Loudness

   
Artist: Loudness

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   Metal: Heavy
   

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Discography:


   
 Rockshocks (US Version)

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 16


   
 Terror Hakuri

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 11


   
 Biosphere

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 11


   
 The Soldier's Just Came Back: Live Best

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 14


   
 The Days Of Glory: The Very Best Of

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 18


   
 Spiritual Canoe

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 13


   
 Pandemonium

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 11


   
 Engine

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 13


   
 Dragon

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 11


   
 Ghetto Machine

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 11


   
 Masters Of Loudness No. 7 1996 (CD 2)

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 14


   
 Masters Of Loudness No. 7 1996 (CD 1)

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 15


   
 Once and For All

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 10


   
 Heavy Metal Hippies

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 10


   
 Loudness

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 10


   
 Slap In The Face

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 4


   
 On The Prowl

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 11


   
 Soldier Of Fortune

   Year: 1989   
Tracks: 10


   
 Early Singles

   Year: 1989   
Tracks: 11


   
 Jealousy

   Year: 1988   
Tracks: 6


   
 Hurricane Eyes

   Year: 1987   
Tracks: 10


   
 Shadows Of War

   Year: 1986   
Tracks: 9


   
 Lightning Strikes

   Year: 1986   
Tracks: 9


   
 8186 Live (CD 2)

   Year: 1986   
Tracks: 9


   
 8186 Live (CD 1)

   Year: 1986   
Tracks: 8


   
 Thunder In The East

   Year: 1985   
Tracks: 10


   
 Disillusion

   Year: 1984   
Tracks: 10


   
 The Law Of Devil's Land

   Year: 1983   
Tracks: 9


   
 Devil Soldier

   Year: 1982   
Tracks: 8


   
 The Birthday Eve

   Year: 1981   
Tracks: 8

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By the clip they were introduced to the West by 1985's Thunder in the East record album, Japan's Loudness had arguably already strike their tip. Their premature endeavor, Disillusion, was the fourth chart-topping outlet in their fatherland, non to citation a critical rejoice among members of the European push. But when faced with a contingency design to conquer America, Loudness were step by step forced to change their sound by unsuitable producers and clueless track record company hacks, ne'er approaching close to translating their far East success into Western stardom.


Guitarist Akira Takasaki and drummer Munetaka Higuchi start played together during the mid-'70s in a mainstream rock'n'roll dance orchestra called Lazy. Unhappy with the band's instruction, the couple split and decided to follow in the footsteps of Bow Wow (the start ever Japanese heavy metallic element band), forming Loudness with singer Minoru Niihara and sea bass player Masayoshi Yamashita. Combining a authoritative metallic element coming with


Takasaki's Eddie Van Halen-inspired guitar heroics, the band immediately scored local success with their first-class honours degree trinity albums, which were song whole in Japanese. But it wasn't until the handout of their first hot record album, Live-Loud-Alive, and fourth studio exploit Disillusion that the group attracted any significant attention outside their homeland, eventually issuing an English translation of Disillusion.


Atlantic Records soon came career and the band's international career began in sincere with 1985's Thunder in the East, which sold quite well in the U.S. for its bangle value, giving the band assumed hopes about their acceptance by Western alloy audiences. Subsequent efforts, Lightning Strikes and Hurricane Eyes, were "made to ordering" records geared for the American grocery store, and saw the band tardily drifting out from their roots towards a more commercial, pop-metal effectual. All to no avail, and subsequently recording 1988's independently-released Green-eyed monster, the definitive lineup's aureole age came to an end with the lighting of Niihara and the arrival of American-born singer Mike Vescera for 1989's Soldier of Fortune. 1991's disappointing On the Prowl proverb them recourse to re-recording moire grim versions of some of their Japan-only material and would be the last to feature of speech Vescera, world Health Organization briefly joined the temperamental Yngwie J. Malmsteen's set.


Yamada Masaki, from rival Japanese alloy band EZO, was brought in for Loudness' 1992 self-titled campaign, 1994's Heavy Metal Hippies, and 1997's Ghetto Machine. The latter saw the departure of the band's long time speech rhythm subdivision beingness replaced by bassist Shibata Naoto and drummer Homma Hirotsugu. This lineup recorded iI more than albums, 1998's Dragon and 1999's Engine, later which it has been rumored that Takasaki welcomed back the original members for an as so far unconfirmed reunion.





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Amanda Peet is '2012' lead

John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor among cast

Amanda Peet has landed the female lead in Roland Emmerich's epic disaster project "2012."


Peet is joining a strong ensemble cast led by John Cusack that includes Chiwetel Ejiofor, Thandie Newton, Danny Glover and Oliver Platt.


"2012" revolves around a global cataclysm and the heroic struggle of the survivors. Peet is playing Cusack's ex-wife, newly married to a wealthy man. Cusack plays a divorced father trying to become a writer while holding a job as a limo driver.


Emmerich wrote the script with Harald Kloser, who is producing with Mark Gordon and Larry Franco. Emmerich also is executive producing with Michael Wimer and Ute Emmerich.


Columbia's Matt Tolmach and Rachel O'Connor are overseeing for the studio.


Barring an actors strike, the movie will shoot in July. The release date for "2012" is July 10, 2009.


Peet, repped by Gersh and Management 360, is shooting Nicole Holofcener's untitled comedy and will appear in the upcoming "The X-Files" movie.

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David Cassidy

   
Artist: David Cassidy

   Genre(s): 
Rock: Pop-Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 David Cassidy

   Year:    
Tracks: 10

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Son of actors Evelyn Ward and Jack Cassidy, David Cassidy has had one of the most variety-filled careers in the entertainment industry. He number one got his jump on the television series Bonasa umbellus Family, where he pictured the vocalizing adolescent heartthrob Keith Partidge. The show featured a kinsperson travel the country and playing music in a rock band, which even included his real world stepmother/on-screen mother Shirley Jones. The part carried o'er into his actual life, where he was regarded in a interchangeable style by an enthusiastic stripling audience. He suddenly found himself qualification hit singles of his have and garnering Grammy nominations for his efforts; his fan nightclub even became the largest in the history of the medicine industry. The massive planetary merchandising helped him sell millions of records, simply by the mid-'70s he was practically driven from the spotlight by a teen market hungry for new talent. He sour to performing for a while, qualification notable video and stage appearances for many years. His roles fifty-fifty brought him to Broadway and London's West End, where he regained credibleness as a dramatic and musical theater histrion. He milked this into the '90s, when nostalgia and VH1 helped him win a larger public limelight than he had seen in years. He rode that right into a spatial relation at the MGM Grand Hotel in 1996, when he opened the 75 meg dollar picture EFX under lots guess of his drawing power. He re-vamped several aspects of the production and fine tuned it until it became one of the biggest attractions in Las Vegas, and his nightly performances became a brobdingnagian money godhead for both Cassidy and the hotel. Many awards were thrown and twisted towards the show, and this gave him the clout to view his Rat Pack Is Back level show brought to life at the Sahara Hotel & Casino in 1999. Two other shows, At the Copa and David Inc., opened the next twelvemonth at the Rio Hotel, only Cassidy had his sights set on returning to the touring racing circuit with his newfound popularity. He started a domain turn in 2001 and even secured a new record carry on to handout his high-concept stage/music ideas to home audiences.





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Imperia

   
Artist: Imperia

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   Metal: Gothic
   

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Discography:


   
 Queen of Light

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 13


   
 The Ancient Dance Of Qetesh

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 13

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Melanie Brown, Jerry Springer to co-host Miss Universe pageant

NEW YORK - Jerry Springer and Melanie Brown will co-host the 2008 Miss Universe pageant, which will air live from Nha Trang, Vietnam, on July 13.

Springer, 64, is host of NBC's "America's Got Talent," and Brown, 33, is a special events correspondent for "Access Hollywood." (Brown is also known as Mel B of the Spice Girls.) The pageant will be televised on NBC and the network's Spanish-language channel Telemundo.

Contestants representing 80 countries are judged in three categories: swimsuit, evening gown and interview.

Riyo Mori, a dancer from Japan, won the 2007 Miss Universe contest in Mexico City. She has travelled the globe as an advocate for HIV/AIDS education, research and legislation.

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Fanfare Ciocarlia

   
Artist: Fanfare Ciocarlia

   Genre(s): 
Folk
   

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Discography:


   
 Iag Bari

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 18


   
 Radio Pascani

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 23

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Fanfare Ciocarlia is a organisation band of Gypsy inheritance that adeptly manages to straddle two selfsame different worlds. After playing together as a unit for less than 6 days, the band's 11 members stool perform joyfully throughout the customary 30 hours that some of their traditional ceremonies pot last, and equally as well on a concert point half way around the worldly concern. On Saturday night band members could nurse wedding party guests in Zece Prajini, their Gypsy village set in eastern Romania, and by Sunday break of day they could be spurting cancelled to some other continent. German director Ralf Marschalleck filmed a documentary, Iag Bari--Brass on Fire, that captures the best of Fanfare Ciocarlia's divers worlds. The film was released in 2002. The band blends elements of the music from Turkey, Romania, and the Gypsies. Its musicians take away pride in their power to toy as an highly firm and tight unit, utilizing kettle, sarracenia flava, horns, and clarinets.





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Ono

   
Artist: Ono

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 Walking On Thin Ice-Remixes CDM

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 10

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The Game Wants To Work With Jay-Z

Rapper THE GAME has been "subliminally" insulting JAY-Z on his records - in a bizarre bid to get the hip-hop mogul to work with him.
The Dreams hitmaker took shots at Jay-Z via his music on tracks like It's Okay (One Blood), after hearing a freestyle the 99 Problems star made that The Game thought was aimed at him.
It turned out to be a misunderstanding, but The Game is glad it happened - because Jay-Z has now acknowledged his presence in the rap game.
And he hopes their lyrical exchange will lead to them hooking up in the studio.
He says, "Even though me and (Jay-Z) don't talk or do songs, he knows. He listens.
"He heard the 'You're 38, and you're still rappin', ugh' (from It's Okay (One Blood)). He came back on 'Kingdom Come' and I was like, 'Yeah! Jay listens to my s**t! (When Jay said) 'I used to think that rapping at 38 was ill / Till last year I grossed about 38 mill.' I was like, 'I know who he is talkin' to. I know he listens. I know his antenna's up.'
"Maybe one day he'll do a song with me, and then I'll stop shooting subliminals."

LATEST: Naomi Campbell Pleads Guilty To Airport Assault

Naomi Campbell is facing a six-month jail sentence this morning after pleading guilty to assaulting two police officers after losing it at London's Heathrow Airport in April.

The highly-strung supermodel was arrested onboard a Los Angeles-bound plane following a dispute over her luggage, which was lost in the airport's recent Terminal 5 baggage handling fiasco.

Campbell appeared at Uxbridge Magistrates' Court, west London on Friday to face six charges relating to her actions towards two officers.
The 38-year-old admitted three counts of assault, one count of disorderly conduct and two counts of threatening behaviour towards cabin crew.

A camera shy Naomi arriving at Uxbridge Magistrates' Court this morning

If convicted on all six charges she could face up to six months in prison and be fined up to $10,000 (£5,000) for each count of assaulting a police officer.