Perfect Balance

{{Infobox album | name = Perfect Balance | type = studio | artist = Balance of Power | cover = Balance4.jpg | alt = | released = 2001 | recorded = POD Studios & Summit Studios, 2000 | venue = | studio = | genre = Power metal, progressive metal, Christian metal | length = 63:26 | label = Avalon Marquee (Japan) Massacre Records (Europe) Nightmare Records (US) | producer = Lionel Hicks | prev_title = Ten More Tales of Grand Illusion | prev_year = 1999 | next_title = Heathen Machine | next_year = 2003 }} {{Music ratings | rev2 = ''Kerrang!'' | rev2score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Shiels |first=Liam |date=July 28, 2001 |title=Albums |magazine=Kerrang! |location=UK |publisher=EMAP |issue=863 |page=49}}</ref> }} '''''Perfect Balance''''' is the fourth album by English heavy metal band Balance of Power. It was released in 2001 and is the last album to feature lead singer Lance King.

== Production and recording ==

''Perfect Balance'' was produced and engineered by Lionel Hicks. It was recorded at POD Studios and Summit Studios, both in London, England. Mixing was handled by Todd Fitzgerald, Lance King and Lionel Hicks at Oarfin Studios, in Minneapolis, US. The tracks "Time of Our Lives" and "The Other Side of Paradise" were the only ones mixed by Dennis Ward, with King and Hicks.<ref>[https://archive.today/20120721234737/http://www.balance-of-power.com/discography/perfectbalance.htm Perfect Balance] on Balance-of-power. All vocal tracks recorded by Lance King at Nightmare Records, US.</ref>

Art design was done by Will Putnam and Lance King.

== Track listing == All songs written by Lance King, Tony Ritchie, and Pete Southern, except where noted.

{{Track listing | headline = | total_length = | title1 = Higher Than the Sun | writer1 = | length1 = 7:03 | title2 = Shelter Me | writer2 = Ritchie | length2 = 5:17 | title3 = Fire Dance | writer3 = | length3 = 6:50 | title4 = One Voice | writer4 = | length4 = 5:24 | title5 = The Pleasure Room | writer5 = | length5 = 6:03 | title6 = Killer or the Cure | writer6 = | length6 = 5:37 | title7 = House of Cain | writer7 = King, Ritchie | length7 = 5:06 | title8 = Hard Life | writer8 = | length8 = 6:35 | title9 = Searching for the Truth | writer9 = | length9 = 4:47 |}}

{{Track listing | headline = Japanese Edition additional tracks | total_length = | title10 = Time of Our Lives | writer10 = | length10 = 3:05 | title11 = The Other Side of Paradise | writer11 = | length11 = 3:12 |}}

== Personnel ==

=== Band members === * Lance King – lead vocals * Pete Southern – guitar * Bill Yates – guitar * Tony Ritchie – bass guitar * Lionel Hicks – drums

=== Additional musicians === * Leon Lawson – keyboards

=== Production and recording === * Lionel Hicks – producer, engineer, mixer * Lance King – mixer * Todd Fitzgerald – mixer * Dennis Ward – mixer on tracks 10 and 11 * Will Putnam and Lance King – art design

== References == {{reflist}}

== External links == *[https://archive.today/20120721234737/http://www.balance-of-power.com/discography/perfectbalance.htm Perfect Balance] on Balance of Power's official website *[https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00005MJ4Q Perfect Balance] on Amazon *[http://www.allmusic.com/album/perfect-balance-r553899 Perfect Balance] on AllMusic

Category:2001 albums Category:Balance of Power (band) albums