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Released
  
September 14, 2011

Eve to Dawn (2011)
  
2・0・1・2 (2012)

Release date
  
14 September 2011

Length
  
53:49

Artist
  
Loudness

Label
  
Entertainment One Music

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Recorded
  
December 2010–August 2011

Studio
  
Osaka School of Music, Japan

Producer
  
Loudness, Masahiro Shinoki, Shunji Inoue

Genres
  
Heavy metal, Progressive metal

Similar
  
Loudness albums, Heavy metal albums

Eve to Dawn (旭日昇天, Kyokujitsu shōten) is the twenty-fourth studio album by Japanese heavy metal band Loudness, released on September 14, 2011. The album reached number 36 on the Oricon chart.

Contents

In an interview, guitarist Akira Takasaki described the album as more "aggressive" than King of Pain. Saying, the previous album was focused on featuring drummer Masayuki Suzuki, but that Eve to Dawn would be guitar driven. Singer Minoru Niihara said that the lyrics has a more positive vibe than in previous releseas because of the impact of the Great East Japan earthquake and the instrumental "A Light in the Dark" was dedicated by Takasaki to that tragic event.

Regarding the album title "Eve to Dawn", 'Eve' was added due to the fact that Loudness celebrated the 30th anniversary of their debut album The Birthday Eve and that the late Munetaka Higuchi's birthday was on Christmas Eve, 'Dawn' has the double meaning of a new start towards the world, as well as the rising sun of Japan.

Loudness survivor eve to dawn 2011


Track listing

All lyrics by Minoru Niihara, English lyrics co-written by Takashi Kanazawa. All music by Akira Takasaki, except track 4 by Masayuki Suzuki and track 5 by Masayoshi Yamashita.

  1. "A Light in the Dark" (instrumental) - 1:46
  2. "The Power of Truth" - 5:27
  3. "Come Alive Again" - 4:25
  4. "Survivor" - 5:44
  5. "Keep You Burning" - 5:16
  6. "Gonna Do It My Way" - 4:12
  7. "Hang Tough" - 5:54
  8. "Kidoairaku" (喜怒哀楽) (instrumental) - 6:21
  9. "Comes the Dawn" - 7:04
  10. "Pandora" - 4:17
  11. "Crazy! Crazy! Crazy!" - 3:23

Personnel

Loudness
  • Minoru Niihara – vocals
  • Akira Takasaki – guitars, keyboards, vocals on track 5
  • Masayoshi Yamashita – bass
  • Masayuki Suzuki – drums
  • Production
  • Masatoshi Sakimoto - engineer, mixing at Freedom Studio, Tokyo
  • Takeru Maeyama, Takuya Wada - assistant engineers
  • Manfred Melchior - mastering at MM Sound, Steinhagen, Germany
  • Hirose Shiraishi - supervisor
  • Masahiro Shinoki, Shunji Inoue - executive producers
  • Songs

    1A Light In The Dark1:47
    2The Power Of Truth5:28
    3Come Alive Again4:26

    References

    Eve to Dawn Wikipedia