531 - Loudness Heavy Chains 1985

Takasaki's Eddie Van Halen-inspired guitar heroics, Loudness immediately scored local success with their first three albums, which were sung entirely in Japanese. But it wasn't until the release of their first live album, Live-Loud-Alive, and fourth studio effort Disillusion that the group attracted any significant attention outside their homeland, eventually issuing an English version of Disillusion. "Thunder in the East" was originally released in 1985 and reissued in 2003. It contains this classic "Heavy Chains", with a great Takasaki solo and the charismatic vocals of Niihara.