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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.
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SamuraiSx
Blast is awesome.[4] @kacper92 just google it you'll find it immediately.
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kacper92
What, there is already a new song?! Link anyone?
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darkonyxswe
Blast is awesome.[3] Didn't expect a new song so early. [2] Couldn't have said it better myself!
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MaRtInCeS
Blast is awesome.[2] Didn't expect a new song so early.
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jin_onose
Blast is awesome.
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kacper92
That's a really bad thing :/ Hopefully, Naoto will fully recover.
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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.
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darkonyxswe
The new album sure is epic, even more polished then Heraldic Device (and that was an amazing album in my opinion) :D
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Mouamoua
This is how you do heavy metal.
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SamuraiSx
really love new album !!! KISKING ASSES !!! *o* UNBROKEN SIGN is my love form now <3
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carlos_galvan
get away get away......far away far away...
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Plodman
Total riff bastards!
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andoruB
Overture + On and On are both masterpieces together! Also love Unbroken Sign, Evil one, Double Helix (obviously), Face the Core and Dance Alone ^^
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ibonnu27
Simply <3
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rockshocks
I'll quote previous people. XP I bought it 3 times myself.
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SamlSelehpotsiH
New album is f**king great！Buy it or die！
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kacper92
Burning Oath is an epic masterpiece in the pure form, as one can expect from Anthem! They still rock like hell \m/
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jriron
On and on rocks!
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xxweirdwonderxx
Annnnnnd they still got it!
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