Artist: Loudness
Genre(s):
Rock
Metal: Heavy
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
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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