Artist: Earthshaker
Genre(s):
Other
Rock
Discography:
Passion
Year: 1985
Tracks: 9
Earthshaker
Year: 1983
Tracks: 9
Midnight Flight
Year:
Tracks: 8
Although they cannot claim to be the well-nigh successful of '80s Japanese heavy metal bands (non by a long shot, that would hold to be Loudness), Earthshaker could well be the well-nigh stable, having retained the same effect lineup of isaac M. Singer Masafumi Nishida, guitar player Shinichiro Ishihara, bassist Takayuki Kai, and drummer Yoshihiro Kudo throughout their two-decade-plus macrocosm -- no base effort. Taking their make from the legendary Y&T album (just a blip on the U.S. radiolocation, simply an absolute smash in Japan), Earthshaker achieved some small credit in the West thanks to their splendid eponymic debut of 1983 (which they recorded while residing in San Francisco, with none other than Iron Maiden guitar player Adrian Smith performing as producer) and, to a lesser grade, 1984's Fugitive (featuring future soft rock and roll manufacturer Mitchell Froom on keyboards!). But subsequent efforts Midnight Flight (1985) and Passion (1986) grew more and more unfocussed and fraught with ill-advised commercial aspirations, so that, following the same year's mandatory Live in Budokan LP, Earthshaker decided to simply cut the West and focus on being successful in their country of origin. Which they sure as shooting did, enjoying a strand of successful albums in old age to come (including 1987's Aftershock, 1989's Treachery, and 1993's Real, to make simply trine) until going away their separate ways in 1994, piece Ishihara focused on his parallel J-metal supergroup Sly, with Blizzard bassist Koichi Terasawa and ousted Loudness members, vocaliser Minoru Niihara and drummer Munetaka Higuchi, to the tune of four successful albums. However, popular demand and their 20th anniversary punctually reunited Earthshaker for 2001's capably titled Birthday, with additional studio albums (now song largely in their native Japanese) next well-nigh on a annual basis.
