The Great Escape (Seventh Wonder album) explained

The Great Escape
Type:studio
Artist:Seventh Wonder
Cover:Seventh-wonder-great-escape.jpg
Released:December 3, 2010
Recorded:April – September 2010
Studio:Studio Wonderland
Studio Nyckelbräda
Genre:Progressive metal
power metal
Length:67:21
Label:Lion Music
Producer:Johan Larsson & Seventh Wonder
Prev Title:Mercy Falls
Prev Year:2008
Year:2010
Next Title:Tiara
Next Year:2018

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 for 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.[1]

Seventh Wonder

Additional musicians

Production

Notes and References

  1. (2010). "The Great Escape liner notes". In The Great Escape [CD booklet]. Lion Music.