Louder Than Ever (album)

Louder Than Ever
Studio album by Pretty Maids
Released March 21, 2014 (2014-03-21)
Genre Hard rock, heavy metal
Label Frontiers
Producer Jacob Hansen
Pretty Maids chronology
Motherland
(2013)		 Louder Than Ever
(2014)		 Kingmaker
(2016)

Louder Than Ever is the fourteenth studio album by Danish hard rock/heavy metal Pretty Maids. It was released on March 21, 2014 by Frontiers Records.[1] The album consists of re-recordings of eight previously released songs from the period 1994 to 2006, taken from the studio albums Scream (1994), Anything Worth Doing Is Worth Overdoing (1999), Carpe Diem (2000), Planet Panic (2002), and Wake Up to the Real World (2006).[2] It also features the four new songs, "Deranged", "My Soul to Take", "Nuclear Boomerang", and "A Heart Without a Home" which was recorded especially for the album. An official music video for "Nuclear Boomerang" was released on February 10, 2014.[3]

According to lead singer Ronnie Atkins, Louder Than Ever serves as an "in between album" to tie in with the band's upcoming fifteenth studio album. Atkins has said the band "were curious to hear how some of the older songs would sound like with the band lineup we have today and in the hands of our current producer, Jacob Hansen." The band deliberately chose not to re-record songs from albums such as Future World (1987) and Jump the Gun (1990) as they are "sacred, both to ourselves as well as the fans".[2]

Track listing

Standard version
No. Title Length
1. "Deranged"   3:34
2. "Playing God"   3:53
3. "Psycho Time Bomb Planet Earth"   3:42
4. "My Soul to Take"   4:23
5. "He Who Never Lived"   4:38
6. "Virtual Brutality"   4:21
7. "Tortured Spirit"   4:14
8. "With These Eyes"   5:13
9. "Nuclear Boomerang"   4:58
10. "Snakes in Eden"   4:07
11. "Wake Up to the Real World"   3:52
12. "A Heart Without a Home"   4:37

Charts

Chart (2014) Peak
position
Danish Albums (Hitlisten)[4] 11
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[5] 59
Japanese Albums (Oricon)[6] 93
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[7] 52

References

  1. ↑ "Frontiers Music Srl | Record Label". Frontiers.it. Retrieved 2016-08-27.
  2. 1 2 "Pretty Maids To Release 'Louder Than Ever' In March". Blabbermouth.net. 2014-01-23. Retrieved 2016-08-27.
  3. ↑ "Pretty Maids - Nuclear Boomerang (Official Video / New Album 2014)". YouTube. 2014-02-10. Retrieved 2016-08-27.
  4. ↑ "Danishcharts.com – Pretty Maids – Louder Than Ever". Hung Medien. Retrieved August 29, 2016.
  5. ↑ "Longplay-Chartverfolgung at Musicline" (in German). Musicline.de. Phononet GmbH. Retrieved August 29, 2016.
  6. ↑ "Pretty Maids – Louder Than Ever". oricn ME inc. Retrieved September 25, 2016.
  7. ↑ "Swisscharts.com – Pretty Maids – Louder Than Ever". Hung Medien. Retrieved August 29, 2016.
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