Loudness
ROCK AND ROLL CRAZY NIGHTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Who else likes Loudness?!?!?!? And if you all say you don't like Loudness then you all suck! :P If you don't know em, you should listen! The band has many different era's one could listn to and hear a totally different sound! 1981-1984 is more older sounding metal like....well you know, real early sounding stuff. 1985-1991 is more a sound of commercial like heavy metal at that time 1992 my favorite Loudness cd came out that year! :D 1993 on to about....1998 or 1999 was more alternative sounding in terms of their sound. It's still pretty heavy but not so much metal for a time. :( 2001 up to now! A pretty heavy sound that is metal all the way! Very heavy stuff. My favorite cd of theirs is their self titled cd from 1992. It's frickin awesome! Metal all the way! No compromises! Blast your head off, heavy, speedy, thrash filled metal! After that, sadly, they seemed to slow down to a more mid paced thing....which ALWAYS gets on my nerves no matter what band it is! If you were thrashy and super fast at one point, there's nothing wrong with slowing down a tad sometimes but ya GOTTA keep it fast or else it just won't grab you like the original stuff did you know? Anyway, Loudness is frickin awesome! All in favor say ROCK AND ROLL CRAZY NIGHTS!!!!!!!

I sometimes see them on Space Shower TV in Japan Yeah Loudness is one of the better metal bands "in Japan", along with Sex machine guns. While their compositions are good, I don't really like the way the vocalist sounds. His voice just isn't thrash enough for me. But hey at least they're true metal. The best overall metal band that I heard in japan was a group called "The Salinger". There was also this other mad pimping J-metal group composed of mostly Yakuza called "Stray Dog". If you want to hear real ass hardcore heavy metal from asia you go to South Korea. CRASH http://www.crashzon.com/video.html Crash Is the best fucking metal band their is in asia. You probably heard their music before, since they composed all the hardcore metal cuts for both Kingdom under fire games. Check out tracks "Moss", "Whirlwind Struggle" & "Breathe/Struggle" (Whirlwind struggle was feat. as the intro song for Kingdom under fire heroes on the X-box.) One of the most ironic things about the asian music scene imo is that the roles for Japan & Korea are reversed. Everybody claims about how Japanese rock is the shiznit & how Korean Hip hop is off the hinges, but in reality the roles are actually reversed. Korean hip hop is still at it's infancy & most real Japanese metal bands are usually overshadowed by Japanese rock bands like .... Glay. (Hah Hah they suck.) Korea makes the most hardcore Metal in Asia I'd direct y'all to a Korean heavy metal website, but I'm still peeved at the fucka for refusing to sell me his Kingdom under fire osts. Japan makes some of the world's most creative hip hop. http://www.cultureuniversal.com/videos/jp/aco.php http://www.cultureuniversal.com/videos/jp/rumi.php http://www.cultureuniversal.com/videos/jp/papab.php (I actually submitted some of those vids. The sexy Papa B "Who Am I" vid is from a recording that I sent to the webmaster a couple yrs. back. By sexy of course I'm referring to the women in the vid & not Papa B himself. He sounds kinda funny at first, but wait until he gets to the verse where he starts singing & screaming...it's like damn that sucka can flow.) Before I started K7 SIN I used to run an underground Japan sub culture site that actually did cover music sub genres such as metal,goth,hip hop, gangster,etc. I also covered some Korean artists as well since some of the artists were requesting moi to make some info pages about them. I permanently shut the site down two yrs. ago though,since I was sick & tired of having to reconstruct the website from scratch. Plus that was around the time when K7 Sin first started. (IWGP was shut down 4 or 5 times. The first 3 times were when IWGP was formerly known as Concrete BrawlaZ. )

Haha, you don't like Niihara's voice? :P Well it's probably something you like or don't I guess you know. My favorite Loudness cd is with Masaki Yamada on vocals from 1992. I think Loudness is great though. :D I recently made a myspace page for the band since the ones that ARE up are never updated or just don't change the songs EVER. http://www.myspace.com/loudnessrockshocks Loudness has many different era's of the band so you might like one and not like another. It all depends on what you are into really I guess!