DOKKEN – DREAM WARRIORS – METAL REWIND

Happy Friday Metalheads! Hope you all had a great week. Continuing on with our Halloween themed month, today we take a trip back to 1987 for the track “Dream Warriors from the Nightmare on Elm Street Part 3: Dream Warriors movie which also appeared on the band’s fouth album “Back For The Attack.”

The video for the song intertwined clips from the movie along with the band performing. Freddy Krueger, portrayed by actor Robert Englund and Patricia Arquette, who plays Kristin in the movie, also make appearances in the video tying the video storyline together.

The song reached #22 on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and was a staple on MTV’s Headbanger’s Ball and the “Back For The Attack” is the band’s best-selling album to date.

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DOKKEN – ALONE AGAIN

Happy Wednesday Metalheads! Today we’re continuing our trip back in time to the metal power ballads that either we loved or hated. Let me know what some of yours are and I’ll feature them in a future post.

L to R: Jeff Pilson, Don Dokken, George Lynch and Mick Brown

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For today’s power ballad, we take a trip back to 1985 to a track off Dokken’s second album “Tooth and Nail” called “Alone Again.” The song chronicles the hurt and depression after a romantic breakup. When asked about the song, singer Don Dokken said that he had written the song when he was 25 but had put it in a box and forgot about it. When the band were working on the “Tooth and Nail” album, their record label had mentioned that power ballads were the next big thing at that time, so Don brought the tape to the studio and along with bassist Jeff Pilson “Alone Again” was born.

The song became the band’s biggest hit and the video was played in heavy rotation on MTV. Shot mostly in black and white, the video shows the band in concert and cuts to Don in his hotel room alone after their shows dealing with the pain of the breakup. See the classic video below: