Seven Hills (Album)
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Seven Hills is Japanese heavy metal
band Anthem
's second studio album since their reformation in the year 2000. This album sees the reunion of the original line-up, including vocalist Eizo Sakamoto
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Seven Hills showcased an entirely new musical direction for the band, although still stuck firmly in 80s' 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...
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...
's second studio album since their reformation in the year 2000. This album sees the reunion of the original line-up, including vocalist Eizo Sakamoto
Eizo Sakamoto
is a Japanese heavy metal musician who was born in Nishinomiya, Hyōgo Prefecture. He is most famous for being the lead vocalist of 1980s band Anthem. In the 1990s he started up the band Animetal which performed heavy metal covers of anime and tokusatsu opening and closing themes. He also was...
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Seven Hills showcased an entirely new musical direction for the band, although still stuck firmly in 80s' heavy metal.
Track listing
- "Grieve of Heart" (Shibata) - 4:13
- "Raging Twister" (Sakamoto, Shibata) - 4:17
- "XTC" (Shibata) - 4:35
- "The Man with No Name" (Shibata) - 4:46
- "March to the Madness" (Sakamoto, Shibata) - 5:08
- "D.I.M. 422" (Shimizu) - 3:21
- "Running Blood" (Sakamoto, Shibata) - 5:39
- "Freedom" (Shibata) - 4:38
- "Silently and Perfectly" (Shibata) - 5:58
- "The Innocent Man" (Shibata) - 4:44
Band members
- Eizo SakamotoEizo Sakamotois a Japanese heavy metal musician who was born in Nishinomiya, Hyōgo Prefecture. He is most famous for being the lead vocalist of 1980s band Anthem. In the 1990s he started up the band Animetal which performed heavy metal covers of anime and tokusatsu opening and closing themes. He also was...
- vocals - Akio Shimizu - guitars
- Naoto Shibata - bass, producer
- Hirotsugu Homma - drums
Production
- Dan McClendon - engineer, mixing
- Andy Martin - assistant engineer
- George Azuma - supervisor