is the twenty-fourth studio

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by Japanese heavy metal band

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, released on September 14, 2011. The album reached number 36 on the

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chart. In an interview, guitarist

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described the album as more "aggressive" than ''

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''. Saying, the previous album was focused on featuring drummer Masayuki Suzuki, but that ''Eve to Dawn'' would be guitar driven. Singer

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said that the lyrics has a more positive vibe than in previous releases because of the impact of the

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and the instrumental "A Light in the Dark" was dedicated by Takasaki to that tragic event. Regarding the album title "Eve to Dawn", 'Eve' was added due to the fact that Loudness celebrated the 30th anniversary of their debut album ''

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'' and that the late

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's birthday was on Christmas Eve, 'Dawn' has the double meaning of a new start towards the world, as well as the rising sun of Japan.

Track listing

All lyrics by

, English lyrics co-written by Takashi Kanazawa. All music by

, except track 4 by Masayuki Suzuki and track 5 by Masayoshi Yamashita. #"A Light in the Dark" (instrumental) - 1:46 #"The Power of Truth" - 5:27 #"Come Alive Again" - 4:25 #"Survivor" - 5:44 #"Keep You Burning" - 5:16 #"Gonna Do It My Way" - 4:12 #"Hang Tough" - 5:54 #"Kidoairaku" (喜怒哀楽) (instrumental) - 6:21 #"Comes the Dawn" - 7:04 #"Pandora" - 4:17 #"Crazy! Crazy! Crazy!" - 3:23

Personnel

;Loudness *

– vocals *

– guitars, keyboards, vocals on track 5 *Masayoshi Yamashita – bass *Masayuki Suzuki – drums ;Production *Masatoshi Sakimoto - engineer, mixing at Freedom Studio, Tokyo *Takeru Maeyama, Takuya Wada - assistant engineers *Manfred Melchior - mastering at MM Sound, Steinhagen, Germany *Hirose Shiraishi - supervisor *Masahiro Shinoki, Shunji Inoue - executive producers

References

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