Tokyo Blade (album)

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Source	Rating
AllMusic
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal	7/10
Metal Forces	9/10

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.

Track listings

Side one

1. "Powergame" (Andy Boulton, Al Marsh) - 4:12
2. "Break the Chains" (Boulton, Marsh, John Wiggins) - 5:07
3. "If Heaven Is Hell" (Boulton, Marsh) - 6:04
4. "On Through the Night" (Boulton, Marsh) - 7:29

Side two

5. "Killer City" (Boulton, Marsh) - 5:47
6. "Liar" (Boulton, Marsh) - 5:37
7. "Tonight" (Russ Ballard) - 4:02
8. "Sunrise in Tokyo" (Boulton, Marsh) - 5:47
9. "Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia" - 1:13

1997 remastered edition

1. "Powergame" - 4:12
2. "Break the Chains" - 5:07
3. "If Heaven Is Hell" - 6:04
4. "On Through the Night" - 7:29
5. "Killer City" - 5:47
6. "Liar" - 5:37
7. "Tonight" - 4:02
8. "Sunrise in Tokyo" - 5:47
9. "Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia" - 1:13
10. "If Heaven Is Hell" - 6:00
11. "Highway Passion" - 4:24
12. "Midnight Rendezvous" - 3:22
13. "Mean Streak" - 4:44
14. "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.