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#1.(アンセム) 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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  • andoruB

    Apparently this new single was only sold on iTunes, but they might release the single on CD. Apparently they recorded this song for the opening of a live action movie under the name of "Kyūkyoku!! Hentai Kamen". I'm glad that they finally got enough recognition to be commissioned for an opening =) This would be the second time the band does promotional work through their music, the first time being the Xanadu single of 1986. Also the name of the live action would explain the bizarre and puzzling cover of the single, haha. On another note Hirotsugu Homma left the band, earlier last year he suffered a knee injury and since then he's been under medical attention. He left this April and I guess the reason is still his knee.

    13 May 1:50am Reply
  • SamuraiSx

    Blast is awesome.[4] @kacper92 just google it you'll find it immediately.

    27 Apr 12:55am Reply
  • kacper92

    What, there is already a new song?! Link anyone?

    23 Apr 8:57am Reply
  • darkonyxswe

    Blast is awesome.[3] Didn't expect a new song so early. [2] Couldn't have said it better myself!

    13 Apr 3:54pm Reply
  • MaRtInCeS

    Blast is awesome.[2] Didn't expect a new song so early.

    4 Apr 2:14pm Reply
  • jin_onose

    Blast is awesome.

    4 Apr 7:18am Reply
  • kacper92

    That's a really bad thing :/ Hopefully, Naoto will fully recover.

    25 Mar 6:16pm Reply
  • darkonyxswe

    Some bad news for you all... recently I saw this on the wiki-page of ANTHEM: On Jan 10, 2013, the band announced it was on hiatus after Shibata was diagnosed with stomach cancer.[1] The band said on its home page that the cancer was detected early and it was optimistic it could return to touring in April.

    16 Mar 8:29pm Reply
  • darkonyxswe

    The new album sure is epic, even more polished then Heraldic Device (and that was an amazing album in my opinion) :D

    16 Mar 8:29pm Reply
  • Mouamoua

    This is how you do heavy metal.

    8 Mar 12:03pm Reply
  • SamuraiSx

    really love new album !!! KISKING ASSES !!! *o* UNBROKEN SIGN is my love form now <3

    19 Feb 11:34pm Reply
  • carlos_galvan

    get away get away......far away far away...

    23 Jan 8:03pm Reply
  • Plodman

    Total riff bastards!

    8 Dec 2012 Reply
  • andoruB

    Overture + On and On are both masterpieces together! Also love Unbroken Sign, Evil one, Double Helix (obviously), Face the Core and Dance Alone ^^

    17 Nov 2012 Reply
  • ibonnu27

    Simply <3

    14 Nov 2012 Reply
  • rockshocks

    I'll quote previous people. XP I bought it 3 times myself.

    9 Nov 2012 Reply
  • SamlSelehpotsiH

    New album is f**king great!Buy it or die!

    6 Nov 2012 Reply
  • kacper92

    Burning Oath is an epic masterpiece in the pure form, as one can expect from Anthem! They still rock like hell \m/

    4 Nov 2012 Reply
  • jriron

    On and on rocks!

    3 Nov 2012 Reply
  • xxweirdwonderxx

    Annnnnnd they still got it!

    31 Oct 2012 Reply
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