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Year : 2020 (Japan Edition)
Style : Heavy Metal , Hard Rock
Country : United Kingdom
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 132 mb
Bio:
Tokyo Blade is an English heavy metal band, active since 1982.Tokyo Blade is one of the many acts considered part of the new wave of British heavy metal (NWOBHM) movement from the late 1970s / early 1980s. Tokyo Blade went through many changes of formation and disbanded twice, often changing their musical style during the years of activity. However, the band is still active today, with three of the original members in the line-up.The band was formed in Salisbury in the late 1970s under the moniker White Diamond later changed to Killer in 1981 and then changed again to Genghis Khan.The original line-up consisted of Alan Marsh (vocals), Andy Boulton (guitar), Ray Dismore (guitar), Andy Robbins (bass), and Steve Pierce (drums). Later in the year, the band changed their name again, signed with the British independent record label Powerstation Records and recorded their first album. This album was self-titled in all regions, except in the United States, where it came out as Midnight Rendezvous on the Combat Records label. Also in 1981, the band shared the stages of clubs and festivals with notable acts such as Metallica and Venom.Like many other acts of the period, Tokyo Blade was plagued by frequent changes of band members. By the time the follow-up album was released, vocalist Alan Marsh was replaced with Vic Wright. The album Night of the Blade was issued in 1984 with Wright on vocals. However, in 1998, an edition of the album featuring Marsh's original vocals was eventually released as Night of the Blade... The Night Before. In that period, Tokyo Blade took part in tours and festival packages with Blue Öyster Cult and others with Dio, Ozzy Osbourne and Scorpions. The band's third record Black Hearts & Jaded Spades was released in 1985 by the band's own label in Europe and available in the USA as an import only. The band filmed a concert at London's Camden Palace, which was aired on Channel 4 in 1985, and has since made its way on to multiple bootleg DVD releases. By the end of the year, Tokyo Blade disbanded, with all members dedicating their time and efforts to other projects.
Album:
At-times superb return from one of Brit metal's most unsung bands...Those of us who grew up in the UK a little too late to truly be a part of the NWoBHM had our own bands that we revered just as much as the big names of the movement. Bands that came to national recognition a little after the NWoBHM storm had blown out but which now always seem to have that tag applied to them if they’ve managed to weather the intervening thirty five-plus years. For me, growing up just outside Cardiff in the mid eighties, ‘my’ bands were Persian Risk, Rankelson and… Tokyo Blade.Tokyo Blade’s debut album is the great unsung classic of eighties Brit metal. To my mind, and with all due respect to all concerned, it’s better than anything more lauded bands like Grim Reaper managed to come up with, an album that tempered the blazing twin guitar assault of Maiden with the melodic radio-rock sensibilities of Leppard and Priest at thier poppiest. But, stuck on no-hope label Powerstation, the band got mired in the usual record company/management bullshit seemingly so prevalent at that time. They made an ill-fated stab at full-on spandex clad jester metal then limped to the wayside, overtaken by other Brit metal hopefuls like Marshall Law and Wolfsbane.Founder member and guitarist Andy Boulton has kept the flag flying with an ever-changing cast of supporting actors (largely other NWoBHM survivors, but also, interestingly, an American version of the band which played extensively at the end of the last decade) and so here we are in 2020 – and he’s back with four fifths of the lineup that recorded that storied debut! Will those of us who’ve waited patiently for the stars to align for this band one more time be rewarded with something to rival the class of that debut?Of course not. Because, whilst the band is back, hungry, lean and firing on all cylinders, this isn’t the early eighties, no matter how much all of us wish it was. It’s 2020, the world has moved on, and so, it would seem, has Tokyo Blade. That’s a good thing in places – this new album is produced beautifully, retaining the band’s signature heaviness yet sounding thoroughly modern, whilst vocalist Alan Marsh has perfected his craft and used his experience well; gone is the reedy, occasionally nasal warble of yore, replaced by a full throated heavy metal roar that suits the music perfectly. But it’s also undeniable that the reckless enthusiasm of youth has been supplanted in places by a reliance on craft where before a few chances might have been taken, the odd bare-faced piece of theft acknowledged, slips in the studio let through to the keeper in the name of retaining ‘the spirit’ of the band. There are just a few too many moments on Dark Revolution that are workmanlike rather than virtuoso to make this a true, out-and-out classic.Strangely enough, most of these moments occur early on in the running order. Story of a Nobody really is too nondescript a song to kick things off; Burning Rain has it’s moments but outstays it’s welcome at over six minutes in length. However as the album warms up so does the band, and the back end of the record is loaded with latter day Blade classics-in-the-making. Both Boulton and guitar partner John Wiggins are in fine form, and the rhythm section (drummer Steve Pierce and bassist Andy Wrighton), though not given much in the way of starring roles both perform their roles with the requisite amount of oomph. Songs like Crack In The Glass, the more melodic Perfect Enemy, Not Lay Down and Die and closer Voices of the Damned are all roof-raising crackers, with that distinctly Brit metal style the band made their own in 1983 thoroughly re-installed and blazing. Indeed if it’s a first album dead ringer you’re looking for, then look no further than the rattling The Fastest Gun in Town, which could easily have been written in that halcyon age long ago… Some of Marsh’s lyrics are pretty nifty too – you often get a whiff of prime time Phil Lynott in the stories he weaves – with the result being an album that, despite giving up it’s secrets slowly, is going to be looked at as one of the band’s best in years to come. Great work, and well worth a listen!
Line-Up:
Alan Marsh - Vocals (1982-1984, 1990-1991, 1995-1996, 2017-present) - See also: ex-Genghis Khan, ex-Killer, ex-Hard Venom, ex-Shogun
Andy Boulton - Guitars (1982-1986, 1987, 1995-1996, 2007-present) - See also: ex-Killer, ex-Genghis Khan
John Wiggins - Guitars (1983-1986, 1994-1996, 2010-present) - See also: ex-Battlezone, ex-Deep Machine, ex-Black Friday
Andy Wrighton - Bass (1984-1986, 2010-present) - See also: ex-The Deep, ex-Deep Machine, ex-Shogun
Steve Pierce - Drums (1982-1986, 1987, 2010-present) - See also: ex-Genghis Khan, ex-Killer, ex-Rebel Academy, ex-Shogun, ex-Tigertailz
Production:
Recorded and Mixed: Andy Boulton at MFR Studio, Salisbury, UK
Mastered: Gwyn Mathias
Tracklist:
01. Story of a Nobody
02. Burning Rain
03. Dark Revolution
04. The Fastest Gun in Town
05. Truth Is a Hunter
06. Crack in the Glass
07. Perfect Enemy
08. See You Down in Hell
09. The Lights of Soho
10. Not Lay Down and Die
11. Voices of the Damned
12. Under Black Moonlight (Japan Bonus Track)
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