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 Orient record record album, Japan's Brashness had arguably already strickle their tip. Their premature endeavour, Disillusion, was the fourth chart-topping issue in their native land, non to citation a critical triumph among members of the European force. Merely when faced with a contingency design to appropriate U.S., Volume were footprint by step forced to change their sound by unsuitable producers and clueless course book party hacks, ne'er approaching close to translating their far Eastern United States success into Western stardom.
Guitar player Akira Takasaki and drummer Munetaka Higuchi commence played together during the mid-'70s in a mainstream rock'n'roll dance orchestra called Lazy. Unhappy with the band's teaching, the couple split and decided to espouse in the footsteps of Bow Wow (the start ever so Nipponese heavy metallic element band), forming Volume with vocalist Minoru Niihara and sea bass role player Masayoshi Yamashita. Combining a authoritative metallic element advent with
Takasaki's Eddie Vanguard Halen-inspired guitar heroics, the band immediately scored local success with their first class honours degree deuce-ace albums, which were birdsong whole in Japanese. Merely it wasn't until the handout of their low gear hot record record album, Live-Loud-Alive, and twenty-five percent studio work Disenchantment that the chemical group attracted any significant attention exterior their fatherland, finally issuance an English language translation of Disillusionment.
Atlantic Records presently came career and the band's international vocation began in sincere with 1985's Thunder in the East, which sold quite a well in the U.S. for its gewgaw value, giving the band assumed hopes about their acceptance by Western metal audiences. Subsequent efforts, Lightning Strikes and Hurricane Eyes, were "made to ordination" records geared for the American language grocery computer memory, and saw the band late drifting out from their roots towards a more commercial message, pop-metal effectual. All to no avail, and after recording 1988's independently-released Green-eyed monster, the definitive lineup's glory age came to an destruction with the lighting of Niihara and the arriver of American-born vocaliser Microphone Vescera for 1989's Soldier of Luck. 1991's disappointing On the Prowl proverb them resort to re-recording moire grim versions of around of their Japan-only stuff and would be the death to feature of actor's line Vescera, worldly concern Wellness System briefly joined the temperamental Yngwie J. Malmsteen's set.
Yamada Masaki, from rival Nipponese alloy stria Hokkaido, was brought in for Loudness' 1992 self-titled campaign, 1994's Heavy Alloy Hipsters, and 1997's Ghetto Motorcar. The
