Broken Bones (album)

Broken Bones
Studio album by Dokken
Released	September 21–25, 2012
Recorded	2012
Studio	Atrium Studios, Calabasas and Total Access Recording, Redondo Beach, California
Genre	Hard rock, glam metal
Length	45:08
Label	Frontiers King (Japan)
Producer	Don Dokken
Dokken chronology
Greatest Hits (2010) Broken Bones (2012) Return To The East Live (2016) (2018)

Broken Bones is the eleventh studio album by the American heavy metal band Dokken. It was released in Europe on 21 September 2012 and in the US on September 25, 2012.^[1] It features session drummer Jimmy DeGrasso as Mick Brown couldn't record due to scheduling conflicts, which makes Broken Bones the first Dokken album without him and also their only album to feature bassist Sean McNabb.

Aside from the standard edition CD, a special edition was released in Europe with a thirty-minute DVD feature of the making of the album.^[2]

Broken Bones sold around 2,600 copies in the United States in its first week of release and landed at position No. 173 on the Billboard 200 chart.^[3]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Don Dokken and Jon Levin, except where indicated

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Empire"		3:33
2.	"Broken Bones"		4:54
3.	"Best of Me"		4:18
4.	"Blind"		3:23
5.	"Waterfall"	Dokken	2:48
6.	"The Victim of the Crime"	Dokken	4:30
7.	"Burning Tears"		4:41
8.	"Today" (Jefferson Airplane cover)	Marty Balin, Paul Kantner	4:20
9.	"For the Last Time"		3:58
10.	"Fade Away"		3:46
11.	"Tonight"		4:57

Japanese edition bonus track

No.	Title	Length
12.	"Can’t Fight This Love"	5:11

Personnel

Dokken

• Don Dokken - lead vocals, percussion
• Jon Levin - guitars
• Sean McNabb - bass
• Jimmy DeGrasso - drums

Additional musicians

• Mark Boals - backing vocals

Production

• Don Dokken - production
• Darian Rundall - engineering
• Bob St. John - mixing
• Tim Kelly, Mike Sutherland - additional engineering
• Wyn Davis - drum engineering, engineer and mixing on "Today"
• Chris Baseford - drum engineering
• Maor Appelbaum - mastering

Charts

Chart (2012)	Peak position
US Billboard 200[4]	173
US Hard Rock Albums[5]	12

External links

• Official Website

References

1. "DOKKEN: 'Broken Bones' Album Details Revealed". Blabbermouth.net. 28 August 2012. Retrieved 28 August 2012.
2. "'Frontiers Special Edition Listing'".
3. "DOKKEN: 'Broken Bones' First-Week Sales Revealed". Blabbermouth.net. 4 October 2012. Retrieved 3 February 2013.
4. "Dokken - Chart history - Billboard". Billboard. Archived from the original on 9 May 2018. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
5. "Dokken - Chart history - Billboard". Billboard. Archived from the original on 11 October 2014. Retrieved 15 April 2021.