Broken Bones (album)

{{Infobox album

| name = Broken Bones

| type = studio

| artist = Dokken

| cover = DokkenBrokenBones.jpg

| alt =

| released = September 21–25, 2012

| recorded = 2012

| venue =

| studio = Atrium Studios, Calabasas and Total Access Recording, Redondo Beach, California

| genre = Hard rock, glam metal

| length = 45:08

| label = Frontiers
King (Japan)

| producer = Don Dokken

| prev_title = Greatest Hits

| prev_year = 2010

| next_title = Return To The East Live (2016)

| next_year = 2018

}}

Broken Bones is the eleventh studio album by the American heavy metal band Dokken. It was released in Europe on 21 September 2012 and in the US on September 25, 2012.{{cite web|title=DOKKEN: 'Broken Bones' Album Details Revealed|date = 28 August 2012|url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=178696|publisher=Blabbermouth.net|accessdate=28 August 2012}} It features session drummer Jimmy DeGrasso as Mick Brown couldn't record due to scheduling conflicts, which makes Broken Bones the first Dokken album without him and also their only album to feature bassist Sean McNabb.

Aside from the standard edition CD, a special edition was released in Europe with a thirty-minute DVD feature of the making of the album.{{cite web|url=http://www.frontiers.it/album/5070/|title='Frontiers Special Edition Listing'}}

Broken Bones sold around 2,600 copies in the United States in its first week of release and landed at position No. 173 on the Billboard 200 chart.{{cite web |url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=180342 |title=DOKKEN: 'Broken Bones' First-Week Sales Revealed |date=4 October 2012 |publisher=Blabbermouth.net|accessdate=3 February 2013}}

Track listing

{{Track listing

| all_writing = Don Dokken and Jon Levin, except where indicated

| title1 = Empire

| length1 = 3:33

| title2 = Broken Bones

| length2 = 4:54

| title3 = Best of Me

| length3 = 4:18

| title4 = Blind

| length4 = 3:23

| title5 = Waterfall

| writer5 = Dokken

| length5 = 2:48

| title6 = The Victim of the Crime

| writer6 = Dokken

| length6 = 4:30

| title7 = Burning Tears

| length7 = 4:41

| title8 = Today

| note8 = Jefferson Airplane cover

| writer8 = Marty Balin, Paul Kantner

| length8 = 4:20

| title9 = For the Last Time

| length9 = 3:58

| title10 = Fade Away

| length10 = 3:46

| title11 = Tonight

| length11 = 4:57

}}

{{tracklist

| headline = Japanese edition bonus track

| title12 = Can’t Fight This Love

| length12 =5:11

}}

Personnel

=Dokken=

=Additional musicians=

=Production=

  • Don Dokken - production
  • Darian Rundall - engineering
  • Bob St. John - mixing
  • Tim Kelly, Mike Sutherland - additional engineering
  • Wyn Davis - drum engineering, engineer and mixing on "Today"
  • Chris Baseford - drum engineering
  • Maor Appelbaum - mastering

Charts

class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
Chart (2012)

! Peak
position

scope="row"| US Billboard 200{{cite web|url=https://www.billboard.com/music/dokken/chart-history/billboard-200|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180509053546/https://www.billboard.com/music/dokken/chart-history/billboard-200|title=Dokken - Chart history - Billboard|work=Billboard|archive-date=9 May 2018|access-date=15 April 2021}}

| {{center|173}}

scope="row"| US Hard Rock Albums{{cite web|url=http://www.billboard.com/artist/301073/dokken/chart?f=795|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141011060528/http://www.billboard.com/artist/301073/dokken/chart?f=795|title=Dokken - Chart history - Billboard|work=Billboard|archive-date=11 October 2014|access-date=15 April 2021}}

| {{center|12}}

References

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{{Dokken}}

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Category:Dokken albums

Category:King Records (Japan) albums

Category:2012 albums

Category:Frontiers Records albums

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