Track listing

1. "The Stranger" – 7:20
2. "Barricade" – 5:22
3. "Give in This Time" – 5:24
4. "Love Became the Law" – 4:41
5. "The Heat" – 5:41
6. "Silent Rain" – 6:27
7. "Timeless" – 4:54
8. "Black Hearted Woman" – 5:35
9. "Thunder in Heaven" – 6:58
10. "Valentine" – 6:14

Personnel

• Gary Hughes
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• Vinny Burns
  Vinny Burns
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• John Halliwell – guitars
• Steve McKenna – bass guitar
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• Greg Morgan – drums
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• Don Airey
  Don Airey
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• Gavin Fernie – the voice of Meridian
• Georgina Rudden – the voice at Cryotech and Lex's computer

Production

• Mixing – Audu Obaje
• Engineers – Audu Obaje, Neil Amison, Kirk Podmore, Vinny Burns and Gary Hughes

Concepts

• The concept of the album is a fictional futuristic story about a computer programmer and his tragic love affair.

Trivia

• The album originally meant to feature an eleventh song named "Dawn Star". However, the record company insisted on removing the track from the final release. The track saw the light of day on 02/08/10 when it was featured in the setlist of the Rocktopia Podcast, AhORa Rock.
• The cover of the album has been designed by Luis Royo
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External links

• Heavy Harmonies page
• melodicrock.com review
• Frontiers Records page