{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2022}} {{Infobox album | name = Colours | type = Studio album | artist = [[Stone (Finnish band)|Stone]] | cover = Colours (Stone album).jpg | alt = | released = 1990 | recorded = 1989–1990 in MTV Studios & Finnvox Studios | venue = | studio = | genre = [[Thrash metal]] | length = 44:13 | label = Megamania | producer = Mikko Karmila, Stone | prev_title = [[No Anaesthesia!]] | prev_year = 1989 | next_title = [[Emotional Playground]] | next_year = 1991 }} '''''Colours''''' is the third album by Finnish [[thrash metal]] band [[Stone (Finnish band)|Stone]], released in 1990. This is their first album with Nirri Niiranen, replacing original guitarist Jiri Jalkanen, who had been fired from the band just before the recording sessions started.<ref name="lamusicawards">{{cite web|url=http://www.lamusicawards.com/act/j-garcia/|title=J Garcia|website=Los Angeles Music Awards|accessdate=12 June 2021}}</ref> ''Colours'' is considered to be more technical and experimental than Stone's first two albums, continuing the elements of [[progressive metal|progressive]] that the band had used on its predecessor ''[[No Anaesthesia!]]'', and featuring more complexity and mid-paced tempos, as well as longer songs in length.<ref name="lamusicawards" /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nolifetilmetal.com/stone.htm|title=No Life 'til Metal – CD Gallery – Stone|website=nolifetilmetal.com|accessdate=12 June 2021}}</ref> It was remastered and re-issued by Megamania in 2003. The Japanese version had a redder pigment used on the album cover.<ref>[http://www.metal-archives.com/release.php?id=13656], Encyclopaedia Metallum. Retrieved 29 August 2010.</ref> [[#Empty Suit EP|An EP]] was released for the album track "Empty Suit".
== Track listing == {{Track listing | title1 = Stone Cold Soul | writer1 = Joutsenniemi | length1 = 5:57 | title2 = Another Morning | writer2 = Latvala, Joutsenniemi | length2 = 3:10 | title3 = White Worms | writer3 = Joutsenniemi | length3 = 6:09 | title4 = Empty Suit | writer4 = Latvala, Joutsenniemi | length4 = 6:13 | title5 = Spring | writer5 = Latvala, Joutsenniemi | length5 = 5:44 | title6 = Storm Inside the Calm | writer6 = Latvala, Joutsenniemi | length6 = 6:01 | title7 = Ocean of Sand | writer7 = Latvala, Joutsenniemi | length7 = 4:58 | title8 = Meaning of Life | writer8 = Joutsenniemi | length8 = 6:01 | title9 = Friends | note9 = bonus track on CD versions, [[Led Zeppelin]] cover | writer9 = [[Jimmy Page]], [[Robert Plant]] | length9 = 5:31
| total_length = 49:49 }}
== Personnel == * Janne Joutsenniemi – bass, vocals * Nirri Niiranen – guitar * [[Roope Latvala]] – guitar * Pekka Kasari – drums
;Additional personnel * Janne Kannas [[violin]] on "White Worms" * Miika Uuksulainen [[cello]] on "White Worms" * Sennu Laine cello on "White Worms"<ref>[http://www.finnmusic.net/main.php?66505956480775535112], Finnmusic.net. Retrieved 29 August 2010.</ref><ref>[http://www.discogs.com/Stone-Colours/release/2437781], Discogs.com, Retrieved 2 April 2011</ref>
;Production * Mikko Karmila – producer
== ''Empty Suit'' EP == A four-track EP was released for "Empty Suit"<ref>[http://www.metal-archives.com/release.php?id=32908], Metal-Archives.net, Retrieved 1 April 2011</ref> in 1990.<ref name=autogenerated1>[http://rateyourmusic.com/release/ep/stone/empty_suit/], Rateyourmusic.net, Retrieved 1 April 2011.</ref> The [[A-side]] contained two tracks from ''Colours'', "Empty Suit" and "Friends", while the B-side contained two live tracks. The live performances on side B were taken from a show in Helsinki on 15 March 1990. This show was guitarist Jiri Jalkanen's final show with Stone before his departure from the band.<ref name=autogenerated1 />
{{Track listing | headline = Side A | title1 = Empty Suit | writer1 = Latvala, Joutsenniemi | length1 = 6:13 | title2 = Friends | note2 = [[Led Zeppelin]] cover | writer2 = [[Jimmy Page]], [[Robert Plant]] | length2 = 5:31 }} {{Track listing | headline = Side B | title3 = Empty Corner | note3 = Live | writer3 = Latvala, Joutsenniemi | length3 = 6:04 | title4 = Meat Mincing Machine | note4 = Live | writer4 = Joutsenniemi, Latvala | length4 = 5:46 }}
== Charts == {| class="wikitable" |- ! Chart (2013) ! Peak<br />position |- {{album chart|Finland|14|artist=Stone|album=Colours}} |}
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