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.

(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.

Anthem - Prologue Live Boxx 2

[This post, lets talk cock about the Japanese awesome band, Anthem - As usual I will talk-cock the intro a bit in bazaar market Malay Language, then I will talk cock in broken English on some other things on the later part.]

Hi semua.. Nari nak cerita pasal satu boxset Anthem yang untuk aku memang susah giler nak dapatkan. Aku "damn" boxset ni dah bertahun jugak. Cetakan ni cuma 5000 keping ke 2000 aku dah lupa, masalahnya memang ada orang jual kat ebay tapi harga mahal nak mampos.
(Prolougue Boxx 1 beratus siot harga sekarang kat internet. Anthem ada niche mereka sendiri dalam kalangan pendengar muzik satu dunia. Aku tahu pasal aku tengok orang2 klik posting2 aku pasal Anthem dari negara2 pelik2 jauh2. Serious berbual makin aku ambik tahu pasal kumpulan Anthem, aku rasa dorang sangat ISTIMEWA dan GEMILANG walaupun aku ada feberet era2 zaman2 berlainan Anthem yang aku lebih minat.)
Sambung balik pasal BOXX 2 ni yang aku carik original nye murah2 nye dah bertahun ni, usaha tangga kejayaan, dan akhirnya aku dapat satu yang aku speku dah secondhand, tapi kondisi nye terbaik. Very Very Very Good near Mint la.

Ini dia ANTHEM PROLOUGE LIVE BOXX 2.

Intro sikit...

Seperti sedia maklum, aku rasa terserlah kat blog ni betapa aku minat giler kat kumpulan ANTHEM. Dan dalam banyak2 formasi silih berganti kumpulan ANTHEM.
All-time Line up favourite aku ialah bila ANTHEM terdiri dari Vocal: Eizo Sakamoto (pasal untuk halwa telinga aku bila Eizo nyanyi untuk ANTHEM, kumpulan ni semakin heavy nak mampos pasal untuk aku suara Eizo ni 'unpredictable dan wild dan gila babi', tak macam Yukio Morikawa yang lebih 'controlled' (ni pada halwa telinga aku la..). Yukio dan Eizo ni dah keluar masuk Anthem dah dua kali untuk kedua2nya (musical chair), dan sekarang ni Yukio lagi sekali menjadi penyanyi Anthem. Apa aku tahu, Eizo ni ada masalah kesihatan.

Untuk Guitarist of course bila aku mula minat mendalam ANTHEM dan bukan2 dengar gitu je, selama tu la Akio Shimizu jadi guitarist dorang so dalam banyak2 guitarist ANTHEM aku minat dekni la.
Dan bassist, of course ketua ANTHEM, song writer ANTHEM, producer ANTHEM, STEVE HARRIS untuk kumpulan ANTHEM - Naoto Shibata.
Drummer, ok aku tak cerewet, walau Hirotsugu Homma nampaknya dah tak main lagi dengan ANTHEM sejak blue-ray rakaman live Unbroken tu keluar, tu jam apa aku baca dia kemalangan.
Sekarang dah berapa tahun dan termasuk album studio, dorang pakai drummer Isamu Namaru.

Dan boxset Prologue Live Boxx 2 ni menampilkan Eizo, Akio dan Naoto dan Homma, mereka main live in full kat dewan nama Shibuya Boxx (jadi pasal tu Boxx tu ada dua XX ye tak? pasal nama tempat rakaman),
- Mereka mainkan dua album studio Anthem Gypsy Ways (keluar tahun 1988) dan album studio Hunting Time (keluar tahun 1989).
- Dua2 album ni rakaman studio tahun 1988 dan 1989 dulu cuma ada Naoto Shibata je. Vokalis ialah Yukio, guitarist ialah Hiroya Fukuda dan drummer Takamasa Chuchi sewaktu rakaman studio masa dulu tu.

SEBAB TU AKU NAK ALBUM NI PASAL LINE UP ANTHEM KEGEMARAN AKU YANG ADA EIZO, AKIO DAN NAOTO MAINKAN SEMUA LAGU DARI NI 2 ALBUM SECARA LIVE.

Sebelum aku akhiri berbual kons dalam bahasa Melayu Pasar versi aku ni,

aku cuma nak cakap, kat youtube memang susah nak dapatkan bahan2 Anthem, seems ada orang yang ambil tindakan dan block atau lenyapkan audio dari apa2 persembahan kumpulan Anthem. Selalunya kat youtube banyak Anthem tu semua cover bands LOL!!!

Hello and Greetings all...

Some photos and short review of how the ANTHEM - PROLOGUE LIVE BOXX 2 looks like.

Mine is number 00923. 
The packaging is very well done and looks and feels durable and very high quality. 
The booklet inside is about 24 pages thick, full colour of Anthem members photos in action and at the dressing room, with members from the year 2010.

As we know right now 2016 January only Akio and of course Naoto is still around right now. Eizo Sakamoto has left (again), and Yukio Morikawa is back in (again) for the vocals.

Boxx 2 contains the fulL GYPSY WAYS and HUNTING TIME recorded by the then year 2010 line up at SHIBUYA BOXX on 25 February 2010 for Gypsy Ways and 26 February 2010 for Hunting Time.
As known, the original studio album from the late 80s did not feature Eizo (Yukio sang on these both studi albums), Akio and Homma.

THIS LIVE VERSIONS ARE SIMPLY INCREDIBLE TO MY EARS. SO MUCH ENERGY AND HEAVY.

Some of my older reviews and packaging photos of other Anthem releases and blue rays are here...
To go back to even older ones just click Older Post at the bottom of the page once you are on the Anthem label.

http://www.deaf-angel.blogspot.sg/search/label/anthem

Lastly a little example and reason why I like the Eizo/Akio/Naoto lineup...
This is from the 2014 Unbroken Blue Ray Live Performance and I took a short video of it using my handphone while watching on tv
Venom Strike from Domestic Booty studio album 1992..




p.s

The news is Iron Maiden is playing Beijing and Shanghai in April 2016 I forgot the exact dates..

Waiting for the Chinese Goverment approval or something...

I am sure a sample submission of a setlist will be scrutinized.. 

I guess this really means Iron Maiden has really mean it that it will be CHINA / JAPAN and straight to New Zealand and Australia...

I guess really... No Singapore and Malaysia show for this tour and all hopes seems lost now.... 

Well... Singapore got Madonna in February...  So I guess a fair sacrifice. Madonna for Maiden. LOL!!!

The tickets are fuckin expensive for the Madonna show...

Now imagine if she performs Frozen and I did not go? LOL!!!

I was imagining a best of Madonna setlist that I would dream, and I got some headaches.. too many songs I really like...

MMMM MMMM If I Could Melt Your Heart..
MMM MMMMM We Never Be Apart...
MMMM MMMM 
Your Frozen... hahahahaha....


Throw aside all her controversies and her costumes and her hanky panky acts..
Just focus on her songs and live performances...
its so clear...
Madonna Rules!

Hari Raya Eid-Fitr Greetings, Def Leppard live Singapore/Wings live KL, Maiden's Speed Of Light, Anthems videos on TV screen I took using my handphone

A few things..
One is a serious matter, the rest EARTHLY PLEASURES.

1) Firstly.

To all Muslims everywhere in the world -

Its just a few days away so an advance wish of Happy Eid al-Fitr or SELAMAT MENYAMBUT HARI RAYA PUASA or by any other different names that you guys called it in your place, in your country and in your language.

MAAF ZAHIR DAN BATIN indeed.

2) Secondly, Since we got the serious stuff out of the way, 

lets continue to rock n roll (IN MODERATION PLEASE.. LOL!!!)

Def Leppard is coming to Singapore.

A Proper Electric Performance this time. 

SUNTEC Convention Exhibition Centre.

( Hall 601-604 ni tempat kumpulan Wings main sikit hari dulu tu kan yang at end of show dorang main Musafir Di Hari Raya tu...? (kat youtube channel aku ada full bootleg persembahan seluruh konsert tersebut, a good audience fan bootleg  if I have to say MASUK BAKUL ANGKAT SENDIRI)

Ni show yang Awie masa atas stage cakap "RASA MACAM KAT WEMBLEY" pasal memang luas.

Wahhh Kira dorang raised up the stage, dan tempat duduk semua dorang bukak jadi depan stage semua berdiri la kira?

Aku rasa tempat ni alrite la. Standing harga a bit steep la. KITA TENGOK CAMMANA NANTI PASAL persembahan ni kerana dekat2 gitu...Kumpulan WINGS jugak AKAN beraksi Sambutan 30 Tahun di Stadium Merdeka KL 31 October 2015.

Yang itu lagi penting tu haha.

Apa pun, tengok keadaan, tengok rezeki, tengok kalau kerja kena rota apa? Shift apa? Ye la kita hanya merancang hanya Tuhan menentukan... Hidup perlu ada priority queue, dan rezeki ni takde orang tahu apa esok lusa akan terjadi.

Aku rasa untuk Wings tu aku nak pergi sangat.. huuu Huuu lama ye dah Wings ni...

Wahhhh rasa macam baru semalam ye?

Kaset BELENGGUS!!!!!! tapi ni 30 tahun ni rasanya sejak anggota asli Wings pertama kali bersama bergabung la ye zaman teruna mereka...  Cewahhh tatabahasa Melayu aku... Teruna siot. hahaha)

Anyway Def Leppard in Singapore.

My dream setlist which will never happened but I can dream and fantasize right?

1) NEW FAST SONG

2) Let It Go

3) Wasted

4) NEW FAST SONG

5) Another Hit And Run

6) Promises

-break-

7) - 17) The Whole SLANG album. Every song. (  I love this album, also Vivian Campbell's first album with them and also he contribute a song too, and it took me some time to finally able to absorb and appreciate the quality of every song on this album and I had blogged a title called Def Leppard Slang Deluxe Edition double cd (2013) - In Comparison with original Slang double cd (1996)

on this page -  http://deaf-angel.blogspot.sg/2014/04/def-leppard-slang-deluxe-edition-double.html and the original Slang Double Album is the one that includes the first time Def Leppard was in Singapore.

-break-

18) Love Bites

19) Pour Some Sugar On Me

20) NEW FAST SONG

21) Gods Of War

22) Animal

23) Stand Up Kick Love Into Motion

24) Coming Under Fire

-encore-

25) NEW SLOW LOVE SONG

26) Long Long Way To Go

27) When Love And Hate Collide

28) Rocket

-encore-

29) Women

30) Photograph

31) STAGEFRIGHT 

I think I would be very happy if this happens.. LOL!!

I would give Def Leppard a discount - Just play six songs from Slang  -  Slang!/ All I Want Is Everything/ Deliver Me/ Blood Runs Cold/ Breathe A Sigh/ Work It Out and I would still be very happy LOL!!.

P.S - Phil Collen is a turn-off for me being bare-bodied and with all that muscle.
If I go I would stand on the Vivian Campbell side LOL!!

3) Thirdly

Iron Maiden's new rumoured single that was first mentioned in a NORWAY music website seems to be true?? - SPEED OF LIGHT SINGLE.

Only at Best Buy? with an Iron Maiden tshirt?

I hope I can get my hands on it, but if not nevermind...

but from another point of view... "WHEN THERE IS A WILL, THERE IS A WAY". LOL!!

Cerita2 lawak kat forum internet ialah...
MATILAH tu dua orang, satu pekerja Amazon.com yang awal2 pergi masukkan maklumat Book Of Soul kat website Amazon.Com
dan jugak pekerja EMI kat Norway ni yang awal2 dah cerita pasal Speed Of Light punye single yang tu pasal orang semua ingat berita tipu aje...
kita tengok cammana nanti...

TU pasal korang perasan, Official Iron Maiden keluarkan banner " Untuk berita tepat layari Maiden.com tu kan?" tapi kenapa Eddie pakai Eddie viking kan? Tu sehari dua lepas berita ni keluar dari negara Norway HOHOHOHO...

Dan dikhabarkan BOOK OF SOUL paling pertama orang tahu ialah mereka yang langgan berita dari Amazon.Com. Terus berita ni merebak kat internet tapi semua ingat KHABAR ANGIN.
Lepas tu baru Maiden rasmi punye website umumkan.
Seperti biasa, Iron Maiden tak reti nak buat apa2 eksklusif atau kawal Rahsia Negara. Setiap berita mereka dibocorkan orang lain dan website2 lain... Hancur sikit dorang hal ni.

4) Fourth

I had used my handphone to tape some videos from the new Anthem - Blazing Faith Revisited Deluxe Edition while watching them on the TV screen.

They are Pain (live on the Akio solo portion), Love Of Hell (live version) , Turn Back To The Night & Rock N Roll Stars (live in the studio versions) 

Dont ask me to rip the blue ray disc because I dont know how, and I think its wrong? LOL!!

The full review of this release is here

http://deaf-angel.blogspot.sg/2015/06/anthem-blazing-faith-revisited-deluxe.html

Enjoy...

Anthem is always amazing.. and Akio is simply watchable..LOL!! two of his solos on this one
this is Pain near to his solo

 and the super love ballad Love Of Hell from their latest album...live version of Love Of Hell

 if you want the studio version, someone had uploaded it on youtube... here...

I DONT CARE!! DESTINATION LOVE OF HELL!!!
PLEASE SAVE ME ONCE AGAIN!
I DONT MIND!! DESTINATION LOVE OF HELL!!
PLEASE SAVE ME FOREVER!!!!....

Romantic giler ok rock Jepun. Naoto Shibata bassist dia pandai tulis lagu.

Cantik sangat ok lirik love songs Anthem.. bahagian bahasa Inggeris la haha.

If Anthem had been more popular in the rest of the world, THIS COULD HAVE BEEN A WORLDWIDE SLOW ROCK HIT!!! the verse, the break, the chorus, the melodies and what lyrics I can understand in English.. EVERYTHING FROM START TO FINISH... is simply beautiful even though I dont understand most of the song as its mostly Japanese.. HAHA.

I think I will stop now...

Good bye.. till the next time...


and SELAMAT HARI RAYA SEMUA.