Balance is the tenth studio album by American hard rock band Van Halen. It was released on January 24, 1995, by Warner Bros. Records. Balance reached number 1 on the U.S. Billboard 200 in February 1995. It reached Triple Platinum status on May 12, 2004, by selling more than three million copies.
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Balance is the tenth studio album by American hard rock band Van Halen. It was released on January 24, 1995, by Warner Bros. Records. Balance reached number 1 on the U.S. Billboard 200 in February 1995 and reached Triple Platinum status on May 12, 2004, by selling more than three million copies. The album is the last of the band’s four studio releases to feature Sammy Hagar as the lead singer. The band worked eight-hour days for three months recording the album. The original title of the album was The Seventh Seal, to which photographer Glen Wexler created some concepts, including one with an androgynous four-year-old boy. Eventually they picked Balance, which Alex explained was about the turmoil and changes surrounding van Halen, including the recent death of long-time manager Ed Leffler.
The cover had a number of ironies: the impossibility of conjoined twins playing on the seesaw; the ‘calm’ twin being the aggressive one; the one pulling the hair of his sibling to create the appearance of an aggressive child; and having no one else to play with in a desolate playground in a post-apocalyptic setting, in which the only object in sight is the sight of the ‘V’ in ‘V-shaped’ shape. The song ‘The Seventh Seal’ was nominated for a Grammy for Best Hard Rock Performance. It features mystical overtones that came, in part, from Eddie’s newfound sobriety.
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