Raise Your Fist

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Raise Your Fist
Doro-raise-your-fist.jpg
Cover art by Geoffrey Gillespie
Studio album by Doro
Released 19 October 2012
6 November 2012 (USA)
Recorded Eardrum Studios, Hamburg,
Studio 102, Bochum,
Mastersound Studios, Steinheim, Germany
Intermedia Post, New Jersey, USA
Genre Heavy metal
Length 52:01
Label Nuclear Blast
Producer Andreas Bruhn, Doro Pesch, Torsten Sickert
Doro chronology
Raise Your Fist in the Air
(2012)Raise Your Fist in the Air2012
Raise Your Fist
(2012)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 3.5/5 stars[1]
Blistering 7/10 stars[2]
Metal Forces (6/10)[3]
Revolver 3.5/5 stars[4]

Raise Your Fist is the twelfth studio album by the German female hard rock singer Doro, released on 19 October 2012 and 6 November 2012 in USA through Nuclear Blast Records.[5][6] The song "Hero" is dedicated to the late Ronnie James Dio.[7]

On 5 May 2014, Nuclear Blast issued a special edition of the album to celebrate the 30th anniversarty of Doro's first live show, which included a second CD titled Powerful Passionate Favorites containing remixes, covers and a demo. It was published in coincidence with the German singer's two special celebrative concerts held at CCD Stadthalle of her hometown Düsseldorf.[8]

Track listing

No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "Raise Your Fist in the Air"   Andreas Bruhn, Doro Pesch 3:47
2. "Coldhearted Lover"   Wolfgang Michels, Pesch 3:35
3. "Rock Till Death"   Filip Sembera, Lucie Roubickova, Pesch 3:02
4. "It Still Hurts"   Bruhn, Pesch 4:09
5. "Take No Prisoner"   Dennis Krüger, Pesch 3:08
6. "Grab the Bull (Last Man Standing)"   Bruhn, Pesch 4:57
7. "Engel"   Bruhn, Pesch 5:13
8. "Freiheit (Human Rights)"   Bruhn, Pesch 3:44
9. "Little Headbanger (Nackenbrecher)"   Bruhn, Pesch 3:14
10. "Revenge"   Bas Maas, Pesch 4:48
11. "Free My Heart"   Bruhn, Pesch 5:09
12. "Victory"   Kendal Stubbs, Roderick Colebrook 3:11
13. "Hero"   Pesch, Joey Balin 4:04

Personnel

Band members
Additional musicians
  • Lemmy - vocals on track 4
  • Harrison Young - keyboards
  • Torsten Sickert - guitars, bass and drums on track 3, producer and engineer on track 3, keyboards
  • Klaus Vanscheidt - guitars and backing vocals on track 3
  • Filip Sembera - guitar on track 3
  • Lucie Roubickova - backing vocals on tracks 3 and 6
  • Gus G - guitar solo on track 6
  • Thorsten Bauer - lead and rhythm guitars, bass, backing vocals, engineer on track 6
  • Felix Bron - drums
  • Mike Goldberg - drums, engineer on tracks 12, 13
  • Alexander Krull - backing vocals, engineer, mixing and mastering on track 6
  • Uwe Fichtner - backing vocals
  • Kendal Stubbs - programming on track 12
Production
  • Andreas Bruhn - producer, engineer and mixing on tracks 2, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11, 14, engineer on tracks 1, 6 and 10, mixing on track 15
  • Jochen Kux - engineer and mixing on tracks 2, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11, 14, engineer on tracks 1 and 6, mixing on track 15
  • Jacob Hansen - mixing on tracks 1, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10
  • Afshin Tahmasebi - engineer on tracks 10 and 15
  • Rudy Kronenberger - mixing on track 13
  • Jens Dreesen - mastering

References

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