Biography
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Balance of Power’s second release Book of Secrets is a thematic album, inspired by “The
Bible Code”, a book by Michael Drosnin. The album received rave reviews from all over Europe and Japan and was welcomed to the radio again with songs “Seven
Days into Nevermore” & “Miracles and Dreams” getting heavy rotation on all syndicated metal shows. Bruce Dickinson highlighted the album on the European underground
network in which he played the entire album and talked about how much he loved it.
Grand Illusions, not quite.
Following up on the success of Book of Secrets, Balance Of Power returned to the studio and found inspiration for their next album Ten More Tales of Grand Illusion. This album was again written by Pete and Tony despite the fact that at this stage Tony was not in the band, but he still had the passion and courage to keep writing for the band.
The album was recorded and produced by Lionel in London at POD and Summit studios.
This time the band decided to mix and master at OarFin Studios in Minneapolis with Todd Fitzgerald engineering.
This process turned out to be an ongoing successful thing, therefore, Ten More Tales, Perfect Balance and Heathen Machine were all recorded and mixed in the same way. More changes seemed imminent. Keyboardist Ivan had become increasingly busy with his label Anthem, so much so that he never ended up contributing anything to Ten More Tales. It was mutually agreed that Ivan would leave the group and endeavour to build his record company.
After which publishing, management and promotion deals were struck with Brainstorm in Germany for Europe. Nightmare Records signed the band for North America. And due to bad record keeping and communication the group decided to leave their European label Point and signed with Massacre Records in Germany for all of Europe. Leon Lawson was brought in as a guest replacement for Ivan, but this was not to be the end of the lineup changes.
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“In the past, people have given eleven out of ten but I didn't really appreciate what that meant until I heard this album.”