New LOUDNESS album - EVE TO DAWN comin' soon

From the Mouth of Blab:

LOUDNESS Signs With FROSTBYTE MEDIA - May 10, 2012
Veteran Japanese metallers LOUDNESS have inked a deal with FrostByte Media. The band's latest album, "Eve To Dawn", will be released outside Japan this summer. The CD was originally made available in the group's home country last September.

In advance of an extensive North American tour around the release of "Eve To Dawn", LOUDNESS will play select American dates this month, with a special appearance at this year's M3 Rock Festival on Saturday, May 12 at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland and a headlining gig at B.B. King Blues Club & Grill in New York City on Monday, May 14.

"Eve To Dawn" track listing:

01. A Light In The Dark
02. The Power Of Truth
03. Come Alive Again
04. Survivor
05. Keep You Burning
06. Gonna Do It My Way
07. Hang Tough
08. Ki-Do-Ai-Raku (instrumental)
09. Comes The Dawn
10. Pandora
11. Crazy! Crazy! Crazy!

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THAT IS AWESOME! I just posted I wished that they would get a domestic distribution. I hope it will include their back catalog. I've been wanting their newer releases but they were pretty expensive and I don't have as much disposable income like I used to.

Here's their entire M3 set, includes the track Survivor form the new album:

thejokeriv wrote:

Here's their entire M3 set, includes the track Survivor form the new album:

Ha ha. The title to of that Youtube vid is Roudness. I see what they did there.

I haven't followed Loudness since On The Prowl. Are there any essential releases that I should track down after that?

The best ones I've heard are the self-titled one from 1992 or so (with Masaki Yamada from EZO on vocals) and it's follow up Heavy Metal Hippies. Ghetto Machine is pretty decent but then after that they got a little "experiment-y" and your enjoyment of these may vary.

King Of Pain is excellent

About time!

Sadly, the problem with Loudness was almost always the bad vocals, and it has not changed...The latest albums have several more "traditional" sounding songs, but which are pretty much ruined by the bad singing.

I'll take Anthem anyday over Loudness...

I've always kind of struggled with the vocals myself. Probably why I like the Vescera albums

I can sorta agree with the comments about the vocals. Minoru Niihara has never been a great singer, but on the early Loudness he had an odd "character" about him that was fun to listen to. I guess he can't do that sort of singing anymore since he's an old goat cuz from what I've heard of their more recent stuff, he just screams his a$$ off and it gets kinda irritating after a while...

007 wrote:

THAT IS AWESOME! I just posted I wished that they would get a domestic distribution. I hope it will include their back catalog. I've been wanting their newer releases but they were pretty expensive and I don't have as much disposable income like I used to.

Yeah me too. I have almost ordered this one a couple of times from Japan, but it is close to 40$. Glad i waited...

Vocals never bothered me - he has his own sound because of the accent.

He kinda had a Klaus Meine thing goin' on when he was younger (in fact, the first time I heard "Crazy Nights" on the radio back in the day, I thought it might be the Scorpions)... but now he's just like "HWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!" It sounds like he's having a rough time on the can

Samples sound GREAT! I will be getting this one.

Just picked this up today and am listening to it now. Sounds really good. Very good guitar work and Minoru sounds fine.