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.The album was released on 1 March 2010. This is the band's first release with

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. The track listing features 13 tracks, two of them being covers (" Master of Puppets" by

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" by

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), and three of them featuring guest artists:

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) guest appears in "One To Ten", Tony Kakko (from Sonata Arctica) guest appears on "Hearted" and Chris Boltendahl (from Grave Digger) guest appears in "Rebellion". Two of this album's songs ("Water, Fire, Heaven, Earth" & "Hearted") have been, among Within Temptation's "

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", the inspiration for "Forevermore", a song by the Dutch symphonic metal band

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, featuring the mild-autistic Ruurd Woltring. The recording of this song was made possible thanks to the Dutch TV-show " Niks te gek!" (Nothing too crazy), in which mentally disabled people get their wishes granted.

Track listing

Personnel

;Band members *Dennis Schunke (Sly) – lead vocals *Inga Scharf – lead vocals (effects) *Stefan Schmidt – lower rakkatakka vocals, wahwah solo guitar vocals (rhythm, lead on solos) *Ross Thompson – higher rakkatakka vocals (lead) *Ingo Sterzinger (Ike) – lowest dandan vocals (bass) *Bastian Emig – drums, growled vocals on "Hearted" ;Guest musicians *

(

) - guitar solo on "One to Ten" * Chris Boltendahl (

) - vocals on

*Orchestra on "Magic Taborea" * Tony Kakko ( Sonata Arctica) - vocals on "Hearted"

References

{{Authority control 2010 albums Napalm Records albums Van Canto albums Albums produced by Charlie Bauerfeind