Seventh Wonder

1. “Wiseman”
2. “Alley Cat”
3. “The Angelmaker”
4. “King of Whitewater”
5. “Long Way Home”
6. “Move on Through”
7. “The Great Escape
8. “In The Blink Of An Eye (2011 Re-recorded Version from Become (album))”

The Great Escape is the fourth album by Swedish progressive metal band Seventh Wonder. It was recorded over the Spring and Summer of 2010, and was released on December 3, 2010. It is the first album by the band to feature a track longer than 10 minutes. It is also the last album recorded with Johnny Sandin on drums, as he left the band due to personal reasons after the recording and subsequent shows. “Alley Cat” is the first Seventh Wonder song to have an accompanying music video from the band.

The title track ‘The Great Escape’ is an epic song based on the poems ‘Aniara’ by Swedish Nobel laureate Harry Martinson. It deals with the tragedy of a spaceship which, originally bound for Mars with a cargo of surviving colonists from a ravaged and destroyed Earth, is ejected from the solar system and becomes entangled in an existential struggle. The first track ‘Wiseman’ doubles loosely as a prequel to the events of ‘The Great Escape’.

1. “A New Beginning”
2. “There and Back”
3. “Welcome to Mercy Falls”
4. “Unbreakable”
5. “Tears for a Father”
6. “A Day Away”
7. “Tears for a Son”
8. “Paradise”
9. “Fall in Line”
10. “Break the Silence”
11. “Hide and Seek”
12. “Destiny Calls”
13. “One Last Goodbye”
14. “Back in Time”
15. “The Black Parade”

Mercy Falls is the third studio album by Swedish progressive metal band Seventh Wonder. It is a concept album that tells the story of a victim of a car crash who, upon awakening from a coma, finds himself in the mysterious town of Mercy Falls, a fictional world he has dreamed up in his comatose state.

Plot and story

A man has a mysterious car accident, and falls into a coma. He is taken to a hospital by paramedics. The man, in his comatose state, dreams he is in a place called Mercy Falls. A few years after the accident, his wife comes to visit him (as she apparently has been doing constantly ever since that night). She comments that the doctors are still trying to wake him. She leaves his side, but turns the radio on to comfort her husband.

Within the man’s mind, he dreams of a woman who lives in Mercy Falls, who constantly stays locked inside “the tall house”, an empty mansion that the children fear to approach. He begins to realize that she is a reflection of himself, because he is trapped inside his own empty mind and completely isolated from those he loves. He believes that if he can meet this woman and help her to leave her mansion, he will be able to leave Mercy Falls himself and finally see his family again.

Back in the physical world, the doctor’s speak to the man’s wife and explain that they will harvest bone marrow from his son in desperate attempts to heal the man in the coma. This, apparently, is their last hope to try to awaken him.

Back in Mercy Falls, the townspeople prepare for a terrible storm that could destroy their village. (The storm, of course, is the doctors trying to cure the man using the bone marrow, therefore trying to destroy Mercy Falls.) The townspeople unite and build up defenses against the storm, and their town is saved. Therefore, the medical procedure has failed.

The man’s wife and the doctors give up hope. At the album’s emotional climax, “One Last Goodbye”, they turn off his life-support machines and assure him that his memory will live on. He passes from Mercy Falls into the afterlife, and as he is dying, he has a flashback which reveals a conversation he had with his wife several years ago in the car. She told him that her son was, in truth, not his. Shocked so suddenly, he crashes the car, bringing the timeline back to the beginning of the album. This explains why the bone marrow transplant from his son was unsuccessful.

The son struggles with the absence of his father and his mother. The mother appears to be struggling with the guilt and turns to alcohol. The son refers to it as the “muddy water”. Not only did she cause the accident in the first place by telling the man that the son he thought he had was not his, but the attempts to bring him out of his coma also failed because of her infidelities. She lets her son go through the pain of a bone marrow transplant even though she knew that it wouldn’t work. She continues to keep her infidelity a secret.

The final song, “The Black Parade”, tells of the man’s experience passing into the afterlife.

1. “Star of David” 
2. “Taint the Sky”
3. “Waiting in the Wings”
4. “Banish the Wicked”
5. “Not an Angel”
6. “Devil’s Inc.” 
7. “Walking Tall” 
8. “The Edge of My Blade” 
9. “Pieces” 

Waiting in the Wings is the second studio album by Swedish progressive metal band Seventh Wonder.

1. “Day By Day”
2. “Like Him”
3. “The Damned”
4. “Temple in the Storm” 
5. “Blinding My Eyes”
6. “The Secret” 
7. “What I’ve Become” 
8. “In the Blink of an Eye” 
9. “Day By Day” (Acoustic) 

Become is the first studio album by Swedish progressive metal band Seventh Wonder. It consists of nine tracks; however, the ninth track is unlisted and untitled.