is a Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese heavy metal

Heavy metal music

Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...

 musician

Musician

A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....

 who was born in Nishinomiya

Nishinomiya, Hyogo

is a city located in Hyōgo, Japan, between the cities of Ōsaka and Kōbe. On April 1, 2005, the city of Nishinomiya celebrated its 80th anniversary. It is best known as the home of Kōshien Stadium, where the Hanshin Tigers baseball team plays home games and where Japan's annual high school baseball...

, Hyōgo Prefecture

Hyogo Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region on Honshū island. The capital is Kobe.The prefecture's name was previously alternately spelled as Hiogo.- History :...

. He is most famous for being the lead vocalist of 1980s band Anthem

Anthem (band)

is a Japanese heavy metal band that was formed during the early 1980s in Tokyo. They are among the handful of heavy metal bands founded in Japan during that time and are considered to be one of the most successful and influential, alongside Loudness and Earthshaker.-Early years :Anthem was founded...

. In the 1990s he started up the band Animetal

Animetal

was a Japanese novelty heavy metal band who specialized in metal covers of theme songs from classic and modern Japanese anime and tokusatsu television series....

 which performed heavy metal covers of anime

Anime

is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....

 and tokusatsu

Tokusatsu

is a Japanese term that applies to any live-action film or television drama that usually features superheroes and makes considerable use of special effects ....

 opening and closing themes. He also was involved with the anison "supergroup" JAM Project

JAM Project

JAM Project is an anime music genre "supergroup" based in Japan, originally founded on July 19, 2000 by famous 1970s theme song artist Ichirou Mizuki...

 before reuniting with Anthem. Sakamoto has since begun a new project called Eizo Japan which is a revived Animetal-like project with more heavy metal covers of theme songs that were released after Animetal's disbanding, existed during Animetal's activity but were never covered, and covers of Animetal's covers and original compositions.

Albums

As Eizo Sakamoto with Bunkyo Gakudan

• Another Face - 1998

As Eizo Sakamoto - 2000

• Shout Drunker - 2002 - 2003 - 2006
• CRYING STARS - ~STAND PROUD!~ (Guest vocals on two songs of the Syu
  Syu
  is a Japanese musician, best known as leader and guitarist of metal band Galneryus. But also performs guitar and lead vocals in Spinalcord , and was formerly a member of Animetal. On September 29, 2010 he released a cover album named Crying Stars -Stand Proud!-, covering songs from Scorpions,...
  
  's cover album) - 2010

As Eizo Japan

• Eizo Japan 1 - August 26, 2009
• Eizo Japan 2 - December 2, 2009
• Eizo Japan 3 - August 25, 2010 - October 20, 2010

External links

• EizoSakamoto.net - Official website
• Official MySpace
• Eizo Japan's official site
• Eizo Japan at HearJapan