Soldier's Gun is the first studio album

Studio album

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 by the Norwegian

Norway

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 hard rock

Hard rock

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 band Stage Dolls

Stage Dolls

Stage Dolls is a Norwegian hard rock/glam metal band based in Trondheim, Norway. In 1982, Erlend Antonsen and Terje Storli played at local clubs in and around Trondheim. In need of a guitarist they called on Torstein Flakne, who by then had finished playing in The Kids...

. The album was recorded in the fall of 1984 at Nidaros Studios in Trondheim

Trondheim

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, Norway

Norway

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 with the same producer, Bjørn Nessjø, and engineer, Rune Nordahl, as fellow Trondheim hard-rockers TNT

TNT (band)

TNT is a Norwegian hard rock/glam metal band from Trondheim, formed in 1982. The band has released twelve studio albums, three EPs and two live albums while going through numerous line-up changes since its formation...

. The album was released in the early winter of 1985 after a successful nationwide tour in Norway supporting the same TNT. Soldier's Gun barely made it onto the Norwegian album chart (VG)

Verdens Gang

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for one week as number 20. The album sold in excess of 20,000 copies in Norway.

Track listing

1. "Queen of Hearts" – 3:09 (Stage Dolls)
2. "Soldier's Gun" – 4:04 (Stage Dolls)
3. "Ten Tons" – 3:34 (Stage Dolls)
4. "While the bombs are falling" – 2:30 (Stage Dolls)
5. "Tonight" – 4:03 (Stage Dolls)
6. "Left Foot Boogie" – 3:27 (Stage Dolls)
7. "Way of the World" – 2:32 (Stage Dolls)
8. "Red Rose" – 2:21 (Stage Dolls)
9. "Photograph" – 4:40 (Stage Dolls)
10. "Shout" – 3:41 (Stage Dolls)