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He returned to Loudness in 2000, maintaining his high profile in the metal genre. On April 14, 2008, just two months after Loudness released the album, Metal Mad, it was announced that he was diagnosed with hepatocellular carcinoma, a type of liver cancer. [11] On November 30, 2008, Munetaka died at the age of 49 in a hospital in Osaka, Japan. [12]
Loudness (Japanese: ラウドネス, Hepburn: Raudonesu) is a Japanese heavy metal band formed in 1981 by guitarist Akira Takasaki and drummer Munetaka Higuchi. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] They were the first Japanese metal act signed to a major label in the United States.
Lazy produced five successful albums at the end of the 1970s, but Takasaki's musical style, oriented towards hard rock and heavy metal, did not gel with the band and in 1981 he decided to form his own band, Loudness, alongside bandmate Higuchi. The many heavy metal albums produced by Loudness brought him international fame and vast critical ...
Taiji Sawada was born in Ichikawa, Chiba, on July 12, 1966.He was the second son of three children. His younger sister Masayo is a singer known as Sister MAYO.When Taiji was two years of age, he shoved his hand into a machine in a factory where his parents worked, resulting in a first joint cut on the middle finger, but luckily, it was not too serious.
Rock star Jack Russell has died at the age of 63. On Thursday, Aug. 15, a statement was released on the Instagram page of the vocalist and founding member of the hard rock band Great White ...
The Everlasting (魂宗久遠, Konsō kuon) is the twenty-second studio album by Japanese heavy metal band Loudness. It was released in 2009 only in Japan, after the death of original drummer Munetaka Higuchi, whose pre-recorded drum tracks were used on this album. [1] It was also 15th and last album recorded by the original line-up.
Tom Leadon, a singer and guitarist best known for co-founding the band Mudcrutch with Tom Petty in the early ’70s and participating in a high-profile reunion beginning in 2008, died March 22 at ...
Masaki Yamada (山田 雅樹, Yamada Masaki, born 1964) is a Japanese singer, guitarist and bassist known for being the frontman of EZO from 1986 to 1991 and Loudness from 1992 to 2000. He currently plays bass and sings duet and backing vocals, with occasional guitar in the New York City -based band FiRESiGN. [ 1 ]