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#1. Anthem is a legendary Japanese heavy metal band founded in Tokyo during 1981 as a quartet of singer Toshihito Maeda, guitarist Akifumi Koyanagi, bass player 柴田直人 (Naoto Shibata) (“Ski”) and drummer Takamasa Ohuchi. Koyanagi left in late 1983 to be replaced by Hiroya Fukada. In December 1984 vocalist Toshihito Maeda also left and Anthem drafted 坂本英三 (Eizo Sakamoto) for their debut eponymous album issued in July 1985 by Nexus and licensed to Europe via Roadrunner Records. Their first release was the self-titled “Anthem” album, featuring classics songs like ‘Wild Anthem’ and ‘Warning Action’. The next release, “Tightrope” showcased a more catchy, melodic sound with an improved vocal perfomance by Eizo. “Bound to Break” was to be the last album featuring Eizo Sakamoto for nearly two decades, and was by far his most impressive vocal performance to that point. The album was full of classics (Empty Eyes, Bound to Break, Soldiers) and introduced the band’s long-time world-famous Producer, Chris Tsangarides (Perhaps best known for producing Judas Priest’s classic 1990 album, ‘Painkiller’). With the departure of Eizo in 1988, Naoto recruited Yukio Morikawa to the band’s vocal position.

With Yukio came the album Gypsy Ways, considered the band’s most enduringly popular album. the voice of Yukio made the band a great success at that time, and he was similar in style, vocal range and ability to Graham Bonnet.
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AoS song featured in festival-winning new film

1 May 2012 | from www.anthemofsilence.com/news/

The Cross, a new film currently killing it at festivals around the world, features the AoS song I Am One in the closing credits. The short, brought to you …

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