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Babylon is the fifth studio album released by the melodic hard rock band Ten.

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Babylon
Studio album by Ten
Released	August 28, 2000
Genre	Melodic Hard Rock, Hard Rock
Length	58:36
Label	Frontiers Records FR CD 046
Producer	Gary Hughes
Ten chronology
The Best of Ten 1996–1999 (1999) Babylon (2000) Far Beyond the World (2001)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

Track listing

All songs written by Gary Hughes.

1. "The Stranger" – 7:20
2. "Barricade" – 5:22
3. "Give In This Time" – 5:24
4. "Love Became The Law" – 4:41
5. "The Heat" – 5:41
6. "Silent Rain" – 6:27
7. "Timeless" – 4:54
8. "Black Hearted Woman" – 5:35
9. "Thunder In Heaven" – 6:58
10. "Valentine" – 6:14

2016 Japanese SHM-CD remaster (AVALON MICP-11298) track list:

1. "The Stranger"
2. "Barricade"
3. "Give In This Time"
4. "Dawn Star" (bonus track) - 6:07
5. "Love Became The Law"
6. "The Heat"
7. "Silent Rain"
8. "Timeless"
9. "Black Hearted Woman"
10. "Thunder In Heaven"
11. "Valentine"

Personnel

• Gary Hughes – vocals
• Vinny Burns – Lead guitars
• John Halliwell – Rhythm guitars
• Steve McKenna – bass guitar
• Greg Morgan – drums
• Don Airey – keyboards
• Gavin Fernie – the voice of Meridian
• Georgina Rudden – the voice at Cryotech and Lex's computer

Production

• Mixing – Audu Obaje
• Engineers – Audu Obaje, Neil Amison, Kirk Podmore, Vinny Burns and Gary Hughes

Concepts

• The concept of the album revolves around a futuristic story about a computer programmer and his tragic love affair.

Trivia

• The album originally meant to feature an eleventh song, named "Dawn Star". However, the record company insisted on removing the track from the final release. The track saw the light of day in October 2010 when it was featured in the setlist of the Rocktopia Podcast, AhORa Rock.
• The cover of the album was designed by Luis Royo making it the second TEN release to feature a cover designed by this artist. The first cover he made for the band was for their 1998 release Spellbound.

Chart positions

Album

Year	Chart	Position
2000
	German Albums Chart[2]	100

References

External links

• Heavy Harmonies page
• melodicrock.com review

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