Sound the Alarm is the eleventh studio album

Album

An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 by The Dawn

The Dawn (band)

The Dawn is a Filipino rock band which first achieved commercial success during the late 1980s in the Philippines. The band broke up in 1995 with lead vocalist Jett Pangan forming another band, the Jett Pangan Group. The Dawn reunited in late 1999...

, released in 2009. It is the band's first album to feature new guitarist Kenneth Ilagan

Kenneth Ilagan

Kenneth Ilagan is the guitarist for the Filipino rock band The Dawn. Before assuming guitar duties for The Dawn, Ilagan also played guitar for Violent Playground, True Faith and Rivermaya .-References:...

. Five of the album's tracks were produced by Raimund Marasigan

Raimund Marasigan

Raimund Emmanuel Parcon Marasigan, or simply known as Raimund Marasigan, is a ballad musician and record producer in the Philippines. Oftentimes, his first name is misspelled as Raymond, Raymund, Raimond and other variants. The breadth of his projects has made him one of the most well-respected...

, the other five by Ariz Guinto. Marasigan also helped with musical arrangement, especially with the six songs composed by bass player Buddy Zabala

Buddy Zabala

Hector "Buddy" Avanceña Zabala is the bassist of Filipino new wave band The Dawn, indie band Cambio, and widely known as the bassist of the now disbanded alternative rock band, The Eraserheads.-Eraserheads bassist :...

. Pro Tools

Pro Tools

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 was utilized in making half of the songs in the album, a new method for the band.

Track listing

1. "Fire Down Below" (Pangan) - 4:19
2. "Lumulubog (Sinking)" (Leonor, Pangan, Zabala) - 3:23
3. "As I Do" (Pangan, Rodriguez) - 4:17
4. "Hatak (Pull)" (Leonor, Pangan) - 3:54
5. "Avenida" (Avenue) (Pangan, Zabala) - 3:44
6. "Pedestal (Pedestal)" (Leonor, Pangan) - 4:24
7. "Sound the Alarm" (Pangan, Zabala) - 3:46
8. "Where Have You Been?" (Pangan, Zabala) - 4:52
9. "Tuloy-tuloy (Continuous)" (Pangan, Zabala) - 4:07
10. "Tibay ng Pinas (Strength of the Philippines)" (Pangan, Zabala) - 3:54

Personnel

• Jett Pangan
  Jett Pangan
  Jett Pangan is a Filipino singer and guitarist best known for fronting the Filipino rock bands The Dawn, formed in 1985 and still active to date, and the defunct Jett Pangan Group....
  
   - vocals
• JB Leonor
  JB Leonor
  JB Leonor, born Domingo Leonor III, is the drummer for the Filipino rock band The Dawn. Leonor formed the band along with guitarist Teddy Diaz in 1986.-References:...
  
   - drums, keyboards
• Kenneth Ilagan
  Kenneth Ilagan
  Kenneth Ilagan is the guitarist for the Filipino rock band The Dawn. Before assuming guitar duties for The Dawn, Ilagan also played guitar for Violent Playground, True Faith and Rivermaya .-References:...
  
   - guitars
• Buddy Zabala
  Buddy Zabala
  Hector "Buddy" Avanceña Zabala is the bassist of Filipino new wave band The Dawn, indie band Cambio, and widely known as the bassist of the now disbanded alternative rock band, The Eraserheads.-Eraserheads bassist :...
  
  - bass guitar