Cast in steel

*Cast in steel*
Cast in steel
Studio a-ha album
Date of issue	September 4, 2015
Recorded by	2014 - 2015
Genres	synth pop ; new wave , pop rock
Duration	47:01
Producers	Magne Furuholmen , Morten Harket , Peter Quint, Eric Lungren, John O'Mahoney, Steve Osbourne , Alan Tanya , Paul Victor Savoy
Label	Universal / Polydor
Timeline a-ha
Cast in Steel Singles
	"Under the Makeup"; Released: July 3, 2015; "The Wake"; Released: August 19, 2015; "Forest Fire"; Released: September 3, 2015; "Cast in Steel"; Released: February 12, 2016; "Objects in the Mirror"; Released: February 12, 2016;

Cast in Steel (translated from English - “Cast in Steel”) is the tenth studio album of the Norwegian musical group a-ha , released in 2015 . The band’s first album after the second reunion.

Content

About the album

The album was released on September 4, 2015, published by We Love Music and Polydor . It is the first release since the album Foot of the Mountain (2009), which took place thanks to the second reunion of the group in the same 2015 ^[1] .

Cast in Steel is the first a-ha album on the cover of which shows the original logo of the band from the time of Memorial Beach 1993, and the first album, which was produced by Alan Tarney , who worked on Stay on These Roads (1988) ^[2] .

Background and Record

Releasing their previous 9th studio album, Foot of the Mountain , a-ha announced they were retiring. However, in 2015, the group announced a reunion for a 2-year period for the release of Cast in Steel and the subsequent world tour in support of the album. After the release of Cast in Steel , A-ha almost immediately gave a performance in Rock in Rio, to the band's 30th anniversary.

Initially, Paul Voktor-Savoy and Morten Harket began working on the album without Magne Furuholmen . Voktor Savoy explained the recording process: “We started small with Morten, gathered in my studio, and I played him some of my new songs. Then he recorded his voice on songs that he liked, the rest we did not use. This continued until we increased the number from 10 songs to 20 ” ^[3] . Furuhholm said that joining the group was not his decision: “The two other participants wanted to do this, and I had to decide: should I be discouraged? Let them do it without me. Or to deceive yourself, with your statements, as if this is the end? ^[4] .

Commercial Success

Cast in Steel finished eighth in the UK Albums Chart, selling 7,828 copies in its first week. This is the sixth album A-ha entered the top 10 in the UK charts. Also, the album reached fourth place in the German Albums Chart and took 99th place in the best album sales of 2015 .

List of Songs

No.	Title	The words	Music	Producer (s)	Duration
one.	"Cast in Steel"	Paul Victor Savoy	Voktor Savoy	Savoy, Eric Lungren, Peter Quint , Morten Harket	3:50
2.	"Under the Makeup"	Voktor Savoy	Voktor Savoy	Victor Savoy, Lungren, Quint , Harket	3:25
3.	"The Wake"	Harket, Ole Sverre Olsen	Harket, Quint	Harket, Quint	3:45
four.	"Forest Fire"	Magne Furuholmen	Furuholmen, Harket, Martin Terefe , Quint	Steve Osbourne , Furuholmen, Lungren, Quint , Harket	3:54
five.	"Objects in the Mirror"	Furuholmen	Furuholmen	Osborne, Furuholmen, Lungren, Quint , Harket	4:14
6.	" Door Ajar "	Voktor Savoy	Voktor Savoy	Victor Savoy, Alan Tarney , John O'Mahoney	3:46
7.	"Living at the End of the World"	Harket, Olsen	Harket, Quint	Harket, Quint	4:06
eight.	"Mythomania"	Furuholmen	Furuholmen	Furuholmen, Lungren, Quint , Harket	3:49 am
9.	"She's Humming a Tune"	Voktor Savoy	Voktor Savoy	Victor Savoy, Lungren, O'Mahoney	4:02
ten.	Shadow Endeavors	Voktor Savoy	Voktor Savoy	Victor Savoy, Tarney, O'Mahoney	4:21
eleven.	"Giving Up the Ghost"	Furuholmen	Furuholmen	Furuholmen, Lungren, Quint , Harket	4:15
12.	Goodbye Thompson	Voktor Savoy	Voktor Savoy	Victor Savoy, Tarney, O'Mahoney	3:34

Notes

↑ A-ha gjenforenes og lager nye låter (Nor.) . Dagbladet (March 21, 2015). Date of treatment March 21, 2016.
↑ a-ha / Cast in Steel: Track by track | superdeluxeedition (neopr.) . www.superdeluxeedition.com . Date of appeal October 15, 2015.
↑ a-ha med nytt album og stor turné til høsten (neopr.) . Dagbladet.no .
↑ The highs and lows of being a-ha (neopr.) . Financial Times (March 18, 2016). Date of treatment March 21, 2016.

[1] A-ha gjenforenes og lager nye låter (Nor.) . Dagbladet (March 21, 2015). Date of treatment March 21, 2016.

[2] -ha / Cast in Steel: Track by track | superdeluxeedition (neopr.) . www.superdeluxeedition.com . Date of appeal October 15, 2015.

[3] -ha med nytt album og stor turné til høsten (neopr.) . Dagbladet.no .

[4] The highs and lows of being a-ha (neopr.) . Financial Times (March 18, 2016). Date of treatment March 21, 2016.