LOUDNESS – New Album Release Date Revealed

The album will be released in Japan via Ward Records and throughout Europe and North America via earMUSIC, home to other world-class acts such as Deep Purple, Alice Cooper, Status Quo, Def Leppard and Thunder.

Details to be revealed soon.

Band Members

Akira Takasaki / Guitar

Minoru Niihara / Vocal

Masayoshi Yamashita / Bass

Masayuki Suzuki / Drums

In May of 1981, Munetaka Higuchi (ds) and Akira Takasaki (g) from LAZY decided to form their own band to pursuit their favorite music style.

Minoru Niihara (Vo), a former member of EARTHSHAKER, became the original lead singer of LOUDNESS after auditions. Masayoshi Yamashita (b), an old friend with Takasaki, was also selected after a few auditions.
“LOUDNESS” started recording their first album from August 1981.

The first album “THE BIRTHDAY EVE” was released in November, which left a vivid impression among Japanese hard rock musicians.

Takasaki’s arming recorded in the opening of “THE BIRTHDAY EVE” was the trigger to change the Japanese rock music style. In December, the debut concert was held in Asakusa International Theater. As oppose to people’s opinion that hard rock reduced their presence in the Japanese music scene, 2,700 tickets were sold out, and LOUDNESS showed exclusive performance for them.

After the debut, LOUDNESS released their second album “DEVIL SOLDIER” in July 1982 and the third one “THE LAW OF DEVIL’S LAND” in January 1983. An American engineer Daniel McLendon was hired for those two albums because band members had a thought that Japanese engineer wouldn’t be able to record great heavy metal sounds. By this time, the sound quality and technique of LOUDNESS had already become exclusive ones as a “Japanese band.”

Source: BW&BK

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