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Seikima-II's 1989 compilation album Worst made them the first Japanese metal band to reach number one on the chart. [13] In April 1989, X Japan's second album Blue Blood reached number 6 and has sold 712,000 copies. [14] Their third and best-selling album Jealousy was released in July 1991, topped the charts and sold over 1 million copies. [14]
Bigger success would come in 1992 when they changed from their thrash and speed metal roots to a more power metal sound. The first album with the new sound, Aion -Aion-, was very successful. Also in 1992 S.A.B left and was replaced by Shu. Local magazines and TV showcased them from 1991 until 1995, when their album Freak-Out was released. In ...
In the US, New York death metal band Suffocation released their debut full-length Effigy of the Forgotten, often considered one of the most influential of extreme metal albums. Trance music rose to prominence in the underground dance scene of Frankfurt, Germany, pioneered by such producers as Dance 2 Trance and Resistance D. U2 released their ...
On 19 June, they released their second full album, "Oni", which features a Japanese theme. A solo tour and a European tour were also planned to accompany the release. On 12 July 2020, due to the impact of COVID-19, the band's spring European tour and summer domestic solo tour were postponed.
Later in September of that same year, the group released their first full-length album (an album by the band is called a "Scripture of Doctrine" (大教典, Dai Kyōten)), [3] Seikima-II ~ Akuma ga Kitarite Heavy Metal. The album received a now-infamous rating of 0 by the metal magazine Burrn!, but sold over 100,000 copies, marking the first ...
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The group's second album, Metal Resistance was released in 2016, peaking at number two on the Oricon Weekly Albums chart, certified Gold in Japan, entering the top forty on the Billboard 200, and setting a record for the highest position on the UK Albums Chart for a Japanese artist at number fifteen.
Kuroyume's first full-length studio album, Nakigara o..., was released in June 1993 and clearly showed the group progressing in a more melodic direction by leaning further toward the goth side of things and doing away completely with any semblance of metal music. The song "Shin'ai Naru Death Mask" from their first mini album had been re ...