is the nineteenth studio
album
An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early ...
by the Japanese
heavy metal band
Loudness
In acoustics, loudness is the subjectivity, subjective perception of sound pressure. More formally, it is defined as, "That attribute of auditory sensation in terms of which sounds can be ordered on a scale extending from quiet to loud". The rel ...
. It was released in 2004 in Japan. On April 6, 2005, the band released the English version of the album, the first entirely sung in English since 2001. An international edition was released on August 9, 2005, published by
Drakkar, with a different track listing, a different cover and little differences in the production of the solo parts. The album cover marks the return of the band's classic logo, which was originally used from 1985 to 1988. A special international release of the album contains as bonus tracks the entire ''
Rockshocks
''Rockshocks'' is an album of self-covers by the Japanese heavy metal band Loudness. The album, released in Japan in 2004, contains tracks taken from the first five studio album of the band from the 1980s, played again with a more modern sound a ...
'' album of self-covers from the 1980s.
Track listings
Music by
Akira Takasaki
is a Japanese musician. He is best known as the lead guitarist and sole constant member of the heavy metal band Loudness. He is also the guitarist of the band Lazy, with which he first rose to prominence in the 1970s.
Career
He started his ...
, lyrics by
Minoru Niihara
Japanese release
#"Racing" - 00:29
#"Exultation" - 4:42
#"Lunatic" - 4:06
#"Believe It or Not" - 4:52
#"Power Generation" - 4:03
#"Speed Maniac" - 5:19
#"Live for the Moment" - 4:39
#"Crazy Samurai" - 5:21
#"Tomorrow Is Not Promised" - 6:31
#"Telomerase" - 5:50
#"R.I.P." - 5:15
#"Misleading Man" - 6:20
#"Don't Know Nothing" - 6:07
#"Unknown Civilians" - 3:58
International release
#"Racing"
#"Exultation"
#"Lunatic"
#"Live for the Moment"
#"Crazy Samurai"
#"Speed Maniac"
#"R.I.P."
#"Telomerase"
#"Tomorrow Is Not Promised"
#"Believe It or Not"
#"Misleading Man"
#"Power Generation"
#"Don't Know Nothing"
#"Unknown Civilians"
Personnel
;Loudness
*
Minoru Niihara - vocals
*
Akira Takasaki
is a Japanese musician. He is best known as the lead guitarist and sole constant member of the heavy metal band Loudness. He is also the guitarist of the band Lazy, with which he first rose to prominence in the 1970s.
Career
He started his ...
- guitars
*Masayoshi Yamashita - bass
*
Munetaka Higuchi - drums
;Production
*Masatoshi Sakimoto - engineer, mixing
*Masayoshi Sugai, Yuki Mitome - assistant engineers
*Yoichi Aikawa - mastering
*Norikazu Shimano, Shinji Hamasaki - supervisors
*Junji Tada - executive producer
References
2004 albums
Loudness (band) albums
Japanese-language albums
Tokuma Shoten albums
{{2000s-metal-album-stub