Loudness - The Birthday Eve
#582
By John Tommassino
November 21 1981
Loudness
The Birthday Eve.
Genre: Metal
Allen’s Rating: 3 out of 5
John’s Rating: 3 out of 5
Highlights :
To be Demon
Sexy Woman
I'm on Fire.
First off, I'm a fan of metal and I like Japanese metal. I know other fans who dislike metal from Japan because of the vocals. But that doesn't bother me.
In the 80s, I would search record stores for unique metal from Japan including Loudness, Earthshaker and my favorite Japanese metal act, EZO.
Loudness just had it going on back then...a bonafide guitar hero in Akira Takasaki and solid musicians backing him up. You can tell these guys were hungry on this record.. it's a good album to rock out to...but their other, later releases namely the albums Devil Soldier and Disillusion built on the sound on display here. It's funny, when I went to college I had a Japanese roommate and I dated a girl from Japan. They were of the opinion that Loudness wasn't for real, that they were just imitating American and European metal acts.
Maybe, but I disagreed then as I do now.
I like Loudness. Three stars is my rating.
https://open.spotify.com/album/5IeyWpUf4DNPhC3qloOpB3?si=KQo5z5hsQvO5CC5J_yTveQ
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