Holy Expedition

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Holy Expedition
200px-Bow Wow Holy Expedition UK.jpg
Live album by Bow Wow
Released July 21, 1983
Recorded May 9, 1983
Venue The Marquee, London, UK
Genre Heavy metal
Length42:19
Label Vap (Japan)
Heavy Metal Worldwide (UK)
Roadrunner (Europe)
Producer Bow Wow
Bow Wow chronology
Warning from Stardust
(1982)
Holy Expedition
(1983)
Beat of Metal Motion
(1984)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal 5/10 [1]
Metal Forces 5/10 [2]

Holy Expedition is the second live album by Japanese heavy metal band Bow Wow.

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.

Bow Wow is an influential Japanese rock band formed in 1975 by Kyoji Yamamoto. They were one of the first Japanese metal bands. In 1984 they renamed themselves to Vow Wow, recruited vocalist Genki Hitomi and adopted a mainstream sound. Kyoji was invited to record with the supergroup Phenomena in 1987, there he met former Whitesnake bassist Neil Murray who later joined Vow Wow.

Contents

Track listing

Side one
  1. "Getting Back on the Road" - 5:05
  2. "You're Mine" - 3:37
  3. "Touch Me, I'm on Fire" - 4:57
  4. "Can't Get Back to You" - 9:18
Side two
  1. "Don't Cry Baby" - 4:00
  2. "20th Century Child" - 4:45
  3. "Devil Woman" - 3:33
  4. "Theme of Bow Wow" - 7:00

Personnel

Kyoji Yamamoto is a Japanese musician, singer-songwriter and record producer who is the leader of the hard rock/heavy metal bands Bow Wow and Wild Flag. He is known for his skillful guitar playing, with former bandmate Neil Murray calling him one of the top Japanese guitarists, and was one of the first hard rock guitarist to use the tapping technique.

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References

  1. Popoff, Martin (1 November 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 59. ISBN   978-1894959315.
  2. Doe, Bernard (August 1983). "Bow Wow - Holy Expedition". Metal Forces (1): 21. Retrieved 2015-07-03.