Recreation Day

For the holiday in northern Tasmania, see Recreation Day holiday.

2003 studio album by Evergrey

Recreation Day

Studio album by

Evergrey

Released| 11 March 2003
Studio| Los Angered Studios (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Genre|

* Power metal
* progressive metal

Length| 1:00:10
Label| Inside Out Music
Producer|

* Henrik Danhage
* Tom S. Englund

Evergrey chronology
| In Search of Truth
(2001)  | Recreation Day
(2003)  | The Inner Circle
(2004)

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Professional ratingsReview scores

Source| Rating
AllMusic| [1]
Blabbermouth.net| 7.5/10[2]
Metalitalia| 9/10[3]
Metal Storm| 8.5/10[4]
RockHard| 8.5/10[5]
Sputnikmusic| 4.5/5[6]

Recreation Day is the fourth studio album by Swedish progressive metal band Evergrey. It was released on 11 March 2003 through Inside Out Music and re-released in 2018 via AFM Records. Recording sessions took place at Los Angered Recordings in Gothenburg. Production was handled by members Tom S. Englund and Henrik Danhage. The album's lyrics deal mainly with personal reformation. It is the first album with longtime keyboardist Rikard Zander, and the last to feature original drummer Patrick Carlsson.

A music video was produced for the song "Blinded", which saw substantial airplay on Headbangers Ball in late 2003. It would soon be followed by the power ballad "I'm Sorry".

## Track listing

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No.| Title| Lyrics| Music| Length

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1.| "The Great Deceiver"|

* Tom S. Englund
* Henrik Danhage

* Tom S. Englund
* Henrik Danhage

| 4:18
2.| "End of your Days"| Englund|

* Englund
* Danhage

| 4:38
3.| "As I Lie Here Bleeding"| Englund|

* Englund
* Danhage

| 3:51
4.| "Recreation Day"| Englund|

* Englund
* Danhage
* Rikard Zander

| 5:21
5.| "Visions"| Englund|

* Englund
* Danhage

| 6:01
6.| "I'm Sorry"| Dilbahar Demirbağ| Dilbahar Demirbağ| 3:18
7.| "Blinded"| Englund|

* Englund
* Danhage

| 4:34
8.| "Fragments"|

* Englund
* Michael Håkansson

* Englund
* Danhage

| 5:37
9.| "Madness Caught Another Victim"| Englund|

* Englund
* Danhage

| 2:59
10.| "Your Darkest Hour"| Englund|

* Englund
* Danhage
* Zander

| 6:14
11.| "Unforgivable"| Englund|

* Englund
* Danhage

| 4:28

Limited editionNo.| Title| Length

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12.| "Trilogy of the Damned" (The track is a medley of "As Light Is Our Darkness" (from The Dark Discovery), "Words Mean Nothing" (from Solitude, Dominance, Tragedy), and "The Shocking Truth" (also from Solitude, Dominance, Tragedy), performed with vocals backed by electric piano plus an expressive guitar solo by Henrik Danhage.)| 9:00

## Personnel

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* Tom S. Englund – vocals, guitar, arranger, producer
* Henrik Danhage – guitar, arranger, producer
* Michael Håkansson – bass, arranger
* Patrick Carlsson – drums, percussion, arranger
* Rikard Zander – keyboards
* Carina Kjellberg – female vocals
* The Mercury Choir (courtesy of the Swedish Catholic Church) – choir
* Fredrik Nordström – mixing
* Patrik Jerksten – mixing
* Anders Allhage – engineering
* Kristian "Rizza" Isaksson – engineering
* Göran Finnberg – mastering
* Mattias Norén – artwork, design
* Rex Zachary – photography
* Lars Karlsson – photography

## Charts

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Chart (2003)  | Peak
position

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French Albums (SNEP)[7] | 148
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[8] | 18

## References

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1. ^ Rivadavia, Eduardo. "Recreation Day - Evergrey | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
2. ^ Daley, Tony (10 March 2003). "Recreation Day - EVERGREY". Blabbermouth.net. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
3. ^ Plata, Riccardo (2019). "EVERGREY - Recreation Day". metalitalia.com (in Italian). Retrieved 8 November 2020.
4. ^ "Evergrey - Recreation Day review - Metal Storm". Metal Storm. 29 January 2004. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
5. ^ "EVERGREY - Recreation Day". RockHard (in German). Retrieved 8 November 2020.
6. ^ "Evergrey - Recreation Day (album review ) | Sputnikmusic". Sputnikmusic. 5 March 2012. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
7. ^ "Lescharts.com – Evergrey – Recreation Day". Hung Medien. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
8. ^ "Swedishcharts.com – Evergrey – Recreation Day". Hung Medien. Retrieved 8 November 2020.

## External links

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* Recreation Day at Discogs (list of releases)

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Evergrey

* Tom S. Englund
* Rikard Zander
* Johan Niemann
* Henrik Danhage
* Jonas Ekdahl

* Hannes Van Dahl
* Jari Kainulainen

Studio albums|

* Solitude, Dominance, Tragedy (1999)
* In Search of Truth (2001)
* Recreation Day (2003)
* The Inner Circle (2004)

Live albums|

* A Night to Remember (2005)

Related|

* Discography

Authority control databases |

* MusicBrainz release group

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