The New Territory is the tenth studio album by the Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 hard rock

Hard rock

Hard rock is a loosely defined genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock, blues rock and psychedelic rock...

 band 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...

, and was released on 30 June 2007.

Track listing

1. "A Constitution" (Ronni Le Tekrø, Tony Mills, Diesel Dahl) - 4:16
2. "Substitute" (Tekrø, Mills, Dahl) - 2:42
3. "Are You Blind?"(Gundersen, Mills, Tekro) - 3:50
4. "Golden Opportunity" (Gundersen, Mills, Tekrø) - 3:29
5. "Something Special" - 3:22
6. "Now We're Talkin'" (Tekrø) - 3:36
7. "Wild Life" (Mills, Tekrø, Dahl) - 3:07
8. "Fountain of Love" (Tekrø) - 4:25
9. "June" (Mills, Tekrø) - 3:28
10. "Can't Go On Without" (Mills, Gundersen, Tekrø) - 3:15
11. "2 Seconds Away"(Dahl, Mills, Tekro) - 3:19
12. "Milestone River" (Tekro, Caputo, Hvalby, Johannsen) - 4:51
13. "Let's Party Mills" (closing track) - 2:11

Bonus tracks on Japanese edition

1. "Harley-Davidson" [new version] (Ingebrigtsen, Tekrø, Alfheim, Mills)
2. "Don't Come Too Near" (Tekrø)

The riff on "Are You Blind?" is an old Le Tekrø riff dating at least back to the Firefly

Firefly (TNT album)

The song "Soldier of the Light" was never meant for the album. It was a demo from the Realized Fantasies sessions and was put on Firefly because the Japanese record company liked it so much....

days.

Bonus song "Don't Come Too Near" sparked fanbase controversy as to what exactly the lyrics meant.

This is the first TNT album since Tell No Tales

Tell No Tales

- Band :*Tony Harnell – vocals*Ronni Le Tekrø – guitars, guitar synthesizer*Morty Black – bass guitar, pedal synthesizer*Morten "Diesel" Dahl – drums, percussion-Additional personnel:*Håkon Iversen – background vocals*Bård Svendsen – keyboards and programming...

in which Diesel Dahl has songwriting contributions.

Reception

While getting mixed reviews online, fan reception was generally bad. Melodic Rock gave the album a very poor review. Metal Express Radio gave it a positive review. However, many fans think of it as a disappointment. Others however like it, citing it for its originality, and Norwegian Monster Magazine called it "The most pleasant surprise this year". It can widely be compared to the controversial 1997 album Firefly

Firefly (TNT album)

The song "Soldier of the Light" was never meant for the album. It was a demo from the Realized Fantasies sessions and was put on Firefly because the Japanese record company liked it so much....

which also caused a small uproar amongst long time fans and disappointment for going too far from the original TNT sound.

Band

• Tony Mills
  Tony Mills (musician)
  Tony Mills is an English musician and the vocalist in the Norwegian hard rock band TNT.Hailing from Birmingham, when he was 14 years old, he sang in his first band, the punk band The Rip-Offs, before joining fellow Birmingham punk band Cracked Actors as bass guitarist...
  
   – vocals, harmony vocals
• Ronni Le Tekrø – guitars, baritone backing vocals
• Victor Borge
  Victor Borge (bassist)
  Victor Cito Borge is the bassist in the Norwegian hard rock band TNT and the black metal band Tulus. He joined TNT in 2005, replacing Sid Ringsby.Borge started playing the bass when he was 8 years old...
  
   – bass guitar, backing vocals
• Morten "Diesel" Dahl
  Morten Dahl
  Morten "Diesel" Dahl is the drummer and co-founder of the Norwegian hard rock band TNT.He started playing the drums at the age of 15, and played in bands like Burn, Edge and Hotlips before he formed TNT together with vocalist Dag Ingebrigtsen in 1982...
  
   – drums

Additional personnel

• Dag Stokke
  Dag Stokke
  Dag Stokke was a Norwegian keyboardist, church organist and mastering engineer best known for his work with the Norwegian rock bands TNT and Vagabond...
  
  – keyboards, backing vocals, mixing
• Tony Caputo – backing guitar on track 12
• Jon Johannsen – keyboards on track 12