The Great Escape (Seventh Wonder Album)

''The Great Escape'' is the fourth album by Swedish progressive metal band Seventh Wonder. It was recorded over the Spring and Summer of 2010, and was released on December 3, 2010. It is also the last album recorded with Johnny Sandin on drums, as he left the band due to personal reasons after the recording and subsequent shows. "Alley Cat" is the first Seventh Wonder song to have an accompanying music video from the band.

The 30-minute title track ''The Great Escape'' is the first (and so far only) song by the band to be longer than 10 minutes. It is an epic song based on the poems 'Aniara' by Swedish Nobel laureate Harry Martinson. It deals with the tragedy of a spaceship which, originally bound for Mars with a cargo of surviving colonists from a ravaged and destroyed Earth, is ejected from the solar system and becomes entangled in an existential struggle. The first track 'Wiseman' doubles loosely as a prequel to the events of 'The Great Escape'.

Track listing

Lyrics by Blomqvist/Karevik. Music & arrangements by Seventh Wonder.

Personnel

All information from the album booklet.(2010). "''The Great Escape'' liner notes". In ''The Great Escape'' D booklet Lion Music.

Seventh Wonder
*Tommy Karevik – vocals, lyrics
*Andreas Söderin – keyboard
*Johan Liefvendahl – guitar
* Andreas Blomqvist – bass, lyrics
*Johnny Sandin – drums

Additional musicians
*Johan Larsson – additional vocals, recording, cover art, photography
*Arto Järvela – violin on "King of Whitewater"
*Jenny Karevik – female vocals

Production
*Erik Mårtensson – mixing, mastering

References

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2010 albums
Seventh Wonder albums