. In October 2012, ''Heresy And Creed'' entered the UK Rock Album Charts at number 30.

Track listing

All songs written by

Gary Hughes Gary Hughes (born 5 July 1964) is an English hard rock singer, songwriter and musician. Apart from his work as a solo artist, Gary Hughes is the front man and main songwriter of Hard Rock/Melodic Rock band Ten. He has also worked as a produce ...

. # The Gates Of Jerusalem (Instrumental) - 1:34 # Arabian Knights - 6:26 # Gunrunning - 5:52 # The Lights Go Down - 6:12 # Raven’s Eye - 5:43 # Right Now - 5:27 # Game Of Hearts - 4:20 # The Last Time - 6:36 # The Priestess - 5:13 # Insatiable - 4:06 # Another Rainy Day - 4:57 # Unbelievable - 4:07 # The Riddle - 5:32 The Asian version (Avalon Records MICP-11064) adds: #

I Found Love - 3:02

Personnel

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vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

backing vocals A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are use ...

* Dan Mitchell – lead

s *

John Halliwell John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second E ...

– rhythm guitars *

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keyboards Keyboard may refer to: Text input * Keyboard, part of a typewriter * Computer keyboard ** Keyboard layout, the software control of computer keyboards and their mapping ** Keyboard technology, computer keyboard hardware and firmware Music * Musi ...

, programming * Steve Mckenna –

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

* Max Yates –

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...

and

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...

Production

*Produced by

*Mixing and mastering by Dennis Ward

Concepts

The album's opening tracks, "The Gates Of Jerusalem" and "Arabian Knights", are about the Christian knights who were residing in the Holy Lands and about the Siege of Jerusalem, which took place before the

Third Crusade The Third Crusade (1189–1192) was an attempt by three European monarchs of Western Christianity (Philip II of France, Richard I of England and Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor) to reconquer the Holy Land following the capture of Jerusalem by ...

Chart positions

References

{{Authority control Ten (band) albums 2012 albums Frontiers Records albums