Tokyo Blade (album)
Appearance
Tokyo Blade | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | 1983 | |||
Recorded | Wickham Studios, Rooster Studios, Cave Studios, Bristol, UK, 1983 | |||
Genre | Heavy metal | |||
Length | 43:52 | |||
Label | Powerstation Records | |||
Producer | Kevin D. Nixon, Andy Allen | |||
Tokyo Blade chronology | ||||
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Singles from Tokyo Blade | ||||
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [1] |
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal | 7/10[2] |
Metal Forces | 9/10[3] |
Tokyo Blade is the debut album by English heavy metal band Tokyo Blade. It was originally released in 1983 and reissued by High Vaultage Records in a remastered edition on CD in 1997, including all the 4 tracks from the 1984 Midnight Rendezvous EP, which actually were recorded in early 1983 while the band was called Genghis Khan plus "Death On Main Street" which was originally the b-side on "Powergame" 7" and recorded at the same sessions as the album.[4]
Track listings
- Side one
- "Powergame" (Andy Boulton, Al Marsh) - 4:12
- "Break the Chains" (Boulton, Marsh, John Wiggins) - 5:07
- "If Heaven Is Hell" (Boulton, Marsh) - 6:04
- "On Through the Night" (Boulton, Marsh) - 7:29
- Side two
- "Killer City" (Boulton, Marsh) - 5:47
- "Liar" (Boulton, Marsh) - 5:37
- "Tonight" (Russ Ballard) - 4:02
- "Sunrise in Tokyo" (Boulton, Marsh) - 5:47
- "Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia" - 1:13
1997 remastered edition
- "Powergame" - 4:12
- "Break the Chains" - 5:07
- "If Heaven Is Hell" - 6:04
- "On Through the Night" - 7:29
- "Killer City" - 5:47
- "Liar" - 5:37
- "Tonight" - 4:02
- "Sunrise in Tokyo" - 5:47
- "Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia" - 1:13
- "If Heaven Is Hell" - 6:00
- "Highway Passion" - 4:24
- "Midnight Rendezvous" - 3:22
- "Mean Streak" - 4:44
- "Death on Main Street" - 4:38
Personnel
Tokyo Blade
- Alan Marsh - lead vocals
- Andy Boulton - guitar
- John Wiggins - guitar (except tracks 3, 10-13)
- Andy Robbins - bass guitar
- Steve Pierce - drums
Additional musicians
- Ray Dismore - guitar on tracks 3,10-13.
Production
- Kevin D. Nixon - producer
- Ralph Jezzard - engineer
- Tony Spath - mixing
- Andy Allen - producer, engineer and mixing of tracks 3, 10-13.
References
- ^ Rivadavia, Eduardo. "Tokyo Blade Tokyo Blade review". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 14 July 2011.
- ^ Popoff, Martin (1 November 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. pp. 358–359. ISBN 978-1894959315.
- ^ Doe, Bernard (1983). "Tokyo Blade - Tokyo Blade". Metal Forces (2). Retrieved 1 July 2012.
- ^ "Tokyo Blade - Tokyo Blade". Encyclopaedia Metallum. Retrieved 30 March 2010.