Ghetto Machine

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Ghetto Machine
Loudness ghetto machine.jpg
Studio album by
Loudness
ReleasedJuly 7, 1997
Recorded Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, California
TML Studios, Hayward, California, USA
February–March 1997
ESP Rehearsal Studio, December 1995 (track 7)
Genre Heavy metal, speed metal, groove metal
Length50:44
Label Rooms
Producer Akira Takasaki, Masao Nakajima
Loudness chronology
Loud 'n' Raw
(1995)		Ghetto Machine
(1997)		 Dragon
(1998)

Ghetto Machine is the twelfth studio album by the Japanese heavy metal band Loudness. It was released in 1997 only in Japan and recorded at the famous Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, California. This was the first album to feature bassist Naoto Shibata. Only the instrumental "Katmandu Fly" was recorded in 1995 at ESP Guitars rehearsal studio. [1]

Album collection of recorded music, words, sounds

An album is a collection of audio recordings issued as a collection on compact disc (CD), vinyl, audio tape, or another medium. Albums of recorded music were developed in the early 20th century as individual 78-rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP records played at ​33 1⁄3 rpm. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The audio cassette was a format widely used alongside vinyl from the 1970s into the first decade of the 2000s.

Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom. With roots in blues rock, psychedelic rock, and acid rock, the bands that created heavy metal developed a thick, massive sound, characterized by highly amplified distortion, extended guitar solos, emphatic beats, and overall loudness. The genre's lyrics and performance styles are sometimes associated with aggression and machismo.

Loudness (band) Japanese heavy metal band

Loudness is a Japanese heavy metal band formed in 1981 by guitarist Akira Takasaki and drummer Munetaka Higuchi. They were the first Japanese metal act signed to a major label in the United States, releasing twenty-six studio albums and nine live albums by 2014 and reaching the Billboard Top 100 in their moment of maximum international popularity, as well as charting on Oricon dozens of times. Despite numerous changes in their roster, with Takasaki the sole constant member, the band continued their activities throughout the 1990s, finally reuniting the original line-up in 2001. This incarnation released a further seven albums until November 30, 2008, when original drummer Munetaka Higuchi died from liver cancer at a hospital in Osaka at age 49. He was replaced with Masayuki Suzuki.

Contents

Track listing

All music by Akira Takasaki. Lyrics by Masaki Yamada, except songs 1,2,3,6 by Yamada and Stephan Galfas and song 4 by Kayla Ritt and Stephan Galfas

Akira Takasaki Japanese musician

Akira Takasaki is a Japanese musician and songwriter. He is best known as the lead guitarist and sole constant member of the heavy metal band Loudness. He is also the guitarist of the band Lazy, with which he first rose to prominence in the 1970s.

Masaki Yamada is a Japanese singer, songwriter, guitarist and bassist known for being the frontman of EZO from 1986 to 1991 and Loudness from 1992 to 2000. He currently plays bass and sings duet and backing vocals, with occasional guitar in the New York City-based band FiRESiGN. He was vocally trained by Donald Lawrence, and moved to New York City in 1986. He has a daughter, born in 1992.

Stephan Galfas is a music producer, currently CEO of International Talent Organization, Inc. and Miss Molly Records.

  1. "Ghetto Machine" - 4:04 [2]
  2. "Slave" - 3:17
  3. "Evil Ecstasy" - 4:10
  4. "San Francisco" - 4:10
  5. "Love and Hate" - 6:41
  6. "Creatures" - 5:30
  7. "Katmandu Fly" (instrumental) - 1:14
  8. "Hypnotized" - 4:44
  9. "Dead Man Walking" - 4:45
  10. "Jasmine Sky" - 5:47
  11. "Wonder Man" - 5:54

Personnel

Loudness
Production

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References

  1. ↑ "Loudness:Discography:Ghetto Machine (1997)". Takasaki.net. Retrieved 2010-03-30.
  2. ↑ "Loudness - Ghetto Machine (1997)". Metal-Archives.com. Retrieved 2010-03-30.
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