# Perfect Balance

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{{Infobox album
| name       = Perfect Balance
| type       = studio
| artist     = [Balance of Power](/source/Balance_of_Power_(band))
| cover      = Balance4.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = 2001
| recorded   = POD Studios & Summit Studios, 2000
| venue      =
| studio     =
| genre      = [Power metal](/source/Power_metal), [progressive metal](/source/progressive_metal), [Christian metal](/source/Christian_metal)
| length     = 63:26
| label      = Avalon Marquee <small>(Japan)</small><br />[Massacre Records](/source/Massacre_Records) <small>(Europe)</small><br />[Nightmare Records](/source/Nightmare_Records) <small>(US)</small>
| producer   = Lionel Hicks
| prev_title = [Ten More Tales of Grand Illusion](/source/Ten_More_Tales_of_Grand_Illusion)
| prev_year  = 1999
| next_title = [Heathen Machine](/source/Heathen_Machine)
| next_year  = 2003
}}
{{Music ratings
| rev2 = ''[Kerrang!](/source/Kerrang!)''
| rev2score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Shiels |first=Liam |date=July 28, 2001 |title=Albums |magazine=[Kerrang!](/source/Kerrang!) |location=UK |publisher=[EMAP](/source/EMAP) |issue=863 |page=49}}</ref>
}}
'''''Perfect Balance''''' is the fourth album by English heavy metal band [Balance of Power](/source/Balance_of_Power_(band)). It was released in 2001 and is the last album to feature lead singer [Lance King](/source/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](/source/London%2C_England). Mixing was handled by Todd Fitzgerald, [Lance King](/source/Lance_King) and Lionel Hicks at Oarfin Studios, in [Minneapolis](/source/Minneapolis), US. The tracks "Time of Our Lives" and "The Other Side of Paradise" were the only ones mixed by [Dennis Ward](/source/Dennis_Ward_(musician)), 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](/source/Lance_King) at [Nightmare Records](/source/Nightmare_Records), US.</ref>

Art design was done by Will Putnam and Lance King.

== Track listing ==
All songs written by [Lance King](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Dennis_Ward_(musician)) – 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](/source/Amazon.com)
*[http://www.allmusic.com/album/perfect-balance-r553899 Perfect Balance] on [AllMusic](/source/AllMusic)

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

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