''The Twilight Chronicles'' is the eighth studio album released by the British
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 marked a shift in the band's sound, relying more heavily on symphonic orchestrations and musical landscape, more so than ever before.
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 producer ...
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# "The Prologue (The Elysian Fields)/Rome" – 12:19
# "The Chronicles" – 6:43
# "The Elysian Fields" – 6:49
# "Hallowed Ground" – 7:39
# "This Heart Goes On" – 4:24
# "Oblivion" – 7:03
# "The Twilight Masquerade" – 6:38
# "Tourniquet" – 6:49
# "Born to the Grave" – 5:00
# "When This Night Is Done/The Epilogue" – 7:36
The Asian version (Avalon Records MICP-10582) adds:
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"Fahrenheit" – 5:54
Personnel
*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 producer ...
– lead, backing vocals and programming
*Chris Francis – lead guitars and bass guitar
*John Halliwell – rhythm guitars
* Paul Hodson – keyboards and programming
*Frank Basile – drums
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and percussion
;Production
*Executive producers – Chris Francis and John Halliwell
*Mixing – Gary Hughes
*Engineer – Gary Hughes, Chris Francis, Paul Hodson and Frank Basile
*Additional engineering – Simon Brayshaw, Jason Hutton, Roger Smith and Annette Stelfox
*Drums recorded by Frank Basile then "Gogged Up" by Chris Francis.
Concepts
*"The Prologue (The Elysian Fields) / Rome" is about the legend of the foundation of Ancient Rome.
*"The Chronicles" is based on '' The Chronicles of Narnia'', a series of books by C.S Lewis
Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British writer and Anglican lay theologian. He held academic positions in English literature at both Oxford University (Magdalen College, Oxford, Magdalen College, 1925–1 ...
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References
External links
Heavy Harmonies page
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Ten (band) albums
2006 albums
Albums produced by Gary Hughes
Frontiers Records albums