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\nThree years after their globally successful album, The Sun Will Rise Again (2014), Japanese metal legends LOUDNESS return with their new album, Rise To Glory, scheduled for a worldwide release on January 26th, 2018.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Details to be revealed soon.
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\nBand Members<\/p>\n
Akira Takasaki \/ Guitar<\/p>\n
Minoru Niihara \/ Vocal<\/p>\n
Masayoshi Yamashita \/ Bass<\/p>\n
Masayuki Suzuki \/ Drums
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\nIn May of 1981, Munetaka Higuchi (ds) and Akira Takasaki (g) from LAZY decided to form their own band to pursuit their favorite music style.<\/p>\n
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.
\n\u201cLOUDNESS\u201d started recording their first album from August 1981.<\/p>\n
The first album \u201cTHE BIRTHDAY EVE\u201d was released in November, which left a vivid impression among Japanese hard rock musicians.<\/p>\n
Takasaki\u2019s arming recorded in the opening of \u201cTHE BIRTHDAY EVE\u201d 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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
After the debut, LOUDNESS released their second album \u201cDEVIL SOLDIER\u201d in July 1982 and the third one \u201cTHE LAW OF DEVIL\u2019S LAND\u201d in January 1983. An American engineer Daniel McLendon was hired for those two albums because band members had a thought that Japanese engineer wouldn\u2019t 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 \u201cJapanese band.\u201d <\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Three years after their globally successful album, The Sun Will Rise Again (2014), Japanese metal…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59458"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59461,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59458\/revisions\/59461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nSource: BW&BK
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