LOUDNESS (Heavy Metal Legends from JAPAN) – Release album cover art for their upcoming album Sunburst – My Warrior #loudness

December 29, 2021  Release date

[Distributor] Katana Music [Distributor] Sony Music Solutions

 

First limited production board 2CD + DVD / KTNC-1 ~ 3

Digipak / Bonus jacket / sticker / Special booklet / Three-sided case specification

Regular Edition 2CD / KTNC-4-5

 

Produced by Akira Takasaki
Performed & Arranged by LOUDNESS

As it was postponed one after another, if I couldn’t do what I could do as an artist and live, I had to shift to the creative activity of recording. As soon as the state of emergency was declared in June, the band gathered and entered the studio, pre-producing based on the ideas Takasaki had written down for the past three years, and completing the arrangement of 16 songs in just a few days. After that, Masayuki Suzuki “Ampan”, who collapsed due to a cerebral infarction immediately after the release of the 2018 album “RISE TO GLORY” and has achieved a miraculous revival after that, welcomed his senior Saber Tiger Kinoshita as an engineer at the studio in Sapporo. Started recording the drum track. On the other hand, Nishida “Dragon” Ryuichi, who is now called the strongest helper drummer in history, and Takasaki and Yamashita are in the studio near Kanto after three years of running through the domestic tour and the world tour that started two weeks after Anpan collapsed. , Started recording basic tracks. Based on the two drum tracks, while continuing to exchange tracks by connecting Sapporo, Tokyo, and Osaka, Niihara also solidified the idea of ​​singing at his home studio, and sewn between the emergency declarations to the studio. In December, the only performance in Japan in 2020, “THANK YOU FOR ALL -extra-“, was performed with restricted audience + live distribution (recorded as a DVD on the first production limited edition), and its live performance. As Niihara said in the MC of Tokyo, the song was almost finished at that time, but the MC of Takasaki As you can see, the recording continued at the beginning of the year. At the beginning of the year, there was a happening such as an engineer falling ill, and instead of showing a settlement after a year, the infection situation of corona spreading again, in the meantime, I dared to continue working until I was satisfied without deciding the release date, 5 At the end of the transfer performance of the domestic tour held in March, the prospect of completion finally started, and at the additional performance in Tokyo on 8/5, the new songs “Yamato Tamashii” and “OEOEO” were unveiled for the first time, and those two songs will be sold exclusively on NFT. .. And in the first 40th anniversary domestic tour in September (as a result, it will be held under the state of emergency in all places), we will listen to the fans who come to live under such circumstances before anyone else. I want you to. That’s why the venue-limited CD is on sale. It was sold without a title or lyrics card on a black jacket, with the idea that “I want you to listen to the sound purely and make a judgment without prejudice.” Producer Takasaki, who wrote and composed almost all of the lyrics this time, and Yamashita, who wrote and composed the first song for LOUDNESS [STAND OR FALL], reflected his own experience in the lyrics based on Anpan’s fight against illness. [The NAKIGARA], and the song group that was excavated from the Yamashita collection and was made in the studio with Munetaka Higuchi in the 1980s is also a work called [Shining 80’s] [Emerald Sea] [Door of Heaven]. Was recorded for the first time. Originally, I was planning to make a work for the 40th anniversary by sewing the ambiguity of the tour, but it seems that I was able to convince myself because the release date was not fixed and thanks to Corona’s evil. I wasn’t enthusiastic about making a double album from the beginning, but as I proceeded with the recording, this was the result. ” It was not a coincidence, it was inevitable that it became a double album, a work in a set of two that did not hold. It is an album that makes you feel. The group of songs that were made in the studio with Munetaka Higuchi in the 1980s, which was discovered from the Yamashita collection, was also recorded for the first time as a work called [Shining 80’s], [Emerald Sea], and [Door of Heaven]. Originally, I was planning to make a work for the 40th anniversary by sewing the ambiguity of the tour, but it seems that I was able to convince myself because the release date was not fixed and thanks to Corona’s evil. I wasn’t enthusiastic about making a double album from the beginning, but as I proceeded with the recording, this was the result. ” It was not a coincidence, it was inevitable that it became a double album, a work in a set of two that did not hold. It is an album that makes you feel.

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