outrage - the final day cd review

 Hi. At long last I got a chance to talk about this cd. As usual first in my Bahasa Melayu Pasar, then my broken English.

As usual, I try to talk different things in both languages.  

Or else just view the pretty photos. This album has no mentioned of the band name or album name, except on the Obi Strip. That piece of paper with the band name is actually a sticker.

Kadang2 aku rasa band ni lagi Metallica dari Metallica. Band Jepun yang satu bagusnya band ni constant. Dari apa sikit2 aku boleh dapat update dari mereka melalui internet, dan jugak Twitter yang memang tak faham apa mereka borak semua tulis Jepun, kena translate. haha.

Jadi tahun 1991 dulu, keluar kaset Outrage THE FINAL DAY ni di pasaran, Dan memang hebat, ni serupa satu dalam sejuta tu, bila semua menjadi, dan melahirkan album, aku tak reti la nak panggil ni band Thrash ke hapa ke, tapi ni album memang best giler.. Start sampai abis. Kalau korang boleh dengar seluruh album dalam youtube ke hapa ke kalau ada yang tak pernah tahu kewujudan album ni.

Terutama waktu semua lagu keras, tiba-tiba masuk lagu River, mereka slow down kan giler giler suasana mendayung sampan pelan2 di sungei penuh emosi. Album ni sangat dramatik.

Lagu pertama My Final Day masuk hanya lepas minit pertama, terus masuk lagu kedua Madness. Dua2 lagu ni... oh my... 

Baru tu hari mereka rilis boxset 30 tahun album ni di Jepun. Buat masa ni aku kurang la pasal aku dah remix dia aku rasa cam tak serasi ngan telinga aku yang dah otak jam dengar album ni dan versi seluruh live (Outrage Awakening) rasanya 10 tahun dahulu aku pernah blog kot? haha. Entah kat mana dah cd tu.

Tu je nak cakap. Bye.

WHEN ALL PLANETS IS ALIGNED, then was created great music thru out all album.

Japanese OUTRAGE has done that with THE FINAL DAY from 1991. A very nice cassette tapi that I make sure I got it in Japanese press with OBI too...

There was this boxset of 30th Years Anniversary of The Final Day. I got a bit turned off from the first remix by their original producer of the album back in 1990. And I am wondering if the 2nd cd is the orchestra playing on top of the original album? and the DVD ? well .. I dont exactly have time to watch videos, and I have that specific live recording already from OUTRAGE AWAKENING 2cd live where they played Final Day in full many years ago.

So this album was recorded in Germany then, in the famous Dierks named studio.

If you have not listened to this album in full, please do so. Its a roller coaster ride, with suddenly it completely slows down to a drifting slow moving river snail pace. Delicious!!

I sometimes wish Metallica could have gone this direction after they have INDULGED on their Black album. 

And Outrage, they could have gone the Metallica way, but on different albums they try different things. Some I enjoy, some I do not understand.

 But, The Final Day will always be remembered fondly. I dont think anyone can ever say any bad thing about this 1991 album.

ANTHEM feat. Graham Bonnet " EXPLOSIVE STUDIO JAM " (2020) cd review/ulasan

Salam and Good Day. 

This post will have lots of photos as I cant resist to share it with you who have not yet have opportunity to see the beautiful packaging and cute obi strip. (click each photo to enlarge)

As usual in my Broken English first, lepas tu Bahasa Melayu Pasar

Graham Bonnet is 74 this year.

His resume and career is like playing and recording with who's who of Heavy Rock History-

Rainbow, Michael Schenker Group, Alcatrazz , Anthem etc.

So after 20 years, he gets together again with Anthem for this EXPLOSIVE STUDIO JAM 8 songs recording. The songs are

1 - 3 Gypsy Ways (Win, Lose or Draw) , Crying Heart, Midnight Sun from HEAVY METAL ANTHEM album released in 2000 which are old Anthem songs recorded again with full English lyrics by Graham Bonnet.

4 - 5 Since You Been Gone , Lost in Hollywood from RAINBOW DOWN TO EARTH album

(yes... Izumu did that Cozy Powell intro)

6 Desert Song from MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP ASSAULT ATTACK album

(AND THAT NAOTO SHIBATA BASS IS SCARY LOL!!!!!!)

7 The Witchwood from ALCATRAZZ DANGEROUS GAMES album

(They really really really slow it down for this song...... A beautiful moment in time yes)

8 Night Games from one of Graham Bonnet's solo album LINE UP.

More photos from the packaging - 

I think Explosive Studio Jam is too kind and humble name for this album. Its a Super Explosive Fabulous Recording all together. 

Anthem has been constantly amazing thru the years with their releases since after their REUNION in 2000. And this shows again.

Its nice to hear Anthems current line up of Naoto Shibata, Akio Shimizu , Isamu Tamaru and Yukio Moriwaka perform these legendary songs with a legendary singer.

Anthem uses keyboards for this recordings.

Nice follow up from the Naoto Shibata side project The Man (which is actually made up of Anthem members too) live double cd where they performed selections of famous rock songs.

I had reviewed it here.. - http://deaf-angel.blogspot.com/2020/09/the-man-ultimate-formation-live-2cd.html

I LOVE THE ABOVE PHOTO VERY MUCH. LOL!!!

Lastly, below photo is a picture of my Anthem collection featuring Graham Bonnet.

I had reviewed and shown the packaging for the year 2000 Reunion of Anthem and featuring the vocals of Graham Bonnet here - http://deaf-angel.blogspot.com/2014/02/heavy-metal-anthem-anthem-with-rainbows.html

The live 2cd super awesome bootleg of Graham Bonnet live with Anthem  in Tokyo Japan July 13 , 2000 has the setlist as follows...

Till next time, I will try to show packagings of all post 2000 Anthem studio albums cd packagings in the future..  For me after Anthem reunion in 2000 they have transform leap and bound to become such a fabulous band. 

I just want to add although Yukio is awesome, but I need Eizo back in Anthem. LOL!!

Bye.

AMACAM SEMUA????

ooo kayy boleh agak la kan aku minat Anthem. Band Jepun yang dah berjaya menawan hati gua.

Zaman 80an dan awal 90an mereka best kan Rock Jepun.

Tapi selepas mereka reunion balik tahun 2000, dan selepas projek ngan Graham Bonnet ni,

(tak pedulik la samada vokalis Eizo Sakimoto ke Yukio Morikiwa) mereka dah ubah jadi GERGASI ngan lagu2 dan rakaman2 hebat yang aku minat sangat.

Tak kira jugak la sapa drummer2 mereka. Ada eksiden la. Tapi yang terbaru ni budak Izumu ni dah kira lama jugak. So harap ni line up tak berubah...

KECUALI aku nak Eizo masuk balik, suara Eizo tu Heavy Metal pada aku, suara Yukio ni hard rok la. HAHAHAHAAH. Tapi harap2 dua dua ni la nyanyi sama2. Anthem pakai dua vokalis.

Jangan macam live bluray sambut birthday 60 tahun Naoto Shibata tu.. Anthem pakai 3 vokalis. Eizo, Yukio , Tony (vokalis awal sebelum Anthem jadi retis rakaman)... gitaris pun dua... AKIRA TAKASAKI Loudness pun join tapi berapa lagu je la.. haha.

Sapa tak tahu, zaman Loudness macam sial gitu, tahun2 pertengahan hingga akhir 90an, bila Loudness memang merapek kerepek, Naoto Shibata jadi bassist Loudness. Hahaa.

OK.. apa aku nak cakap pasal cd ni?

Graham Bonnet? Dia kalau apply kerja jadi penyanyi eh... Dia punya Resume tu mesti GILER BABI HEBAT.

Rainbow, MSG, Alcatrazz, Anthem, solo albums, IMPELETTRI (tak ingat spelling) dan sapa lagi la.

Semua musicians dan bands2 hebat semua... TERBAIK DARI LADANG.

Selain tu review lain semua korang baca la kat atas aku cakap omputeh...

Tapi serious ni album lagu The WITCHWOOD tu meleleh siot. MELELEH GILER la menyentuh sanubari ku.

Alcatrazz tapi bukan  Yngwie Malmsteen atau Steve Vai original tapi Danny Johnson.

Korang tengok la Graham Bonnet ni dia dah nyanyi tuk gitaris2 semua giler2 nye... Ritchie Blackmore, Michael Schenker, atas aku baru sebut dua tu, Akio Shimizu dan ramai lagi..

So nasib baiklah Ritchie Blackmore panggil dia ganti Ronnie James Dio dulu. Rezeki dia terus terkenal dah sampai sekarang...

HAHAHA.. ok dah...

Hingga bertemu lagi di lain siaran.. Anyway aku nak harap aku ada time aku nak tayang semua studio album Anthem yang selepas tahun 2000.

Ada aku dah tunjuk kat blog ni, cerita2 sikit tapi rasanya banyak belum.

CEHHHH..... hahaha..

ok bye.

The MAN - Ultimate Formation (Live 2cd) review/ulasan (Naoto Shibata/Anthem side project)

As usual first in Broken Malay & then Broken English.

Rakaman Live 2019 ni ialah Naoto Shibata (bassist/kepala/penulis lagu/producer/ketua/Steve Harris kumpulan Anthem bersama band Anthem dan diselit jemputan tiga ahli band2 GALNERYUS dan CONCERTO MOON memainkan lagu2 rock barat yang beliau minat dan mungkin mempengaruhi nya zaman dulu kala.

Macam biasa, memang cekik darah dan ikat perut kalau nak tahu berita2 perihal band2 rok Jepun dan kemudian mendapatkan rilisan2 mereka. Tapi... memang seronok giler dan berbaloi bila dapat memilikinya walau pun selalu tertinggal bas.

Jadi macam aku minat giler band Anthem ni untuk aku selepas reformasi semula tahun 2000 dan dengan bertukar2 anggota sekalipun, kualiti mereka semakin hebat.

Sangat seronok terutama dengar Yukio Morikawa nyanyi live lagu2 Inggeris. Sangat bagus Inggeris nya, sebab tu memang percaturan Anthem ambil Morikawa semula dan buang Eizo Sakimoto memang berbaloi kerana penguasaan bahasa Inggeris Morikawa lebih baik. Sebab tu mereka boleh buat album Nucleus bahasa Inggeris 100%, Aku rasa Eizo kalau nyanyi kelaut la Inggerisnya. Tapi apa pun.. aku lagi minat Eizo dari Morikawa ni. Eizo suara metal. Morikawa ni suara lebih rock n roll pada telinga aku.

Aku speku, mungkin satu masa terdekat, lagi sekali pertukaran anggota bertukar ngan Eizo Sakimoto kembali dan Yukio Morikawa keluar semula. Memang nampak pattern kumpulan Anthem akan selang seli guna dua vokalis hebat ni... dan memang walaupun salah satu dah keluar band, tetap akan tampil bersama2 bila buat live show.

Hi Everyone, so happy with any Anthem or Anthem related releases.

So today lets talk about THE MAN project.

as can be identified, the A in mAn is the ANTHEM logo/font.

So that kind of give it away on the cover.

So its Naoto Shibata with his current Anthem Yukio Morikawa, Akio Shimizu and Isamu Tamaru plays the rock songs that I am sure we all are mostly familiar with.

THE SOUNDTRACK MUSIC OF MOST OF US GROWING UP.

So it was recorded live last year.. so with the inlet info here goes the setlist or songs performed and the guest musicians for specific songs. 

Though I do get confused cause I heard some 2nd guitars on some songs Akio is playing alone. Anyway... here it goes, together with what I list the original performers are.

1. Hellion / Electric Eye (Judas Priest) 

2. Breaking The Law (Judas Priest)

3. Turbo Lover (Judas Priest) Anthem + Concerto Moon guitarist Narifumi Shima

4. Out In The Fields (Gary Moore)

5. July Morning (Uriah Heep) Anthem + Galneryus keyboardist Yuhki

YES near 10 minutes of it all the sweet bitterness...

6. We Rock (Dio)

7. The Look In Your Eyes (Glenn Hugles/Thrall)

BETTER THAN THE ORIGINAL?? LOL!!

8  A Light In The Black (Rainbow)) Anthem + Galneryus singer Masatoshi Ono + keyboardist

9. Thunder and Lightning (Thin Lizzy)

10. Cold Sweat (Thin Lizzy) - Anthem with Concerto Moon guitarist

11. Are You Ready To Rock (MSG)

12. Doctor Doctor (UFO) - Anthem with Galneryus keyboardist

13 Burn (Deep Purple ) - Anthem with everyone

14. Iron Fist (MOTORHEAD)

15. You've Got Another Thing Coming (Judas Priest) - Anthem with everyone

16. All Night Long (Rainbow) - Anthem with Everyone

-The covers are very close to originals.

-Nice to hear superb vocals from Yukio Morikawa. I believe he has a strong command of English to be able to sing these live. ( And yes... I miss Eizo Sakimoto in Anthem. I hope he comes back soon )

-He is most spot on for Lemmy's Motorhead Iron Fist. LOL!!

-The music is amazing.... the bass, drums and of course Akio Shimizu on every song.

-The keyboards/guitars Tony Carey versus Ritchie Blackmore with Cozy Powell and Jimmy Bain instrumental section of A Light In The Black was so beautifully done here.

-I HAVE ZERO COMPLAINTS.

-My favourite Japanese rock band performing songs I grow up with and loved so much.

I wish there will be a video release too.

I found this on youtube... an upload of Hellion / Electric Eyes

rest of the packaging...

Bye...

Anthem - Immortal (2006) review/ulasan

I'll type in English for this one.

A quick short review, actually more to show how the packaging looks like.
Before Black Empire album in 2008, there was Immortal in 2006.

To my ears this album is melodic , as all Anthem albums are after the year 2000 reunion,
but this is definitely a hard hitting album. No exactly slow songs, unless you consider Echoes In The Dark as one. LOL!!
Even the instrumental on this album Insomnia is In Your Face.

Anthem remains still one of my favourite bands, although getting information about them and music by them and collecting their releases is so difficult and BLOODY EXPENSIVE.
But still if there is a will there is a way.
It would be a dream come true to be able to backpack to Japan and follow Anthem on their Japanese Tour.
Most of the time I have no idea what they are singing though.

This studio album is consist of
-Naoto Shibata of course
-Akio Shimizu and I love him as an Anthem guitarist
-Eizo Sakamoto - I still prefer Eizo above Yukio Morikawa as Anthem best vocalist. He makes the band sound Heavy Metal compared to the more Rock N Roll style of Yukio in my opinion.
-Hirotsugu Homma was still drummer for this album, before his accident.

Enjoy the photos... and two linked to youtube.
One this album version of Echoes In The Dark
The other a live in the studio of Immortal Bind....

click all photos to enlarge

This is Immortal Bind played live in the studio..

this is studio version of Echoes In The Dark.

I do encounter postings on the internet about Eizo's English language, but I dont care. I think he is the best for Anthem.

Thats all... Take care.

ANTHEM 30+ blue-ray-disc. (bulan April ni dah jadi bulan borak pasal rock jepun part 3)

Salam
Moshi-Moshi
and as Pet Shop Boys say on their new album first single - "Rock Is Overrated". LOL!!

As usual I will talk-cock and elaborate first in my vulgar, rude, disrespectful bazaar market Malay Language, and then to my broken, incoherent, disoriented English Language.

Scroll down a bit more that is.

cute obi strip..

Kita teruskan berbual-kons kita untuk bulan April ni pasal rock jepun.

Macam Kumpulan Wings jugak...
Kumpulan Anthem menyambut 30 Tahun pada tahun 2015.

Dan antara acara sambutan itu, salah satu persembahan live mereka di Club Citta Kawasaki Tokyo 28/11/2015 telah DIABADIKAN dalam bentuk cakera Blue-Ray. 
Jumlah isi padu cakera blue-ray'made in japan' ini lebih kurang 4 jam.

(cehhh Melayu aku, dahsyat siol pakai word2 bombastic entah sesuai ke tak haha, isi padu siot).

Aku rasa, terbitan video live ini tak keluar dalam bentuk dvd langsung, hanya dalam bentuk Blue-Ray sahaja.

OK, apa nak cakap? OK, paling penting, untuk aku yang tak pernah tengok Anthem main live, ini la peluang aku untuk tengok dalam video rasmi Anthem, Yukio Morikawa membawakan lagu2 semasa Eizo Sakamoto menjadi penyanyi utama Anthem terutama sewaktu zaman2 2000an pasal Yukio pun baru jugak masuk band ni balik untuk album Absolute World.
Kalau zaman Yukio sebelum ni akhir 80an hingga awal 90an tu memang ada videos la kot dia dendangkan live lagu2 zaman Eizo awal 80an. Memang ada pening sikit ni dua orang pusing2 kat kumpulan Anthem sebagai penyanyi.

Kalau sapa tak tahu, Anthem punya penyanyi ni antaranya dah dua kali bergilir2 Eizo dan Yukio silih berganti.. Eizo zaman 80an kemudian Yukio zaman akhir 80an hingga awal 90an..
kemudian lepas reformasi Anthem dan khidmat Graham Bonnet untuk satu album tahun 2000, Anthem kembali kepada Eizo dan lebih kurang dua tahun lepas, Eizo keluar dan Yukio masuk balik kumpulan ni.

Memang susah nak dapat maklumat kumpulan2 rock Jepun, tapi apa aku ada baca. Eizo sakit.

ni serupa jugak, drummer mereka Homma kemalangan, dan masih belum pulih penuh dan digantikan, MALAHAN pemain bass Anthem iaitu Naoto Shibata - ketua, tukang tulis lagu, dan tulang belakang kumpulan ni, sebagai mana Steve Harris ialah pemimpin kuku besi Iron Maiden, jugak menghidapi sakit barah perut tak silap tapi dia dah pulih rasanya.

Jadi memang seronok aku tengok Yukio mendendangkan lagu2 zaman Eizo terutama untuk lagu2 dari album Black Empire contohnya yang aku minat sangat album tu.

Sama hebat sama dahsyat kedua2 Yukio dan Eizo walau kalau aku nak mudahkan pada telinga aku ni Yukio lebih kepada hard rock, dan Eizo lebih kepada style heavy metal.

Naoto Shibata memang hebat abis kat blue-ray ini, gitaris Akio Shimizu pun dah lama beraksi untuk kumpulan Anthem dan memang terbaik dari segala segilah pada aku, aku minat dia ni haha, dan jugak drummer baru mereka Isamu Tamaru memang dahysat jugak.

Takde solo2 ok kat show ni, lagu demi lagu... semua nya 28 lagu. tak yah nak segmen solo la kan main je lagu demi lagu berapa banyak lagu sedap dorang ye tak, si Akio Shimizu setiap lagu pun gitar dia dah giler2 dan memang solo2 dia kat setiap lagu dah cukup best giler dah, dan Naoto Shibata biasalah, bass dia memang menonjol sejojol-jojolnya kat audio apa2 la rilisan Anthem. haha.

OK, dua lagu dimainkan style accoustik, lagu Walk Through The Night dan lagu Racin Rock yang lagu lama dari album pertama.
Menarik giler.

OK selain 28 lagu, blue raya ni jugak ada interview2 punya segmen, macam2 interview la,
tapi cam siot...
semua berbual Jepun, bahasa Jepun mana aku paham apa dorang berbual, 

banyak ok MASA ITO. Korang mesti tahu kan nama ni, dari zaman Rainbow, Deep Purple, Iron Maiden, dan banyak la band2 rock, semua nama ni, dan dia memang banyak kat interview2 nye segmen.
Ada Burrrnnn nye majalah nye editor la apa la...

Memang rasa macam sial abis la, tengok dorang seronok cerita2 borak2 pasal apa entah, aku melopong tak paham satu benda pun...
BAGERO!!

Aku cuma heran kenapa dalam interviews ni atau live, members Anthem lain takde, at least panggil la si Eizo ye tak...

ok ok, seluruh blue-ray ni, ada satu bahagian cakap Inggeris, apabila Chris Tsangarides (producer terkenal omputeh) berbual pasal Anthem pasal dia kan mula terbitkan album dorang zaman Bound TO Break.
Dia cakap Anthem - MAJESTIC. dan dia puji Naota Shibata, apa yang penting ialah kualiti lagu.

dan memang betul... Anthem ni konsisten dan rasanya macam makin bagus lak... haha...

ok Nanti aku senang, aku rakam pakai handphone aku aksi2 dari live blue ray ni then aku tampal kat youtube channel aku.... 


k dahbis berbual kon cakap melayu.

ANTHEM. or should I say, the current line up of Anthem is as above poster..

What can I say? Possibly one of the best bands around.

This is my review and short opinion of the new Anthem blue-ray release Anthem 30+ to celebrate 30 years.

Unfortunately, not many people in the world are aware of them and follow their developments,
Fortunately, I got to discover their music, Lucky me.
and currently, and for a number of years now, they are my clear favourite Japanese rock band.

I am blowing up my money to get their releases. Damn fuckin expensive Japanese releases may I add.

I have yet to go crazy on them like I am into Iron Maiden, so no crazy alone backpacking to Japan to see them play live. And fuck, how am I going to get tickets to their shows?? LOL!!!

maybe next time, I may travel to Japan to see Anthem play, once Steve Harris announce Iron Maiden has stop. LOL!!!

OK, again another outstanding live release from Anthem. Only on Blue-Ray. 4 hours, 28 songs + Interviews.

AGAIN NO SUBTITLES!!! So you have Masa Ito among others yakking away in an alien language but,
wait...
Chris Tsangarides is on this interview segment, alas, we got something in English... LOL!!!

He says if he has only one word to describe Anthem. It will be Majestic. And he did praise Naoto Shibata and yes, he did say, Anthem is all about songs, quality songs.

AGREED 100%

No bass solos, No guitar solos...  28 songs is more than enough to hear Naoto Shibata's exploding bass and Akio Shimizu's exciting guitars and solos.

Yukio is back, and its great to hear and see him singing Eizo's songs from the 2000 years...

Black Empire? Great.
Walk Through The Night? Its accoustic, beautifully done, and Yukio again. Awesome.
They also did Racin Rock as an accoustic. Amazing

The whole show is awesome. Seems lots of funny things and stories is being told.
I HAVE NO FUCKIN IDEA WHAT WAS BEING SAID!!

DAMN!

If nobody shows it on youtube I will record a bit using my handphone and upload it on youtube as usual.

I think I stop now...

Other Anthem releases I had blogged about are here...
http://www.deaf-angel.blogspot.sg/search/label/anthem

Other Japanese bands releases I had blogged about are here...
http://www.deaf-angel.blogspot.sg/search/label/rock%20jepun

Just maneuover it at the bottom to click the previous pages..

ok more photos of packaging...

World Peace. Bye.

LOUDNESS THE LAW OF DEVIL'S LAND :Loudness 35th Anniversary Columbia Reissue.(bulan April ni dah jadi bulan borak pasal rock jepun part 2)

Salam
Moshi-Moshi'
and rock you all around the world.

Continuing on showing the Columbia Label re-issue of Loudness 35th Year Anniversary Celebrations with "Remasters supevised by the band members".

As usual I write first in my disrecpectful rude vulgar bazaar market Malay language, and then switch to my broken incoherent English language.

Kumpulan Loudness zaman dorang masih cuma jadi artis pasaran Jepun memang suka judul perkataan Devil Devil ni semua ye. 1982 Devil Soldier, 1983 Law Of Devil's Land.

Law Of Devil's Land ni untuk aku, adalah album kedua terbaik Loudness dibelakang dua-dua versi Disillusion yang aku berbual kons pada posting yang lepas.

Bermula dengan instrumental Theme Of Loudness Instrumental Part 2, yang tak menjanjikan apa2 yang ada kena mengena dengan ROCK langsung selain dari ayat intro pasal tentera setan.

Terus dari lagu kedua sampai lagu terakhir, memang heavy metal walau tak seheavy metal macam Disillusion,  tetap rock mampos abis. Ada lagu laju, ada tak laju tapi semua thrill. Dan gitar Akira Takasaki memang giler2 la kan, suara Minoru Nihara sedap, drums dia bass dia memang seronok sangat. Munetaka Higuchi dan Masayoshi Yamashita. Boleh ingat ok nama2 gini terbelit2.

Masalah untuk aku ialah aku suka sangat kat Disillusion, kalau aku tak dengar Disillusion aku akan cakap ni album sangat terbaik dalam sejarah.
Kalau kat album Disillusion pun ada slow down jiwang abis dengan lagu Ares Lament. Album Law Of Devil's Land takde la, kira semua sama ada lagu laju dan rancak dan takde yang terus slow abis meleleh. Mungkin Mr Yes Man lagu paling slow tapi heavy la kan kat album ni.

Dua lagu paling famous dan orang tahu kat album ni aku rasa sudah tentu In The Mirror dan Speed. Terutama lagu In The Mirror. Kerana ni dua lagu memang lagu2 live untuk sapa minat dengar Loudness nye muzik.
Lagu title track Law Of Devil's Land pun laju jugak... suara Minoru memang berhantu la zaman2 dulu tu ye... Orang Jepun cuba nyanyi omputeh.

Tapi lagu2 lain kat album ni pun gerek2 jugak... 
Show Me The Way aku suka sangat, 
lagu I Wish You Were Here sangat unik lagu ni kalau aku buat andaian sama macam lagu Scorpions Hey You gitu.
Black Wall. Ni lagu intro dia dahsyat. 
Sleepness Night pada aku ialah satu2 lagu generik gitu. Tapi tetap sedap terutama bila kat tengah dia slow down terus lepas tu pulak Akira solo.

Aku rasa la kan, kalau orang nak dengar Loudness la, nak mula dengar Loudness, aku akan suruh dengar ni album atau Disillusion la...
Thunder In The East dan seterusnya zaman Atlantic label bila dorang jadi artis International untuk aku macam, aku rasa aku kerut dahi la kalau nak banding zaman Jepun ni.

"WELCOME MY SOLDIERS!!
YOU ARE DEVIL'S CHILDREN."

Such a very rocking introduction.

And so begins the Loudness 3rd Japanese album from 1983, The Law Of Devil's Land.

Like I say, the 4 Japanese albums from Loudness (it becomes 5 if you split Disillusion and Disillusion English Version as seperate albums).. are the very best from Loudness ever.

Yes, they have memorable moments from the International albums starting from Thunder In The East, even the Mike Vescera years, and even the reunion years and I think Spiritual Canoe and Biosphere are really good albums,

but the early years, especially Law Of Devil's Land and of course Disillusion are the best to me.

This album is maybe most known for having the songs Speed and In The Mirror, but all other songs are just as awesome.
I Wish You Were Here is really the out of the box song on this album.. and its great.

Nothing much to say, to be continued and continued as always...

More photos of the packaging, the obi strip and whatever.

I really have no idea on all these text, but I guess it would make a great reading??

Last but not least..

Next Change...
(Akan Datang)

Anthem 30+ Blue Ray..
and I still have not finish watching it..

p.s Harap korang paham apa aku tengah berbual...

aku tak keharuan langsung buat blog ni haha... fast game giler pasal aku perasan dah seminggu tak update blog.
LEMAU!!

LOUDNESS DISILLUSION (English Version) & DISILLUSION (original Japanese version)- Loudness 35th Anniversary Columbia Reissue. (Bulan April ni dah jadi bulan borak pasal rock Jepun part 1)

Salam
Moshi-Moshi
and Rock You All Around The World.

As usual I'll talk-cock and elaborate first in my disrespectful vulgar bazaar market Malay Language and then switched to my broken incoherent English Language.

Cammana nak mula? aku taip ni semua, senyum dan ketawa sorang2 depan laptop semua pakai memory kepala otak je, jadi kalau info salah. Mintak maaf.

okay.. Aku rasa berulang kali aku cakap DISILLUSION (English Version) ialah antara album yang paling aku minat sekali dalam hidup aku dan aku pernah buat post pasal album ni berapa tahun lepas sudah.

Tahun ni kumpulan Loudness sedang menyambut 35 Tahun lebih kurang sama macam kumpulan Search gitu (dan jugak kumpulan Anthem jugak tahun lepas sambut 30 Tahun sama jugak macam kumpulan Wings). Blue-Ray disc sambutan Anthem yang dalam disc tu ada konsert video dan interviews lebih 240 minit gitu lain kali aku review dan tunjukkan packaging untuk sapa yang peminat kumpulan Anthem.

Memang sesuai la tu Anthem main show panjang2 sambut 30 tahun, dan Wings memang champion la kan kat Stadium Merdeka, dari kul 10.40 malam sampai 2.45 pagi. Full audio bootleg kat youtube channel aku, aku rakam. haha. Aku gembira la untuk Anthem dan Wings ye tak? haha.


Jadi antara acara sambutan 35 Tahun kumpulan Loudness ialah syarikat label COLUMBIA di Jepun telah cetak-semula jumlah semuanya 11 albums kena mengena dengan Loudness yang memang aslinya diedarkan label Columbia.
Jumlah nye 11 album iaitu 4 album pertama Loudness masa zaman dorang masih jadi artis pasaran Jepun iaitu - Devil Soldier, Birthday Eve, Law Of Devil's Land, Disillusion, Disillusion (English Version), kemudian album Thunder In The East di mana mereka mendapat perhatian seluruh dunia, SPIRITUAL CANOE (ni ialah album awal 2000 di mana semua anggota asli Loudness bergabung kembali), Pandemonium dan tiga album solo gitaris Loudness Akira Takasaki.
Jadi jumlah semua 11.

Album-album reissue ni semua dengan remasters yang "disupervised" oleh ahli-ahli Loudness sendiri.

Jadi ni ialah satu alasan untuk aku 'úpgrade' koleksi Loudness aku.
Dan tentunya aku bermulakan dengan DISILLUSION (English Version) dan versi asli DISILLUSION.

Perbezaan DISILLUSION dan DISSILUSION (English Version) ialah, Disillusion ialah album pasaran Jepun yang kempat Loudness pada awal 1984. Seperti lagu rock Jepun yang kita ketahui selalunya liriks kebanyakkan dalam bahasa Jepun dan ada bahagian seperti chorus guna Inggeris. Dalam album Disillusion asli Jepun, cuma Satisfaction Guranteed je tak silap aku semua Minoru Nihara nyanyi dalam bahasa Inggeris.

Tetapi oleh kerana waktu tu mungkin nama Loudness dah mula pelan2 dikenali oleh peminat rock di tempat lain selain Jepun, maka Loudness pun dapatkan khidmat XXXXXXXXXXXXX (sorry aku lupa nama) untuk gantikan liriks Jepun dengan bahasa Inggeris dan rakam lagi sekali vocals album ni dengan seluruh liriks dalam bahasa English. Jadi album ni dipasarkan untuk pasaran International.
Rakaman album ni dibuat kat London.


Tapi kalau sapa masih simpan kaset2 Loudness cetakan ROADRUNNER. Yang kat dalam sampul ada taruk "Drugs are no fun" nye madah pujangga tu...

Kalau korang perasan sampul dia ialah artwork album Disillusion asli Jepun, tapi isi lagu nye ialah English Version. Ni aku cakap dari ingatan, kalau salah sorry... kaset aku semua dah abis dah buang atau hilang dah semua.

Perbezaan lagi satu ialah English Version ada satu lagu lebih. Iaitu instrumental Anthem Loudness Overture.

Ulasan dan pendapat aku untuk DISILLUSION (asli versi Jepun), dan DISSILLUSION (English Version) ialah tetap utuh tetap teguh ni album sebaik album muzik dari mula sampai abis.

- Untuk aku zaman terbaik Loudness ialah empat album pertama Jepun mereka, dan Disillusion ialah penghabisan yang paling unggul dan terhebat sekali untuk zaman Jepun mereka tu sebelum mereka menjadi kumpulan yang terkenal satu dunia dengan kehadiran Thunder In The East.
- Untuk aku Thunder In The East tu kira ok la, bagus la tapi lebih kepada ok dari nak cakap best giler.
- Untuk aku zaman label Atlantic Years nye album2 Loudness yang selepas album Thunder In The East, apabila dorang jadi famous terkenal satu dunia, ok la, sedap la jugak tapi lebih kepada rock yang maksud aku lebih kepada rock radio.
- Untuk aku So Lonely ok ok je tapi lagu asal So Lonely iaitu Ares Lament ialah terbaik dalam sejarah lagu jiwang. HOHOHOHO!!!!
- Untuk aku.. zaman Minoru Nihara keluar dan ganti dengan Mike Vescera aku suka jugak album Soldier Of Fortune , dan aku suka lagu Never Again.
- Untuk aku zaman Masaki Yamada (E.Z.O) nyanyi, zaman Masayoshi Yamashita keluar dan diganti dengan Taiji (X-JAPAN) dan kemudian Naota "Japanese Steve Harris" Shibata (founder, leader, songwriter, bassist ANTHEM), aku tersangatlah kurang. Ini serentak lebih kurang zaman mendiang Munetaka Higuchi keluar dan Homma (ANTHEM) masuk sebagai drummer.
- Untuk aku zaman 2000 keatas reunion semua empat anggota asli Loudness, aku suka Spiritual Canoe dan tak dilupai Biosphere. Ada beberapa lagu dalam ni dua album yang sangat terbaik pada aku.
- Sekarang ni Munetaka Higuchi dah mati sakit barah cancer, dan masa yang sama aku terus makin kureng dengan arah Loudness yang terbaru.

Tapi apa pun, beberapa album mereka tetap jadi pujaan aku terutama Disillusion dan pasangan nye Disillusion English Version.

Setiap lagu yang terbaik..., terutama aku pernah baca Minoru Nihara pernah cerita pasal Disillusion ialah album paling heavy yang dorang pernah rakam.
Album ni memang heavy, memang bukan rock la tapi heavy metal nak mampos nye heavy metal dan kebanyakkan nye laju dan sangat thrill dari mula sampai abis. Gitar solo giler2 dari Akira Takasaki merata2, bass dia cemerlang dan memang ada segmen memang terserlah contoh Butterfly nye mengejut2 nye part tengah lagu dan drumming Munetaka Higuchi penuh dan aneka ragam sangat la pada telinga aku. Suara Minoru Nihara memang terbaik la kan, dan ni zaman 1984 nye Minoru Nihara nyanyi dalam bahasa English. So bayangkan betapa indah.
Tapi tentu nya paling penting ialah kualiti setiap lagu dalam album ni.

Dari Overture sebagai instrumental pembukaan yang memang tak tahu apa nak jadi, terus masuk Crazy Doctor lagu live yang sangat popular, terus masuk ESPER, dan ESPER ni sangat hebat dan laju, lagu Butterfly yang macam bersahaja je tapi terus masuk instrumental terus terkejut2, lagu Revelations, solo Exploder yang mendebarkan dan sampai sekarang jadi acuan solo gitar Akira main live, Dream Fantasy lagu rock laju yang ada lirik keramat "UNDER THE SPELL OF A FOX GIRL", Milky Way satu2nye lagu aku sangat suka sangat, Satisfaction Guranteed juga sedap boleh goyang2 badan, dan terakhir dengan ARES LAMENT yang sedap, dan lirik pun cantik, dan ending yang paling terhebat.

Takde cacat cela langsung album ni la pada aku...

Above is the lyrics sheets of both Disillusion albums from the Columbia label re-issue "remastered with Loudness members supervision" of total 11 albums under Columbia label (8 from Loudness, and 3 from Akira Takasaki solo) to celebrate Loudness 35th Years Anniversary.

As above, One is in original Japanese version and the other the English Version.

An album that for me possibly one of my top 5 non-Iron Maiden or Belinda Carlisle albums that I like in my whole life. 

Traditional Heavy Metal with lots of crazy exciting solos, thrilling, amazing songs from start to finish, awesome music by each band member, the singer dramatic voice and something magical with how Minoru singing in English for the full album back then when Loudness are still a Japanese band.

Excluding Overture as its a short instrumental.
I would rate each song
Crazy Doctor 10/10
Esper 11/10
Butterfly 10/10 and 11/10 for the instrumental section.
Revelations 10/10
Exploder 11/10 and Akira can do what he like with his hair LOL!!!
Dream Fantasy 10/10 for the song and 20/10 for the English version lyrics.
Milky Way 100/10. Yes ONE HUNDRED OVER TEN.
Satisfaction Guranteed 10/10.
Ares Lament 1000/10. Yes a thousand.

Overall score for Disillusion English Version a perfect 666/666

Disillusion original Japanese version I would give 664/666 the neighbour of the beast because I dont understand the Japanese parts of the songs LOL!!


So thats about it...

Next... maybe I will talk about the new Anthem Blue Ray? If I can complete watching it. Its like over 4 hours long of the concert and some interviews.

LOL!!



Last photo CUTE OBI STRIPS .....  TO BE CONTINUED!!!!!

(BERITA) Japanese Rock Incoming News that excites me - LOUDNESS / ANTHEM / OUTRAGE etc

Salam and Greetings To All.
WARNING - This is a long post.

As usual, I will talk-cock in my style of Disrespectful Rude Market Malay Language, and then to my Incorrigible Broken English Language.

But first, I saw this poster on the internet and how fucking mentally frustrated I am.
Loudness, Outrage and currently for the past few years my favourite Japanese Heavy Rock band - Anthem.
All together in one show. DAMN! SHIT! How I Wish I Could Be There Moment. This is a dream line-up if there ever was one.
Its like BELINDA CARLISLE & VREID opening for IRON MAIDEN. LOL!!!

Speaking of a Japan show, Iron Maiden is playing two nights at the same place in April in Japan.

Now in another time another place, that would be suitable for fans with limited budget who is travelling especially backpacking to see their favourite band but able to stay put in one place and see Maiden play over two nights at same location.

I once did this for Festhalle Frankfurt which Maiden played for two nights in 2014.
Maybe I get a similar chance next time.

Dari berbual pasal ELLA rock melayu dalam posting yang lepas, kita pindah ke rock Jepun.
Sama hebat, tak lebih , tak kurang.


1) Poster atas - Loudness/Outrage/ANTHEM. Bulan Mei ni kat Jepun. Aku tak paham selain dari maklumat itu. Lain semua berbual Jepun. Pada aku la ni sangat terbaik kalau dapat pergi tengok persembahan ini dengan tiga band Jepun yang aku minat beraksi satu malam. 

-Loudness tentu korang semua tahu. 
-Outrage ni kadang2 la, kadang2 pada aku ni band lagi Metallica dari Metallica.
-Anthem, sapa baca blog ni tahu la betapa kemaruk aku dengan kumpulan Anthem ni.

2) Bercakap pasal Loudness, Loudness dalam suasana menyambut 35 Tahun sebagai sebuah kumpulan. Itu hari dah keluar remastered Thunder In The East, ada satu boxset giler bapak mahal dalam ada vinyl semua, ada satu edisi dua disc yang masih harga berpatutan, dan nanti bulan 3 nanti akan keluar versi remastered satu disc.
Ada 11 album yang asli nye dari syarikat rakaman Columbia akan keluar bulan March nanti dengan remastering membabitkan anggota Loudness.
Tak silap aku Lima Album Pertama Loudness (empat pertama yang aslinya untuk pasaran Jepun dan kelima ialah Thunder In The East, campur SPIRITUAL CANOE, PANDEMONIUM, dan tiga album dari zaman solo Akira Takasaki.
Kalau ada peluang nak dapatkan remastered version ni, 
Aku target album yang antara aku paling minat 
- Disillusion English Version
- Disillusion 
- Law Of Devil's Land
Untuk aku ni dua album atas ni terbaik terutama Disillusion English Version.
Disillusion tentunya album paling Heavy Metal dan untuk aku terbaik setiap lagu zaman Loudness bermula dulu sebagai band Jepun sebelum mereka dikenali dunia dengan Thunder In The East.

Untuk aku Thunder In The East ni macam Dio punye Holy Diver.
Orang ramai dan penulis2 puji macam nak mampos, hebat la apa la...
Untuk aku Thunder In The East tu bagus la, tapi typical rock album untuk telinga aku walau ada lagu best, sama macam Holy Diver.
Album2 lain lagi best, untuk aku la. 

3) Bercakap pasal ANTHEM pulak...
Anthem akan keluarkan satu live Blue Ray Disc, bertajuk ANTHEM 30+
Aku rasa seluruh Blue Ray ni ialah Anthem main live dan interviews dan backstage.

Senarai lagu nanti aku letak kat bawah nanti.. aku jumpa kat dalam tenet untuk sapa yang minat Anthem sini.
Ni aku rasa ialah album cover untuk ANTHEM 30+ Blue Ray Disc.

Akan terbit sama hari dengan 11 Remastered albums Loudness zaman Columbia records yang aku cakap kat atas tadi.

4) Outrage dan One OK Rock - Aku berbual kons cakap omputeh eh.

K , tukar cenel 3 ke cenel 5.

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So as the above,
Loudness is celebrating a sort of 35 Years Anniversary, that already have that expensive but really wonderful Boxset of Thunder In The East.
Unfortunately... Backpacking for Iron Maiden Book Of Soul World Tour is more important LOL!!!
so lets skip.
But next month, Loudness is releasing 11 albums as remasters versions with the involvement of the Loudness band members themselves.
So guess which ones I am going to go for?
of course the early years when Loudness was just a Japanese band.
The two Disillusion versions and Law Of Devil's Land should start of nicely.
Once I hope to get them, and if I really get them, I will blog it here. LOL!!!


As another of the photo I pasted above, 
ANTHEM is releasing a blue ray called ANTHEM 30+
I think that photo will be the cover of the album.
This I hope to have a copy.
ANTHEM has been my flavour of the month Japanese band for like? few years now. LOL!!!

continuation..

Lasrly Outrage...

They have recently released a mixture albums of cover songs from the Psychedelic Japanese Bands of early 70s, plus some traditional songs I believe (Kojono Tsuki) and also some of their own songs.

Album is called GENESIS I.

This is the cover above.

I dont have it. I think its good.
This is a video of their version of the song IJANAIKA from the 70s Psychedelic Japanese Band The MOPS.



Lastly,

ONE OK ROCK or something?

I knew they played Singapore. Never got to know about them. I think they are a younger band.

But then I think they will play Donington Park at Download Festival on 2nd stage Sunday (Iron Maiden headlining day).

If I can make it for this event, and I am trying to make it possible whatever the challenge$$$ LOL!!.
Maybe I can find some time to check them out?

This is the latest poster with their band name on it. See Sunday.

But it will be chaos and I dont know how the timetable will be like.
Seems its going to be confirmed Maiden will not clash with both SAXON and JANE'S ADDICTION, and I assume NAPALM DEATH on 4th Stage will also have stopped playing once Maiden hit the stage on Main Stage.
Its going to be a crazy Sunday.

OK till next time.


RONG RIVE WOCK N WOLL!!


Next post... Lets go for the best of British..
Not Iron Maiden, or Deep Purple or Black Sabbath or even Led Zeppelin, Judas Priest or Rainbow, 

but the more heavier and Satanic kind of music...

HUMAN LEAGUE AND PET SHOP BOYS among others.