Stranger in Us All

Stranger in Us All
Studio album by Rainbow
Released	21 August 1995
Recorded	1995
Studio	Long View Farm (Brookfield, Massachusetts) Cove City Sound (Long Island, New York) Sound on Sound; Unique; Soundtrack (New York City)
Genre	Hard rock
Length	51:44
Label	RCA
Producer	Pat Regan Ritchie Blackmore
Rainbow chronology
Bent Out of Shape (1983) Stranger in Us All (1995)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal	6/10[2]

Stranger in Us All is the eighth studio album by the British hard rock band Rainbow, released on 21 August 1995 by RCA Records. This was the band's first studio album in twelve years, and originally intended to be a solo album by Blackmore, but due to pressures from BMG, it was billed as Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow, which saw him putting together a new line-up featuring himself and four then-unknown musicians: vocalist Doogie White, bassist Greg Smith, keyboardist Paul Morris and drummer John O'Reilly.

As Blackmore decided to pursue different musical styles (forming Blackmore's Night with his companion Candice Night), Stranger in Us All was his final recording as a rock artist for two decades, until he put together a reincarnation of Rainbow in 2016 and released a series of new singles. The album takes its name from a line in the song "Black Masquerade".

Released during the post-grunge scene of the mid-1990s, Stranger in Us All failed to measure up to the critical and commercial acclaim of previous releases and was not particularly well publicized. However, it achieved modest success, particularly in Europe and Japan.